Pop Smoke's murder suspect, Corey Walker, has been sentenced for his role in the rapper's fatal 2020 shooting. Walker accepted a plea deal from prosecutors at a hearing two weeks ago, pleading guilty ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, one of Pop Smoke’s alleged killers, Blockstar, did an interview with “No Jumper” in which he talked about the incident, and he appeared to have no regrets about what happened that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A home invasion in Los Angeles claimed the life of 20-year-old rapper Pop Smoke on Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told Rolling ...

There have been a few murals created in honor of Pop Smoke, but a new mural has fans upset because of how it looks. On Monday (April 17), a new https://www.xxlmag.com ...

The final man to be convicted in the 2020 killing of rapper Pop Smoke is expressing remorse for his role in the shooting death, for which he was sentenced to 29 years on Friday in Los Angeles. “Even ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter. The 20-year-old man, who ...

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 ...

February 2024 marked the 4-year anniversary of Pop Smoke’s (real name Bashar Barakah Jackson) death. The late “Dior” rapper’s tragic murder hit the rap community hard. Since then, Jackson’s family ...

"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 ...