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 ...

Celebrating the career of the late Pop Smoke. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of XXL Magazine, on stands soon. Just four Wednesdays later, on Feb. 19, Pop was ...

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 ...

The music industry is mourning the loss of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke, who was killed in a home invasion in Beverly Hills. Pop Smoke was a rising new star in the industry and was likely going to be one ...

In the early hours of February 19, Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a home invasion at a house in the Hollywood Hills. The face of the Brooklyn drill movement, who spent the past year captivating ...

Born in Chicago and raised in south London, drill has recently made the move to New York. Despite its beginnings in the US, the rap sub-genre is now often thought of as a very British prospect – all ...

Pop Smoke helped shape Brooklyn’s drill scene, an emerging web of young artists who posit that New York can be just as interesting as an importer — and mutater — of other regional sounds. Photo: Scott ...