The person who allegedly attacked Dave Chappelle on stage on the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday evening has reportedly been recognized.
In keeping with Individuals, who was among the many first to verify the alleged attacker’s id, 23-year-old Isaiah Lee has been charged with felony assault with a lethal weapon for his obvious assault on Chappelle on the celebrity’s comedy present in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
In fact, as we beforehand reported, the Chappelle’s Present alum was very publicly tackled on stage in entrance of his viewers by a person purportedly carrying a pretend gun with some sort of knife attachment. Now, Lee is being held on a $30,000 bond within the custody of LAPD’s Hollywood Division whereas police proceed to research.
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In keeping with The Each day Beast, Lee is allegedly an aspiring rapper who goes by the stage identify NoName Trapper. That’s distinctive sufficient by itself, but it surely will get much more surreal from there: the outlet additional claims that the wannabe-rapper launched a tune referred to as Dave Chappell (sure, with out the ‘e’ on the finish) again in June of 2020.
At first pay attention, the 2-minute-long tune doesn’t seem to include any lyrics in regards to the comic, or something. Nevertheless, a YouTube channel on which the aspiring performer uploaded the observe exhibits a person — who seems to presumably be Lee — standing on prime of an LAPD sport utility car whereas holding up each center fingers.
You’ll be able to see that pic, and listen to the complete tune Dave Chappell, within the YouTube embed from June 2020 (beneath):
Oooookay…
Individuals on social media are clearly discovering the video now as extra is being uncovered in regards to the alleged attacker. Individuals famous on Wednesday that the YouTube clip had acquired greater than 14,000 views; later within the evening it was already nearing 35,000 whole views. The rap hopeful seems to have launched practically a dozen different songs in the identical June 2020 “Resorts” playlist together with this observe named after the world-famous comic, too.
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Along with the obvious YouTube exercise, The Each day Beast and others additionally uncovered a doable Instagram account related to the alleged attacker. It’s listed below the identical rap identify, however is unverified and has little or no public exercise on it to associate with no present posts. It has practically 40,000 followers as of Wednesday night, as nicely.
Additionally, that alleged IG account belonging to Lee (which you’ll be able to see for your self HERE) follows 80 accounts in whole on the social media web site — together with comic Dave Chappelle’s official, verified account. Rattling!
It’ll actually be fascinating to see what else comes out about this unlucky scenario.
We’re simply glad Dave was not critically damage. Thank goodness for that!
[Image via Netflix/YouTube]
