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 ...

A year ago, the hip-hop community lost one of its biggest, rising talents, Pop Smoke. Born Bashar Jackson, the 20-year-old drill rapper was shot and killed while in his Los Angeles rental home. The ...

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 30: Pop Smoke performs at the Soulfrito Music Festival at Barclays Center on August 30, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Arik McArthur/Getty Images) As Pop Smoke’s debut album ...

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 ...

Nearly a year after five individuals were arrested in connection with the murder of Pop Smoke, one of Pop's alleged killers has had a preliminary court hearing, in which new developments in the case ...

Corey Walker, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of robbery, with firearm and gang enhancements. Walker is one of four people charged in connection with the ...

The rapper's second posthumous album has some dazzling moments, but ultimately feels like business as usual for an audience whose attention may be elsewhere ...

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, ...

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 ...