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Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” had already been oozing out of cracked car windows in the rapper’s native Brooklyn for an entire summer, and by September the song had drifted all the ...
Two men and two teens have been charged with killing rising rapper Pop Smoke, who died during a Los Angeles home-invasion robbery in February. According to a press release from the Los Angeles ...
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.
A year ago today, 20-year-old Pop Smoke – real name Bashar Barakah Jackson – was shot to death during a home invasion at a rented mansion in the Hollywood Hills. In July 2020, four people ...
From his long braids, dusky baritone and cocksure cackle to an all-around Brooklyn swagger that came through on every track, rapper Pop Smoke had the sort of pointed signatures that made him ...
The rapper Pop Smoke was killed during a home invasion at a Hollywood Hills, California, residence early Wednesday, a police official and federal law enforcement source confirmed to CNN.
Pop Smoke, an up-and-coming New York rapper known for his critically acclaimed song "Welcome to the Party," died at age 20, his record label confirmed. "We are devastated by the unexpected and ...
Authorities are investigating whether the man whose naked body was found stuffed in a barrel at a Florida beach was killed in retaliation for the 2020 murder of Brooklyn-born rapper Pop Smoke.
It’s been three years since the shocking murder of beloved Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke, and now one of the four men arrested for his murder has pleaded guilty to robbing and killing “The Woo ...