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 ...

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 ...

Some of the biggest rap albums of the year have come from young stars who died prematurely: Drug overdoses or shootings cut short the lives of Juice WRLD, Pop Smoke and Mac Miller. “We’ve lost so many ...

Dua Lipa, Kanye West, Chris Brown and Pusha T are among the featured artists on a Frankenstein-ed but surprisingly substantial project. The posthumous album is, sadly, as much a part of the hip-hop ...

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 ...

Pop Smoke, the Canarsie-born rapper behind “Dior,” was tragically killed in Los Angeles in February 2020. He was a bright performer who was bringing a classic New York flavor back to hip-hop, while ...