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 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 ...

Did 50 Cent have any involvement in the Pop Smoke song that sampled his work? Sometimes, artists don’t really like it when someone else samples their work. For example, the Bee Gees took issue when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 would be all too easy to simply add the killing of 20-year-old New York rapper Pop Smoke to the litany of tragedies that have plagued hip-hop recently. Nipsey Hussle at 33, Mac Miller at 26, Juice ...