Budding rapper Pop Smoke reportedly shot dead in armed robbery. Image via Headtopics.
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American rapper Pop Smoke reported dead in armed robbery

A Los Angeles police press release mentioning reports of an armed robbery involving a man who was shot on his property was hospitalized and passed away shortly is widely thought to be about popular rapper Pop Smoke, though police have yet to confirm the deceased man's identity. Pop Smoke, whose real name was Bashar Barakah Jackson, was a budding artist who performed the 2019 hit Welcome to the Party.

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