The life of Pop Smoke

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He was the face of the Brooklyn drill scene before being killed at just 20 years old. Five months after his death, his debut album has just been released.  This is the story of Pop Smoke.

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01:30Just young people expressing themselves about their realities, things that's going on, similar

01:41to her.

01:42But the perception of it, I'll come to you guys, the perception of it within the wider

01:46media, they accuse it of causing the rise in violence on London streets.

01:52Is that something that you disagree with or agree with?

01:56For me I disagree with it.

01:58I don't think that drool music at the moment is causing the violence at all.

02:02I just think it's an expression of what's actually happening or that's actually happened.

02:28I don't think it's causing the violence at all, I just think it's an expression of what's

02:58I'm trying to do a show in New York too, but you know, cops be on my body.

03:28I don't think it's causing the violence at all.

03:57I don't think it's causing the violence at all.

04:07home was being broken into by multiple suspects and that one of them was armed

04:12with a handgun. When officers arrived there approximately six minutes later

04:16they discovered a victim inside the house had been shot. They called the fire

04:22department who arrived and transported that victim to Cedar Sinai Hospital

04:26where he was pronounced dead some hours later.

04:31Oh Lord, wait. Michael Mary, Michael Mary. Billy Jean, Billy Jean. Good looks Michael Mary. Gifts.

04:49You know it's sad. It really is sad. It happens in hip-hop a lot for 20 years old.

04:55It's insane. It's so much potential.

04:59It really happens in hip-hop and I don't wish that on nobody but you know what I'm saying.

05:03It's not like you're ever going to see like Justin Bieber got smoked or whatever.

05:08You know what I'm saying.

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