Pop Smoke knows how to take advantage of an opportunity. The Brooklyn-bred rapper, who would pull up to studio sessions for homies like Jay Gwuapo, kicked off his rap career by accident after he ...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands now. Pop Smoke doesn’t have a catalog of songs; he has an arsenal. It’s a cache stocked with lethal ...
On Wednesday, February 19, at around 4:30 a.m., the New York Times reports that four suspects in hoodies, including one wearing a mask and carrying a weapon, entered a Hollywood Hills house where Pop ...
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 ...
On February 19, 2020, New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in his Los Angeles rental house during a home invasion. He was just 20 years old. The up-and-coming performer, née Bashar Barakah Jackson, ...
Pop Smoke’s death early Wednesday in the Hollywood Hills shocked many in the rap community as well as devoted fans of the up-and-coming performer. But to others, the rapper born Bashar Barakah Jackson ...