Last summer, Pop Smoke’s music––guttural, raw, irresistible––coursed through New York’s clubs, car stereos, yawning apartment windows. Born Bashar Barakah Jackson and raised in Canarsie, on Brooklyn’s ...

The post Pop Smoke’s New Album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon Receives Deluxe Edition: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The deluxe edition, out on what would have been the New ...

On February 19, 2020, Pop Smoke’s life was tragically cut short, when he was shot and killed at the age of 20. At the time of his death, the rapper was a leading light of Brooklyn drill, the ...

With the year coming to a close, many are taking a look back at their streaming history in 2020. Spotify unveiled their annual Wrapped series which confirmed the late Juice WRLD had the most streams ...

Though they aren't physically here, Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD's legacies continue to live on. Take, for instance, the upcoming 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where the latest artists received multiple ...

Pop Smoke wasn't the pioneer of the rising hip-hop sub-genre known as Brooklyn drill music, but he is definitely responsible for helping push the fledgling brand of rap music into the mainstream. A ...

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.

"God Bless and comfort your family. What a crazy trajectory you were on man smh," Chance the Rapper wrote on Twitter PEOPLE, Music Writer and Reporter Rapper Pop Smoke (né Bashar Barakah Jackson) was ...

Former NYPD Police Chief John Chell has shared new insight into how Pop Smoke became connected to a larger gang investigation ...