Pop Smoke

Honestly, Pop Smoke is one of those artists where the more time passes, the more it stings knowing what we lost. He came out of Canarsie, Brooklyn with this impossibly deep, gravelly voice that didn't sound like anyone else in the game — you heard two bars of "Welcome to the Party" and you just knew. He basically put New York drill on the map for a mainstream audience, and "Dior" became one of those rare tracks that transcended genre entirely. The wild thing is he was only 20 years old and had barely gotten started; "Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon" dropped posthumously in 2020 and still debuted at number one. I keep thinking about what a full decade of that voice and that vision could have looked like. A genuine once-in-a-generation talent gone way too soon.

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Name (English)

Pop Smoke

Name (Japanese)

ポップ・スモーク

Reading

ぽっぷ・すもーく

Born

July 20, 1999 – February 19, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Canarsie, New York, United States

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / actor

High school

Richmond Hill High School

• Official sitehttps://realpopsmoke.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/realpopsmoke/
• Xhttps://x.com/POPSMOKE10
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20Smoke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81698554

Tags

• New York
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.