Pop Smoke’s debut album “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” was released after the rapper died in a home invasion in February.

Pop Smoke fans are bound to be disappointed if they expect any more music from the late New York rapper. Taken at just 20 years old, Pop Smoke put out only two mixtapes before his untimely death ...

Pop Smoke's producer Rico Beats says the late Brooklyn rapper wouldn't have approved 99 percent of the music that was released after his death.

Death can be a prison for the dead trapped in the vision of the living. Posthumous albums are inherently, at best, interpretations of the fallen artist's intentions molded by how those who are ...

In 2021, Pop Smoke’s close friend Mike Dee told fans that the “Welcome To The Party” rhymer had no music left in the vault after the release of two posthumous albums. Now, his producer and ...

The list of guest stars expands substantially on Pop Smoke's 'Faith' — from Kanye West to Dua Lipa — but so does his thwarted palette.

Pop Smoke was only 20 years old and had become the latest victim of the curse of rap music. Remember Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion, Nipsey Hussle, Mac Miller and others?

Pop Smoke makes the kind of bad-moods-beget-bad-decisions-beget-bad-consequences music that New York rap once specialized in, and which feels, in the current landscape, almost refreshingly Stone Age.

At the end of the title track of Pop Smoke’s posthumous LP “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” there’s a lament that hits different on Fourth of July weekend in 2020.