Rapper Dappy 'threatens to shoot business associates' in row over £580,000 cash

23 September 2023 , 19:21

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Dappy onstage (Image: Redferns)

Rap star Dappy has shocked fans by posting a web message apparently ­threatening to shoot his business associates over a cash row.

In a rant on Instagram, the 36-year-old – who became a household name in N-Dubz – claimed he had been left £580,000 out of pocket. Dappy posted a gun emoji and wrote: “If anyone owed me even just a pinky [£50] on da roads I’d bunnn dem.” The word “bun” is street slang for firing a gun.

Dappy named an agent and a management firm, and said: “These funny looking fed c***s think they can just rob me like this and that’s mad. Watch [when] I actually see one of you.” Dappy formed N-Dubz with his cousin, Tulisa Contostavlos, and rapper Richard ‘Fazer’ Rawson.

Dappy with Tulisa and Fazer in N-Dubz (Getty Images)

The group took its name from the NW postcode of their home in London’s Camden. The group had several hits including Playing with Fire and I Need You. Dappy’s outburst comes after N-Dubz released a new album last month. Former Big Brother contestant Dappy, who has 377,000 Insta followers, has had a chequered past of violent crime.

In 2017, he was spared jail after ­brandishing a butcher’s knife during a row with his partner. The people named in Dappy’s post did not respond to requests for comment last night.

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