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 ...
More details continue to come in surrounding the February 2020 killing of Brooklyn, N.Y. rapper Pop Smoke. On Friday (May 7), LAPD Det. Carlos Camacho testified during a preliminary hearing for ...
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, ...
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A significant development has emerged in the investigation of rapper Pop Smoke’s murder as Corey Walker enters a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter. The admission comes nearly four years after the ...
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 ...
Plenty has been said about Bashar Jackson, the person—his family life, his teenage dreams of basketball stardom, his legal issues. A lot more has also been shared about Pop Smoke, rap icon: his ...