LONDON BLOODBATH: Victim of latest London stabbing is drill rapper Incognito
A FAMOUS rapper is the victim of the latest fatal stabbing after an attack in London on Wednesday evening - as a crimewave continues to grip the capital.
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Incognito, whose real name is Saddique, was stabbed in Warham Street, Camberwell at 7.20pm last night.
The musician was part of a drill music group called Moscow17 and was well-known in the London's underground rap music scene.
The 23-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after being knifed together with two other people.
The other casualties of the stabbing were taken to hospital with the help of the London Air Ambulance.
Authorities haven't yet disclosed their health conditions.
Just hours after his death, Moscow17 paid tribute to Incognito on social media.
The group wrote on Twitter: "RIP Incognito.
"Today we have taken a very sad loss in our member @SK017_/Incognito, we ask for all prayers be directed towards him & his family."
Incognito was killed on the same street his friend and bandmate Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was gunned down in May.
Barton's mother, Pretana Morgan, appealed for the wave of violence in the capital to end.
She said: "You better wake up, you all have one life. One life you got, you better make use of it.
"All the children out there that got sense, for my son's sake, please get out of this foolishness."
Last month Incognito said to be still shocked by the death of his friend.
In an interview to YouTube programme Link Up TV's No Offence, he said: "I’m in shock still. I don’t believe it’s happened. It feels like he’s on a holiday. I don’t believe he’s dead."
Incognito and Barton's preferred rap genre was drill, a style originated in south Chicago, US, characterised by dark and grim lyrics and ominous music.
Despite admitting that the genre is leading to violence, he also blamed the rising level of crime on politicians, who gave youth a lack of options.
He said: “With the crime that’s happening right now, music does influence. You’ve got to put your hands up and say drill music does influence it, but knife crime and gun crime has been happening before drill music.
“Obviously it’s gone up by a certain percentage, and yeah it could be music, it could be the weed, it could be girls, it could be many reasons.
"But because people want to use an excuse now… the government can’t solve the problem, and there’s many ways to solve it.
“You can bring out youth clubs, you can invest money into other things to help the community, but you don’t want to do that, you just want to use an excuse - it’s drill music, it’s black boy drill music."
Two men have been arrested close to the scene on suspicion of murder and are currently in custody.
A police cordon is still in place around the area interested by the stabbing.
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Upon the attack, a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: “Three men were found with stab wounds.
"Despite the best efforts of medical staff, one of the men, died at the scene.
“Officers are in the process of informing his next-of-kin.
“The two other males have been taken to hospital where we await updates on their conditions.”
In London alone, at least 51 people have been fatally stabbed since the beginning of the year, and a total of 1,296 episodes have been recorded by the Met Police from January up to the end of April.