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Einar, 19, whose real name was Nils Gronberg,
was killed in the upmarket Stockholm suburb of Hammarby Sjostad,
and no arrests had been made so far. In a previous incident last
year, Einar was abducted and assaulted by rival rappers.
"A young life has been extinguished, and I understand that he
meant a lot to many young people. It is tragic," Prime Minister
Stefan Lofven told TT.
Gronberg, who made his debut at 16, issued four albums, had tens
of millions of streams on music platforms and won several
Swedish Grammys and other awards.
Last year, he was kidnapped and beaten up by rival rappers with
ties to a Stockholm crime gang. Several people, including Yasin
Byn, another of Sweden's most successful rappers, were given
prison terms for their role in the kidnapping.
Johan Forsell, law and order spokesperson for the main Moderates
opposition party, said it was time to put an end to gang
violence in Sweden.
"The limits of what can be accepted in a civilized country have
been passed a very long time ago," he wrote on Twitter. "We need
action not words to turn the tide and get Sweden in order."
Sweden has suffered gang-violence for years and gone from having
one of the lowest rates of gun crime in Europe to having one of
the highest over the past two decades.
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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