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Pop Smoke on Brooklyn Drill, New York Hip-Hop in Final Interview

Celebrating the career of the late Pop Smoke. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands soon. Just four Wednesdays later, on Feb. 19, Pop was ...
The New York Times

In Pop Smoke Murder Investigation, Evidence Sends Mixed Messages

The Los Angeles police said that intruders took some things from the home, but that some usual signs of a robbery were absent. There have been no arrests. By Elizabeth A. Harris The rapper Pop Smoke ...
Vulture

The Biggest Revelations From the Pop Smoke Murder Case Hearings

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, ...
Complex

From ‘The Flossy’ to the Front Row: Remembering Pop Smoke’s First Paris Fashion Week

Pop Smoke told Angie Martinez that before touching down in Paris back in January, he had never even left the country before. The 20-year-old Canarsie rapper, born Bashar Jackson, hadn’t traveled ...
The New York Times

The Rapid Rise of Pop Smoke, Brooklyn Rap’s Homecoming King

“Welcome to the Party” became one of hip-hop’s songs of the summer, but this 20-year-old with a throwback New York vibe is just getting started. Pop Smoke will be recording his debut album and touring ...
Los Angeles Times

Rapper Pop Smoke gunned down in Hollywood Hills home

A group of people, including one wearing a mask and armed with a handgun, burst into a posh Hollywood Hills home early Wednesday and fatally shot up-and-coming rapper Pop Smoke, police said. Los ...