Via NYDailyNews reports:

A rapper on his way to buy fruit and vegetables found himself at the center of a media whirlwind — after he started live-tweeting the beheading of a British soldier on a London street.

Boya Dee picked up more than 20,000 new followers Wednesday after he gave an engaging first hand account of how he saw “two men chopping a mans head off with a machete.”

He wrote about the chaotic scenes, which unfolded after the trooper was run down on a Woolwich sidewalk at about 2:20 p.m., on his Twitter page @BoyaDee.

His eye-witness account saw him spiral into Twitter orbit, and he was subsequently bombarded by prominent TV stations from across the world for interviews.

RSo far he has not taken them up on their offer.

It’s led some to speculate that the account is fake and he was simply repeating what he had seen on the TV news.

But the depth of his knowledge, with many of the things he said not being officially confirmed until hours later, suggest it is true.