A Swedish rapper who last month was named the country’s hip hop artist of the year has been killed in a gang shooting in Gothenburg, Swedish police said on Wednesday.Masked 26-year-old rapper C.Gambino — whose real name is Karar Ramadan and is not to be confused with American rapper Childish Gambino — was the victim of a shooting in a parking lot on Tuesday evening, police said.
The killing “is linked to a gang conflict”, a police spokeswoman told AFP, adding that the rapper “was known to police”.C.Gambino’s most recent track, “Sista Gang” , was released on May 31 and has been streamed 700,000 times since then on Swedish site Spotify.“He was one of Swedish hip hop’s greats,” Swedish rap expert Petter Hallen told news agency TT, adding that his death was “a heavy blow to the rap scene in Gothenburg and all of Sweden”.
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