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Credit: Nicole Rivelli / Focus Features Q: Did you make Charlemagne Tha God (who plays Patrick) audition? EH: No, the God is offer only! You cannot be the God and need to audition – he’s offer only! Q: What was Pop Smoke’s casting and audition process like? EH: I’m a Pisces so I’m very intuitive and go with vibes. I rarely look at IMDb profiles because when I was trying to get jobs my resume was kind of trash. I look at the person. With Pop – I have my ear to the streets – we star...

Raya And The Last Dragon (Photo: Disney); Coming 2 America (Photo: Amazon Studios); Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Photo: Courtesy of HBO Max); The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (Photo: Paramount Plus) Graphic: Libby McGuire Blockbusters are back in a big way this March, even if movie theaters aren’t. Many of the month’s biggest titles, including the showdown between a king of the monsters and a big-ass ape, would probably be box office behemoths during any other moment in recent h...

A new Pop Smoke song, 'AP', has been posthumously released. It appears on the soundtrack to the film 'Boogie', the late rapper's debut role.

A year ago, on February 19 2020, drill lost New York pioneer Pop Smoke after the rapper was gunned down in a Hollywood Hills rental home. Now that 12 months have passed and four suspects have been charged with his murder, you cannot deny the empty crater in drill music today without Smoke (real name Bashar Jackson). Pushing the NY scene to the forefront of pop music, with the help of the UK and our enriched drill community, Pop Smoke left an irreversible mark on the genre before being taken too...

The rapper, known for his baby face and bristled voice was killed in February 2020. Pop Smoke’s big brother, Obasi Jackson, remembers the exact moment he learned his little brother, the Brooklyn rapper known for his baby face and bristled voice, was killed.  “My friend comes up to my dorm and knocks. She was like, ‘I got something to tell you. I hate to give you this news.’ Im like, What are you talking about?" he told Inside Edition Digital, his mind immediately wandering to a probl...

With the one-year anniversary of Pop Smoke’s death approaching in February, the late Brooklyn rapper continues to posthumously be a radio staple in Hip Hop as the New Year begins. According to Chart Data on Sunday (January 24), Pop’s “What You Know Bout Love” rose to No. 1 on U.S. Rhythmic radio this week. The Ginuwine-sampling cut also holds the No. 22 spot on Pop radio. The feat gives him a second radio No. 1 simultaneously as “For The Night” featuring Lil Baby and DaBaby remains ...

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By Reporter The top five true crime stories to happen in 2020. The Hip-Hop Community Mourns Rising Artist Pop Smoke The hip-hop community reckoned with a loss earlier this year, when Bashar Jackson, otherwise known as “Pop Smoke”, an up-and-coming Brooklyn-based rapper whose songs that were produced by 50 Cent topped the charts, was shot dead in his house during a break-in on Feb. 19. Four suspects in hoodies were caught on surveillance footage, entering the Hollywood Hills home around 4:3...