Pop Smoke, also known as Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed on February 19, 2020, after an intrusion at a Hollywood Hills ...

Pop Smoke’s death in February 2020 didn’t just shock the music world. According to a former NYPD police chief, it also froze a growing investigation that had quietly been building […] The post Former ...

The autopsy report for rapper Pop Smoke, who was murdered by a 15-year-old shooter in 2021, has been released and obtained by The Blast. As previously reported, a detective says Pop Smoke was shot by ...

Pop Smoke’s voice is unforgettable — a deep, gravelly tone that carries both menace and charm. A pioneer of Brooklyn drill, he took a genre rooted in the streets and propelled it into the global ...

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 ...

Fans of Pop Smoke received a measure of closure on February 5 when one of the four men responsible for the rapper’s death accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 29 years in prison. Corey Walker, ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) nearly scrapped the release of a Pop Smoke track due to a controversial verse from Pusha T that executives believed aimed at Drake. The revelation came from Steven Victor, ...

Erin Keller is a reporter based in Ohio. Her focus is live and trending news, as well as pop culture. She has covered celebrity deaths, lawsuits, and the Hunter Biden gun trial. Erin joined Newsweek ...

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. He was 20 ...

Biggie. Tupac. DMX. We pay tribute to 63 stars who died too young. By Danyel Smith Pop Smoke, Lil Durk, Fivio Foreign and more have taken the sound that emerged in Chicago in different directions.