Top5 reportedly begins recovery journey after surgery, confirms DJ Akademiks following UK attack

DJ Akademiks is opening up about Top5’s surgery and road to recovery.

The internet personality has reportedly offered concerned fans a lengthy update on Top5 after he was stabbed a few days ago while in the UK. He revealed that the latter has already undergone surgery and is currently recuperating.

"Top5 is good," Ak said in an Instagram livestream. "He has like a big laceration. It was kinda deep. He lost a lot of blood. He went through the surgery and he's gonna have a full recovery. It's gonna take a little while, but yeah. I think he said it's like 17 inches. I ain't gonna lie to you. For what it's worth, somebody definitely tried to kill him."

He then addressed the rampant rumors online, referring to the video that is going viral, where several men can be seen hounding a car as they vandalized it. They appear to be assaulting someone inside, and fans have since begun speculating that the person in question was the rapper.

"There's mad rumors and fake stuff about it. That video is not real. That video where they're saying that's Top5, that's not Top5. He told me he was at this afterparty spot and felt like people followed him, he was taking a picture with a fan while he was going into the club, because I asked him where his homies were at. He was like, 'I was with 20 people, I get to the spot. I get there earlier than them, I'm walking in the spot, I think they're already there so really, I'm alone.' And then, he goes to take a picture with someone and somebody kinda ran up on him."

The streamer then refuted the notion that the incident had anything to do with the UK, as he said:

"I'ma throw the allegedly on there because I know people like running with false things, but this has got nothing to do with the U.K. Respectfully, it did happen in the U.K., but it's got nothing to do with the U.K... It's some whole other sh*t."

What we know about Top5's brutal stabbing after he came to London to support his friend Drake:

Top5, a Toronto-based rapper whose real name is Hassan Ali, was in London on the night of his accident. He had traveled there to watch his friend Drake’s headlining performance at the Wireless Festival over the weekend.

Reports have suggested that the rapper was mingling with fans right outside the festival venue when a man in a mask approached and stabbed him in the neck. The incident caused widespread chaos, and the rapper was subsequently rushed to the hospital for treatment.

The Free Press Journal has reported that no major arteries were damaged in the stabbing, and the musician is currently on the mend. Top5 and his team have yet to issue a statement, though local law enforcement officials are looking into the matter. However, as of this writing, the motive remains unclear.

Hours before he was stabbed, the 26-year-old Somali-Canadian took to a livestream where he allegedly said, “There is no real killers in London.”

As for Drake, it was his first headlining performance at a full-fledged UK show. He had signed a several-million-pound deal to top the bill for all three nights of the festival. During one of his performances, as reported by Metro UK, the 38-year-old said that London MCs were the “best lyricists in the world.”

‘No disrespect to America, but nobody in the world can out-rap London rappers,’ he said, adding: ‘This is the highest level – this is what I aspire to be.’

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