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 ...

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 ...

Pop Smoke's murder suspect, Corey Walker, has been sentenced for his role in the rapper's fatal 2020 shooting. Walker accepted a plea deal from prosecutors at a hearing two weeks ago, pleading guilty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only one train goes to Canarsie. Private houses with driveways and backyards line most blocks in the remote Brooklyn neighborhood, nestled in the southeast corner of the borough, overlooking the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two men and two teens allegedly broke into a house in LA to shoot the rapper. Four people have been charged in connection with the death of rapper Pop Smoke. Two men and two teens are charged with ...

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 ...

Pop Smoke told Angie Martinez that before touching down in Paris back in January, he had never even left the country before. The 20-year-old Canarsie rapper, born Bashar Jackson, hadn’t traveled ...