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 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 ...
It sounded like rupture. It sounded like chaos and disorder. It sounded like the earth opening up and swallowing you. This was the power of Pop Smoke’s music when it first hit mass consciousness ...
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 ...
Pitchfork’s weekly rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, dances, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches our attention in the world of hip-hop. I ...