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 ...

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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.

Cory Walker, convicted in rapper Pop Smoke’s killing, was sentenced to 29 years in prison bringing the case to an end. One of the conspirators convicted in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke was ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An up-and-coming rapper known as Pop Smoke was fatally shot during a break-in early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, his label said. “We are devastated by the unexpected and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Pop Smoke, a 20-year-old rapper referred to as “the leader of a movement” by Spotify, was killed early Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, according to media reports. The rapper, who has 6 million ...

The only jury trial over the senseless slaying of Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke is now set to begin June 25 in Los Angeles. A judge set the date for Corey Walker, the sole defendant charged as an adult in ...

Police are investigating if Javonnta Murphy’s death was a retaliation killing. The world lost Pop Smoke on February 19, 2020 after multiple people broke into the Hollywood Hills home where he was ...