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The Pop Smoke Effect: How The Panamanian, BK Drill Rapper Impacted Brazilian Hip-Hop

Felipe Maia — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:38:17 +0000

Rennan da Penha is a well-known face in Brazil. He’s one of the producers who architected one of the freshest iterations of baile funk, the “150”—a sped-up, frantic strain of the Brazilian music genre. Despite his achievements, da Penha doesn’t have a glossy photo of himself on Instagram or Twitter, where he’s quite active. Instead,

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Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album Earns Longest #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album In 30 Years

Cheky — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:09:59 +0000

Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, the first posthumous studio full-length by Pop Smoke made history this week as the longest running number one Hip Hop/R&B album since 1990. Released in July 2020, almost four months after the late Brooklyn rapper was shot dead in Hollywood Hills at only 20 years old, the

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Five Arrests Made in Connection to Pop Smoke’s Murder

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:54:41 +0000

On Thursday, The Los Angeles Police Department announced that five people have been arrested in connection with Pop Smoke’s murder, two of whom are underage. Pop Smoke (born Bashar Barakah Jackson) died in his Hollywood Hills home on February 19. No further details—including the motive and identity of those involved—have been released yet. The

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