Chicago rapper King Louie was shot in the head in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side Wednesday afternoon, his management team confirmed.
The rapper — whose real name is Louis Johnson Jr. — was shot while in a vehicle in the 3900 block of West 83rd Street about 3:30 p.m., according to his management and Chicago Police.
Police said he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition had stabilized.
A representative from his management team said he was “awake and talking.”
Further details were not immediately available.
King Louie coined the term “Chi-Raq” in 2009 and is also credited with the creation of “Drillinois,” a term that plays off the hip hop genre of “Drill” that he and other Chicago rappers including Chief Keef, Lil Reese, Lil Durk and G Herbo helped popularize.
“I called it Chi-Raq, but I wasn’t caring about the Chi-Raq part. I was caring about the Drillinois part; I was caring about the drill movement,” King Louie told the Sun-Times in 2014.
King Louie released a song on Dec. 4 titled “F— Spike Lee,” the same day the New York director’s film “Chi-Raq” premiered in theaters.