Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was fatally shot Wednesday morning at a home in the Hollywood Hills, law enforcement officials confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. He was 20. Pop Smoke, born Bashar Barakah ...

Pop Smoke was reportedly at the center of a gang related investigation prior to his death, according to a former NYPD police chief. In a new interview with The John Rondi Show, John Chell said that he ...

Pop Smoke’s death in February 2020 didn’t just shock the music world. According to a former NYPD police chief, it also froze a growing investigation that had quietly been building behind the scenes.

LOS ANGELES — Even by today’s get-famous-quick standards, Pop Smoke became hot at microwave speed. He had moved on from his family’s duplex in a middle-class section of Brooklyn, and, at 20 years old, ...