{"id":3035,"date":"2020-11-01T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2020-11-01T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T06:00:58","slug":"tribute-to-brooklyn-rapper-pop-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Tribute To Brooklyn Rapper Pop Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When his life was cut short in the early hours of February 19, 2020, Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was, at the age of 20, more famous than he\u2019d ever been, yet nowhere close to where he was likely to end up. He exploded onto the scene in 2019 with \u201cWelcome to the Party,\u201d a song that somehow plays as enticing as it is menacing, exemplifying Brooklyn\u2019s rising drill music scene at its sharpest. His voice across it\u2014gruff and road-worn beyond his age\u2014carries the delivery of a supervillain, daring his adversaries to try and stop the mayhem he has planned for the city.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3036\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3036\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pop-Smoke.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pop-Smoke.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pop-Smoke-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pop-Smoke-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/pop-smoke\/1450601383?itsct=music_box&amp;itscg=30200&amp;ls=1&amp;app=music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StreamIcedOutAudemars<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pop Smoke was from the far-flung Canarsie neighborhood, and his verses radiate a singular kind of Real Brooklyn energy. (A great deal of his &#8220;Welcome to the Party\u201d video takes place in front of the long-standing jerk chicken staple Peppa\u2019s.) His slang (\u201csturdy,\u201d \u201cdap me up\u201d) was largely New York City-centric, which helped songs like \u201cWar,\u201d \u201cChristopher Walking,\u201d and \u201cDior\u201d reverberate quickly through, and beyond, the five boroughs. Fans worldwide got indoctrinated upon accepting his 2019 debut project\u2019s invitation to Meet the Woo; a sequel, Meet the Woo 2, was released just weeks before his death. Pop Smoke worked well with the stars of his city, nabbing collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Bronx heartthrob A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and fellow ascending voices Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign. He\u2019d even have no problem setting his own tone on his Travis Scott collaboration \u201cGATTI,\u201d from the JACKBOYS project. Canarsie had Pop Smoke famously calling friends and associates his \u201cwoos,\u201d but his enemies mostly went nameless, barely worth mentioning. As fast as things were moving for him, he couldn\u2019t have had a second of spare time to give to anyone who didn\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When his life was cut short in the early hours of February 19, 2020, Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was, at the age of 20, more famous than he\u2019d ever been, yet nowhere close to where he was likely to end up. He exploded onto the scene in 2019 with \u201cWelcome to the Party,\u201d a song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[306,307,308,100],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-streamapse-reports","tag-brooklyn","tag-rapper","tag-smoke","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}