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, a Brooklyn, New York-raised rapper who rose to fame with hit songs like “Dior” and “Welcome to the Party,” was killed early Wednesday in Los Angeles, his record label said, in what police ...

Law enforcement is reportedly exploring a possible connection between the death of an aspiring rapper whose body was discovered at a California beach last week and that of Pop Smoke. The body of ...

Cory Walker, convicted in rapper Pop Smoke’s killing, was sentenced to 29 years in prison bringing the case to an end. One of the conspirators convicted in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke was ...

On Monday (Feb. 19), Amelia Rose, the woman who was with Pop Smoke in Los Angeles on the night he was tragically killed exactly four years prior, hit up Instagram with a heartbreaking tribute to the ...

"There's no apology that amounts to the taking of someone's life," Corey Walker said in court on Friday, Feb. 21 Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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.

Police are investigating if Javonnta Murphy’s death was a retaliation killing. The world lost Pop Smoke on February 19, 2020 after multiple people broke into the Hollywood Hills home where he was ...