Pop Smoke’s death in February 2020 didn’t just shock the music world. According to a former NYPD police chief, it also froze a growing investigation that had quietly been building behind the scenes.

Pop Smoke’s voice was more than music—it was movement. From the streets of Canarsie, Brooklyn to the top of the charts, he helped define a new era of New York drill and left an indelible mark on hip ...

Former NYPD Police Chief John Chell has shared new insight into how Pop Smoke became connected to a larger gang investigation before his tragic passing. Chell opened up about the situation during the ...

Pop Smoke was reportedly at the center of a gang related investigation prior to his death, according to a former NYPD police chief. In a new interview with The John Rondi Show, John Chell said that he ...

Pop Smoke, a Brooklyn, New York-raised rapper who rose to fame with hit songs like “Dior” and “Welcome to the Party,” was killed early Wednesday in Los Angeles, his record label said, in what police ...

LOS ANGELES — Even by today’s get-famous-quick standards, Pop Smoke became hot at microwave speed. He had moved on from his family’s duplex in a middle-class section of Brooklyn, and, at 20 years old, ...