The rapper, gunned down at the age of twenty, was Brooklyn through and through, a quality that he proudly let seep into his music. In doing so, he won respect in a place where it isn’t easily given.
Briana Younger on the Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke, who was gunned down at the age of twenty, and the legacy of his short music career, which helped to revive hip-hop in New York.
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