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Pop Smoke was emerging as a superstar when his life was cut short on Feb. 19, 2020. Though it was early in the game for him, the Brooklyn rapper left an imprint beyond his husky voice. The inviting ...

On Thursday afternoon (March 5), fans of Pop Smoke gathered on the streets of Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood, watching as the rapper took one final ride through his hood. Canarsie is typically a ...

Update 2/21/20 at 3:45pm EST: The Los Angeles County Coroner released an official manner as “homicide” and cause of death “gunshot wound of torso” in the murder of Pop Smoke. “It is not confirmed that ...

Dua Lipa singing the words “You can’t say Pop without Smoke” was not on many 2021 bingo cards. Yet there it is on “Demeanor,” one of many posthumous collaborations on the slain Brooklyn rapper Pop ...

It has been a sad week for the hip hop community and for the family of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke. Smoke, whose real name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed in an apparent home robbery in Hollywood ...

It's been five months since Pop Smoke's death and just over a year since "Welcome to the Party," the first single of his debut mixtape, Meet the Woo, began snaking through the firmament. Then it was ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The only adult charged in the murder of rapper Pop Smoke will go to ...

Pop Smoke is claiming his innocence. On Friday (Feb. 7), the Canarsie, Brooklyn rapper stopped by Angie Martinez's show at New York's Power 105.1 radio station to promote his new project, Meet the Woo ...

Buy a print copy of the NOW issue of The FADER here. On October 12, Rolling Loud — the self-identified “largest hip-hop festival in the world” — was scheduled to make a triumphant debut in rap mecca ...

Steven Victor is from Canarsie, same as Pop Smoke. It’s an area of Brooklyn that most people don’t make it out of (count Flipp Dinero among the handful). Canarsie nurtures a devour-your-prey-whole ...

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 30: Pop Smoke performs at the Soulfrito Music Festival at Barclays Center on August 30, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Arik McArthur/Getty Images) As Pop Smoke’s debut album ...