Councilmember Yusef Salaam on Fat Man Scoop's Harlem roots and personal significance
Councilmember Yusef Salaam introduces Resolution 371, describing it as deeply personal. He recounts Fat Man Scoop's Harlem roots, his education at Cardinal Hayes and NYIT, and his unmistakable voice and energy.
Thank you, Deputy Speaker.
William, Dr.
Williams.
I like to say that.
You know, there are resolutions that come before this body that are procedural.
And then there are ones that feel very, very personal.
This one is very, very, very personal.
Isaac Freeman III, better known as Fat Man Scoop, was a child of Harlem, born in Manhattan, raised right here in the very community that I'm honored to represent.
He graduated from Cardinal Hayes, attended New York Institute of Technology, and then gave the world something that no degree
could have ever taught him.
That voice, that energy, that unmistakable ability to make the room full of strangers feel like one.