French Montana was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering alarming cardiac issues and severe nausea, TMZ reports.

According to the gossip site, Montana was rushed to the hospital by ambulance Thursday afternoon (Nov. 21) around 1:30 p.m local time after police called to his Calabasas home for a possible robbery became concerned with French’s health.

While the robbery turned out to be a false alarm, the responding officers felt as though French was acting out of the ordinary and called for an ambulance.

Sources close to French say he’d been experiencing severe stomach pains, nausea, and an elevated heart rate.

The insiders added that rapper has been traveling a lot over the past couple of weeks, including trips to the Middle East and Europe, and they believe this health scare could be a result of him being exposed to contaminated food.

French was taken to a San Fernando Valley-area hospital, and he’s reportedly “awake and alert” right now while getting treated with IV fluids. He’s expected to be released at some point Thursday evening.

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