The tragic death of hip-hop star Sidhu Moosewala has had reverberating effects in Canada after he was shot and killed in Punjab, India on Sunday.
The 28-year-old made waves in his home country and in Brampton, Ont., where he was an international student and rose to international stardom.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known by his stage name of Sidhu Moosewala, was killed in a targeted shooting in his hometown of Mansa, a small village in Punjab, according to local police.
Authorities said that his vehicle was fired at approximately 30 times. Moosewala died on the way to the hospital. To fellow international students in Canada getting their start, like Hardeep Singh of Haryana, Moosewala’s way of carrying himself always stood on par with his hits. “He was a really nice guy.