Pop Smoke is an American rapper, who turned out to be at the forefront of the New York scene, and after his death, Black Lives Matter moved to the icon. Becoming a star, the musician went with guard everywhere, fearing for his safety. And, as it turned out, not in vain.
Childhood and youth
Pop Smoke (Bashar Barack Jackson) was born on July 20, 1999, in New York, USA. His mother was from Jamaica, and his father emigrated from Panama, his younger brother was called Mike Di. The rapper grew up in the Brooklyn area, where children lived with rich parents who wore designer clothes and used tooth thread.
When Bashar was about 13 years old, he was given a slap on the street. The incident was captured on video and posted on social networks. After that, the musician realized that life was hard, and he needed to strive up. Pop Smoke wore weapons to school, because it was unsafe, but tried to get a certificate to please the mother. Nevertheless, Bashar was kicked out of the 8th grade, because the gun was discovered. After that, the guy was under house arrest for two years.
Music
In 2018, the young man began a musical biography by taking the pseudonym POP Smoke. The first word meant not a genre of music, but a distorted pope (dad).
In the summer of 2019, the musician released the song Welcome to the Party and Ep Meet The Woo. In the creation of the record, Niki Minazh and FRENCH MONTANA participated. Then he followed the hit Dior, which became megapopular, it was sounded from each car.
Another signed song became Gatti, recorded with Travis Scott, and entered into the Jackboys Collection.
The rapper called his genre Drill Music, using the sound of the British production drill in the arrangement. For this style, threatening, dark trap bits are characterized, which are accompanied by the cruel content of texts and the “calm” feed of the artist.
On February 7, 2020, the second in the discography of rapper Mikstep “Meet The Woo – 2”, rose to the seventh line of Billboard, which went out of 36,000 in the first week. War and Christopher Walking songs were published in the form of singles. The record also hit the charts of Canada, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
Problems with law
Rapper from adolescence was persecuted by the ministers of law enforcement who suspected a guy in the storage of drugs. In October 2019, the police managed to eliminate Pop Smoke from the New York Festival.
In January 2020, the singer was charged with an attempt to overtake a stolen “Rolls-Royce” worth about $ 350 thousand across the state border. The owner of the car was a fan of the American rapper, which allowed the use of the car in the clip in exchange for a “special relationship” at the concert. “Rolls-Royce” Bashar never returned, and the fan appealed to the police.
Personal life
The musician was in a relationship with a girl named Jazzy Mulani and, by rumors, was shy in his personal life.
In his school years, Pop Smoke played basketball and dreamed of making a career in sports. But with this thought, I had to part in 2016, when he found noises in his heart. Bashar weighed 73 kg with a growth of 177 cm.
Death
The rapper died on February 19, 2020, in Los Angeles, when in the house on the Hollywood Hills, where he was shot by the star “real housewives” Teddy Mellencamp, unknown people invaded. The cause of death was a bullet wound. The murder remained unexplored, although, in July, five suspects were arrested, two of them turned out to be juveniles.
Three-member gangs – Corey Walker, Kendra Rogers, and Zhakuan Murphy – in September 2019 were accomplices in killing a teenager Camina Cowan.
The case began to look even more tragic when it turned out that the address of the musician attackers learned from the video laid out on Instagram, where Pop Smoke posed by the pool in the backyard at home.
On July 3, 2020, the first and last album of the musician SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON, was released. The release of the release participated 50 CENT, with which they often compared the late artist. He did not take money for his work. The main hit from this plate was the lyrical song What You Know Bout Love, written in conjunction with Tesham Xena, Algina Lampkin, and Troy Oliver. The single took 20th place in the United States and 4th in the UK.
The singer’s grave is located in the Green Wood Cemetery in New York. To the site of the burial of Bashar was carried on the heap, harvested by two white horses. The Pop Smoke family was shocked by an unpleasant incident, when a fan, having missed the ceremony, photographed the lifeless body of the musician in an open coffin.
Jazzy Mulani reported that Pop Smoke life was the best man in her life, surpassing all her expectations. Shortly before the murder, they spent the night, after being confirmed to each other in love.
