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 ...

Pop Smoke fans are bound to be disappointed if they expect any more music from the late New York rapper. Taken at just 20 years old, Pop Smoke put out only two mixtapes before his untimely death.

Pop Smoke's producer, Rico Beats, recently claimed in a series of text messages that the late Brooklyn rapper wouldn't have "approved 99 percent" of the music that was released after his death. Over ...

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 ...

Dua Lipa, Kanye West, Chris Brown and Pusha T are among the featured artists on a Frankenstein-ed but surprisingly substantial project. The posthumous album is, sadly, as much a part of the hip-hop ...

Pop Smoke’s debut studio album, “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” was arguably the most significant event in hip-hop last year. Following the 20-year-old’s untimely death in February 2020, the ...

Pop Smoke is 20 years old. He sounds like he's 60. He sounds like his vocal chords are made of scorched asphalt and ground-up glass. He sounds like he ate volcanic ash for breakfast. He sounds like ...