HUNDREDS of music fans ran in terror from Kentish Town’s Forum on Sunday night after a shooting in the middle of a gig by controversial US gangster rapper Jadakiss.
The shooting – the second in three weeks in Camden – left a teenage audience member in need of urgent hospital attention to remove a bullet from his leg.
It came less than a week after the New York rapper appeared in an American court on gun and drug charges of his own.
The show was hastily abandoned amid scenes of pandemonium as the handgun shot rang out in the middle of Jadakiss’s set.
An argument between the 18-year-old victim and a group of older men is believed to have sparked the violence. The victim was treated in hospital and later released.
Jadakiss (pictured) has had a public feud with the better-known rapper 50 Cent and narrowly escaped an attempt on his life in March, while his violence-strewn songs like I’m A Gangsta and Shoot Out include the lyrics: “Treat my guns like my dogs, let ’em bark all day” and: “A gun, a knife, a bat, a brick, anything I can get my hands on…call my bluff, start acting up, and I’ll leave you underground.”
A spokesman for Jadakiss at Polydor Records yesterday (Wednesday) refused to comment.
Forum owners Mean Fiddler also refused to comment beyond a confirmation that police are investigating an incident.
Police arrested a 25-year-old at the scene and later bailed him.
But they are still appealing for witnesses to come forward.
A police spokesman said: “A lot of people were obviously in a hurry to get out of the club but they may have seen something before they left and we would urge them to contact us if that is the case.”
Officers from Operation Trident, the Metropolitan Police’s black-on-black gun crime unit, are now investigating.