Pop Smoke’s voice is unforgettable — a deep, gravelly tone that carries both menace and charm. A pioneer of Brooklyn drill, he took a genre rooted in the streets and propelled it into the global ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) nearly scrapped the release of a Pop Smoke track due to a controversial verse from Pusha T that executives believed aimed at Drake. The revelation came from Steven Victor, ...

Biggie. Tupac. DMX. We pay tribute to 63 stars who died too young. By Danyel Smith Pop Smoke, Lil Durk, Fivio Foreign and more have taken the sound that emerged in Chicago in different directions.

Pop Smoke’s voice was more than music—it was movement. From the streets of Canarsie, Brooklyn to the top of the charts, he helped define a new era of New York drill and left an indelible mark on hip ...

Pop Smoke, also known as Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed on February 19, 2020, after an intrusion at a Hollywood Hills rental house.

The autopsy report for rapper Pop Smoke, who was murdered by a 15-year-old shooter in 2021, has been released and obtained by The Blast. As previously reported, a detective says Pop Smoke was shot by ...

Pop Smoke’s death in February 2020 didn’t just shock the music world. According to a former NYPD police chief, it also froze a growing investigation that had quietly been building […] The post Former ...

Pop Smoke, a Brooklyn, New York-raised rapper who rose to fame with hit songs like “Dior” and “Welcome to the Party,” was killed early Wednesday in Los Angeles, his record label said, in what police ...

Cory Walker, convicted in rapper Pop Smoke’s killing, was sentenced to 29 years in prison bringing the case to an end. One of the conspirators convicted in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke was ...