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 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’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's blossoming career was cut tragically short on Feb. 19, 2020, when the 20-year-old rapper was shot and killed during a home invasion and attempted robbery at a house he was renting in the ...
Brooklyn has become one of the capitals of Drill. This week, Herbert “G Herbo” Wright III earned the highest-charting position of his career on the Billboard 200 album chart. The Chicago native’s 25 ...
There have been two posthumous releases from Pop Smoke following his death in February 2020, but the rapper’s close friend Mike Dee says there probably isn’t much more unreleased music on the way. The ...
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 ...
Though they aren't physically here, Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD's legacies continue to live on. Take, for instance, the upcoming 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where the latest artists received multiple ...
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.