The international hip-hop community is reeling today from the news that Brampton-based Punjabi recording artist and singer Sidhu Moose Wala, 28, was gunned down in the Jawaharke village of Mansa district in India.

Punjab police have confirmed that Wala, who came to Canada in 2016 on a student visa and began recording music, died while being taken to hospital just two days after the government withdrew protection of “two gunmen,” according to reports in the Indian press.