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May 3, 2013

Hip-hop producer AraabMUZIK is shot

Hip-hop producer AraabMUZIK is shot

Abraham Orellana, the hip-hop producer known as AraabMUZIK, has been shot and is hospitalized.

Orellana's publicist said in a statement late Thursday that he is "currently alive and well" after being shot Wednesday night, noting he was in the wrong place at the wrong time while hanging out with friends.

The statement said he was in his neighborhood when he was shot, but didn't specify a city. Orellana's hometown is Providence, R.I.

The producer’s manager, George Moore, a record label executive posted on Twitter a picture of Orellana in a hospital bed Thursday: