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 ...

With his posthumously released album, the late star has surpassed Eminem, who set the record in 2011 with his seventh studio album Recovery PEOPLE, Music Writer and Reporter Pop Smoke has made history ...

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 ...

Last summer, Pop Smoke’s music––guttural, raw, irresistible––coursed through New York’s clubs, car stereos, yawning apartment windows. Born Bashar Barakah Jackson and raised in Canarsie, on Brooklyn’s ...

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 ...

Hear tracks by Xenia Rubinos, Swedish House Mafia, Soccer Mommy and others. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica Isabelia Herrera and Giovanni Russonello Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times ...

On Wednesday, February 19, at around 4:30 a.m., the New York Times reports that four suspects in hoodies, including one wearing a mask and carrying a weapon, entered a Hollywood Hills house where Pop ...

Rising Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was arrested Friday on federal charges of transporting a stolen vehicle, the New York Times reports. The rapper was arrested at John F. Kennedy airport in New York ...

Steven Victor knows a thing or two about greatness in the music industry. The record executive’s accomplished career includes running Kanye West’s label G.O.O.D. Music, working as executive VP and ...