Pop Smoke’s Best Songs

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Pop Smoke‘s rise to the top of New York’s burgeoning drill scene captured the attention of the rap world. Riding the wave of “Welcome To The Party” and “Dior”,” he entered the 2020s as one of the most exciting and unique MCs. Quickly becoming one of the marquee names in rap, his sound took over the nation. Later influencing the likes of Kanye West to drive into drill music, he took the genre and put his own energetic spin on it.

Blending drill and trap into an electric sound, he released his debut mixtape ‘Meet the Woo’ in 2019, He would soon follow up the breakout record with it’s sequel, ‘Meet the Woo 2.’ With so much ahead for Pop Smoke (whose full name is Bashar Jackson), he was tragically shot to death in his Hollywood Hills home on February 19, 2020. His first full-length, studio album would release months after his passing. ‘Shoot for the Moon, Aims for the Stars‘ debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales reaching over 250,000. Executive-produced by 50 Cent, the albums’ booming success had obvious dark undertones in the fact that it would be the last record with full input from Pop Smoke.

There’s no denying that Pop Smoke is one of the biggest what if stories in rap. While he only released music for a few years, he was able to curate a heavy catalogue of bangers within a brief span of time. We can only wonder at where he would’ve taken the sound over the coming decade. Today, we dive into the ten best songs from his vault. pop smoke dior shirt