NYC rapper Buckshot attacked by trio of thugs in Brooklyn

A trio of assailants associated with a criminal squatter pistol-whipped iconic Brooklyn rapper Buckshot while “trying to Tupachim, said the musician.

The rapper was seriously injured and hospitalized after the Oct. 28 assault, in which a gang of thugs attacked him near an East Flatbush building he owns.

The member of rap supergroup Boot Camp Clik was attacked on East 51st Street shortly before 5 p.m. The NYPD investigates the gang attack.

The violent incident left him with a concussion, a broken nose and knots on his forehead, Buckshot, 49, told The Post exclusively.

“There were at least three boys. They pistol-whipped me twice. I still have a lump on the back of my head,” said the rapper, who left the hospital on Friday and was recovering.

Disturbing footage of the aftermath of the attack, filmed by passersby and widely circulated on social media, shows a bloodied Buckshot on the ground, struggling to get up.

In the clip, he can be heard asking for an ambulance while holding his swollen, welting head.

The “Who Got the Props” rapper, who grew up in Crown Heights, co-founded the record label Duck Down Music.

Buckshot claimed the attack was orchestrated by a career criminal well-known in that area. The Jamaican-born man has used the building as a base for years and has stored ghost cars in the driveway, the rapper explains.

“He preys on people, and he goes around scamming homes from older women,” Buckshot alleged. ‘He’s a thief and a master con artist. (The previous owner) warned me about him, but I thought I could talk to him. I tried a few times, but he just wasn’t (receptive).

“He wanted to get paid off the street and keep the place.”

When Buckshot began cleaning out the “run-down” home, which was previously owned by one of the scammer’s elderly victims, the crook called 911 and told officers he owned the property.

Buckshot paid $46,000 for the three-family home in August, property records show.

Soon, he said, younger men in the neighborhood started telling him, “Don’t come near me anymore.”

They also tried to oppose him; a video taken by one of his attackers, filmed just before the attack surfaced Friday, shows a man filming Buckshot while repeatedly calling him a “traitor.”

“These fake crips were his enforcers,” Buckshot insisted, adding that his attackers were in their late teens. “They were his cronies.”

Buckshot claims the man behind the video “pushed me and so I pushed him back.” The man then called his friends on his phone. “He says, ‘He finally hit me, man, come through the block,’ and I’m thinking, what the hell is going on?”

Moments later, the criminals attacked him.

“It is what it is,” Buckshot said. “Everyone stands up for him. I aborted an operation, and the team he works with will do what he says.

The rapper said he is still recovering from his injuries and is working with his own legal team and police “to ensure this case is handled appropriately.”

Police have begun investigating the attack but have not yet made any arrests, the NYPD said.

Buckshot said he is undeterred by the brutal attack and will continue work on the home.

“I don’t accept bullies,” he said. “It’s a shame what happened. But I don’t walk.”