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 ...

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’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 is still making headlines. Earlier this month, one of the late rapper’s convicted killers—who goes by Blockstar—was released from jail and went on to appear on the No Jumper podcast to ...

Three years after Pop Smoke’s (real name Bashar Barakah Jackson) tragic murder, the case is nearing a close. Revered as one of the driving forces behind New York’s drill music scene, the late rapper’s ...

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.

It’s been a busy 2022 for Tyga as he has performed across the world, dropped music videos and released the controversial Wavy Baby sneaker with MSCHF that ended up going to court. Now, the American ...

“I wanted to make Pop Smoke a superstar,” record executive and artist manager Steven Victor says wistfully. He succeeded — the young rapper has two songs on Variety’s Hitmakers 2021 list, “What You ...