POP SMOKE

BIOGRAPHY & EARLY LIFE OF POP SMOKE

Bashar Barakah Jackson [Pop Smoke] was born on July 20, 1999, in canarsie Brooklyn, New York, to a Jamaican mother, Audrey Jackson, and a Panamanian father, Greg Jackson. He has an older brother named Obasi. Bashar attended nine different schools while growing up in Canarsie, Brooklyn. He played the African drums in his local church as a child. Bashar was expelled from eighth grade for bringing a gun to school and spent two years on house arrest after being charged with possessing a weapon. Jackson started playing basketball as a point and shooting guard. He relocated to Philadelphia to enroll in Rocktop Academy. He was later forced to leave after being diagnosed with a heart murmur, and Jackson eventually turned to street life.

POP SMOKES CAREER

Pop Smoke has released 2
mixtapes,3 extended plays,19 music videos and 23 singles
(including 6 as a featured artist).
Pop smoke began his music career in late 2018 when visiting a Brooklyn studio with rapper Jay gwuapo. After gwuapo got inebriated on drugs and fell asleep, Pop went into a booth and tried rapping for the first time.
He used a beat he got from English producer 808melo and used American rapper sheff G’s song “panic part three”.He recorded his debut single mpr (panic part three remix). He later went on to drop two other singles, Flexing and Meet the woo.

Following his rise to fame, record producer Rico Beats introduced Pop Smoke to Steven Victor in April 2019. Victor would later have Pop Smoke sign a recording contract with Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records. He released his debut mixtape Meet the Woo in July 2019 which Included his breakout single “welcome to the party” which later on had 2 remixes one featuring Nicki Minaj and the other featuring Skepta. His second mixtape, Meet the Woo 2, was released on February 7, 2020, and debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, becoming the rapper’s first top-10 project in the United States. Pop smoke also appeared on the 2021 basketball movie as monk, who was the antagonist In the movie.

POP SMOKE DEATH

Less than two weeks after the release of meet the woo 2,pop smoke was fatally shot during a home invasion in Los Ang; On Wednesday, February 19 2020, at around 4:30 a.m., the New York Times reports that four suspects in hoodies, including one wearing a mask and carrying a weapon, entered a Hollywood Hills house where Pop Smoke was staying and fatally shot the rapper. He was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he died a few hours later.

Pop Smoke was renting Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp and her husband Edwin Arroyave’s home through a third-party agency.

Pop smoke was all alone In his bathroom at the time he was shot although there were other people In the house with him at that time.

Pop smoke accidently leaked his address via an Instagram story showing of his new Amiri bags.

WAS POP SMOKES DEATH A SETUP BY HIS BEST FRIEND: Fans were quick to accuse Mike Dee, who posted the photo with the address in the background, of setting Pop Smoke up. The girl In which pop smoke was with that night whose Identity Is unknown for her safety also said that “mike dee” had a hand In the death of pop smoke. After deleting everything off of his Instagram page, Dee mourned his friend and cleared his name.

The killer of pop smoks Is also a 15 year old.

The death of pop smoke was a big loss In the brookly rap scene being the face of brooklyn drill.

POP SMOKE POSTHUMOUS RELEASES

New York rapper 50 Cent was the executive producer of his posthumous debut studio album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, released on July 3, 2020. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and all 19 tracks from the album were charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also spawned a string of international top-10 singles, including “For the Night” (featuring DaBaby and Lil Baby) and “What You Know Bout Love”. A year later, Republic Records released Pop Smoke’s second studio album, Faith, on July 16, 2021. Faith peaked at number 1 on the billbboard hot 100 making pop smoke the first rapper with 2 posthumous number 1 albums.

POP SMOKE AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Grammy award for best rap performance 2021 [Nominee]

Billboard Music awards: Top rap artist 2021 [Winner], Top rap male artist 2021 [Winner], Top artist 2021 [Nominee], Top male artist 2021 [Nominee]

I Heart radio Music awards: Hip hop Song of the year “what you know bout love” 2022 [Winner], Hip hop artist of the year 2022 [Nominee], Best new pop artist 2021 [Nominee], Hip hop artist of the year 2021 [Nominee], Best new Hip hop artist 2021 [Nominee].

Juno awards: International album of the year “Shoot for the stars aim for the moon” 2021 [Nominee]

MTV awards: Song of summer “The woo” 2020 [Nominee]

POP SMOKES LEGAL TROUBLES

On January 17, 2020, after returning from Paris Fashion Week, Jackson was arrested by federal authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport after stealing a Rolls-Royce Wraith, valued at $375,000, whose owner reported it stolen after Jackson had reportedly borrowed it in California for a music video shoot on the condition it would be returned the next day. Investigators believed he arranged for the car to be transported on a flatbed truck to New York. He posted a photo of himself in front of the stolen car on Instagram and Facebook. The car was recovered by authorities at Jackson’s mother’s house, in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn.After his arrest, police questioned him about a non-fatal shooting that took place in Brooklyn in June 2019. The police thought he had information on the shooting because they claimed to have a footage of him driving a car in reverse near the scene of the crime. The police also tried to pressure Jackson into telling them more information about the Crips, GS9, and other Brooklyn street gangs, but he refused to talk. He was charged with grand theft auto, posted a $250,000 bond, and agreed to stay away from known gang members and submit drug tests to the US pretrial services. The conditions Jackson was put under hindered some of his performances like the “BK Drip Concert” at Kings Theatre in Flatbush in February 2020, as gang members would be in the audience.[62]

NOTE: In a Genius interview, he stated that his artist name of Pop Smoke is a combination of Poppa, a name given to him by his Panamanian grandmother, and Smocco Guwop, a nickname from childhood friends and it was also his old Instagram Name.

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