Burgeoning rapper Pop Smoke was reportedly shot and killed during a home invasion on Wednesday morning (February 19).
According to TMZ, the 20-year-old Brooklyn native was at a Hollywood Hills home when two men dressed in hoodies and masks broke into the house around 4:30 a.m. local time.
Police said the men fired multiple shots, fatally wounding Pop Smoke. They then fled on foot. Emergency responders arrived at the scene and attempted to deliver CPR before rushing him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood where he died.[apple_news_ad type=”any”]
The home reportedly belongs to Teddi Mellencamp’s husband Edwin Arroyave who owns several homes in Los Angeles, leading authorities to believe Pop Smoke was renting the property.
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There was a party or some type of gathering prior to the shooting, although it’s unclear if Pop Smoke knew his attackers.
As of publication time, police haven’t apprehended any suspects. The investigation is ongoing.
Pop Smoke’s latest album, The Woo Vol. 2, arrived earlier this month and featured collaborations with Quavo, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign.
Do better black men, you wanna be hard, in gangs being ignorant. smarten up its 2020, stop dying like flies
Shut the fuck up this dude was the next big thing have some respect
What are u talking about black men are dying everyday regardless if they are in gangs or want to be hard u dont even know the specifics on what happened to this young bul couldve been killed for a number of different reasons to me it sounds like u are the ignorant one honestly im a black man a father and i work i dont sell drugs and have no gang affiliation but that doesnt mean i cant walk out my door and be murdered all the same its truly sad that when something like this happens to someone that made it out we blame it on gang ties or being hard when thats not always the case
Well, he is a gang member so….
Jealousy is a motherfucker!!! You start to wonder if its better off being broke.
DAMN RIP. Was going to be a big artist, shame for NY.
Smh man wtf is going on?!! Nigga is the worst… I fuckin hate niggas man…. straight haters like a muthafucka… I swear… niggas can’t have shit man… nah Man…. fuck man…20
Years old In his own crib smh
There was just an indictment on his gang. Then he got killed. Thoughts from anyone? I questioned if he snitched before this happened.
Different Woo Buddy
Ppl like jayz. Ti. Snoop. Game and everyone ‘pro black’ do everything 2 empower blafk ppl but tell them go to school and ztop joining gangs
Obv was the evil white man. Same man shoot up chicago and nipsey
Every single time with you eh? You’re THAT GUY. Obnoxious loser.
Live by it die by it, history shows this repeatedly RIP
Nobody’s safe dam Hollywood hill’s dam bet money they were blacks and im a black man this shit is super crazy kill that man like that
I had to look up his name when I saw it trending. I checked him out and listened to a few songs. Straight garbo
Black community lost yet another member. Serious question – When is the #BlackLivesMatter protest taking place? *crickets…crickets*
Protests happen and are feasible when an officer of the law kills an unarmed minority (usually African-American). This happens a lot and the cops are usually not punished. This makes folks mad. Now what’s the difference between the scenario I just pointed to versus one black man killing another African-American? Why protests in the first but not the second scenario? Because if a black citizen is identified as the culprit, that person will be arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to prison. There is not a need to protest when the offender is being properly punished. Protests become necessary when police criminal wrongdoing is ignored.
Your argument is a red herring. It makes no sense but nice try attempting to smear BLM for wanting an end to police violence and the cover ups that follow. Take a seat bum.
More often then not, a false version of the police officer vs the suspect situation is reported and a protest occurs, but when the facts come out the response usually is “so we have to find the perfect victim to combat this problem?” Which is a sidestep to the issue. All sides have their legit PROBLEMS and no one owns up to that FACT. Look back at the dozens of cases and see where it was found out that the mike brown and trayvon among many were misreported. Had the full FACTS come out there wouldnt even be a black lives matter movement. Tho there should be a movement, the ferocity of blm was based on falsities.
“what’s the difference between the scenario I just pointed to versus one black man killing another African-American? Why protests in the first but not the second scenario? Because if a black citizen is identified as the culprit, that person will be arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to prison.” theres only one problem with your argument, the one problem the likes of yourself ALWAYS gloss over whenever you advance this “but suspect gets arrested, charged and convinced” response , and that is this: the arrest rate for murder is low, and capturing the right suspect is even lower, statistically speaking. many black men get shot and killed everyday in the hood without the right suspect actually being brought to justice due to things like people not wanting to come forward and “snitch”. now let me ask you, with the exception of nipsey hussle, how many of the murdered rappers suspect has actually been caught, let alone charged and convicted?? we still do not have the right person who killed x, who killed jam master jay, who killed big L. hell, we STILL don’t know who killed tupac and biggie to this day!
now i could get into what cases BLM incorrectly points to as an example of police murder, as thats one of the main issues with blm and how they act about every damn case that involves police and a black person, but i’ll set that aside.
so yeah, before you call a logical fallacy on someone (which you did with saying “red herring”), assert that their argument “makes no sense and tell them to take a seat, make sure you actually got all your basis covered on whatever line of reason and all facts/evidence to support your claim you attempt to argue. until you actually address the problem with the low rate of arrests and right suspect of being charged and conviced, then you need to stfu and stop trying to dismiss black on black murder as something to protest as black people are killed way more by their own than the police. sorry that this fact hurts you. now you take seat fool.
Im glad thats your take on it.. bc moms dads bros dads kids ect have a lifetime 2 recover from dead family by gangs that happen 20x as much as any murder.. so yeah its all good as long as the killers jailed???
sorry bro, but like one commenter pointed out, you’ve ignored all the unsolved cases of murdered black people in the hood, and all the unsolved murders of rappers. your argument doesn’t hold up very well because of this error you made.
Were the suspects wearing MAGA hats?
In Hollywood of course lol
wow….smh. The sad part is it was probably someone he knew or knew of and they were probably at the party.
Definetaly at the party
God bless the dead but his music was trash.
Welp, when will we realize that big assed elephant in the room? While we go at white folks who try to counter protest with blue lives matter, etc, we also need to be going directly into our own communities and changing the scope. Living like gangsters will always yield these results. Just like drinking and drugging too much. We have to educate people on what their bodies are capable of, and show that manhood isn’t earned by being the toughest guy on the face of the earth.
Fuck that, gang hang nigga! Come to my hood, we rob n kill ya! Idgaf about yall, we thuggin!
you’re so tough! i’m scared… shaking in my timbs. can’t even claim what “hood” you’re in. #PussyInternetThug
Wasn’t he beefing with a photographer?
Lets see if that hypocryt TI talks about this. He probably will keep silent while trying to surf the net to find videos of cops arresting black people.
Here come the “OMG, he’s such a legend” comments when all he was known for was one song, stealing a rented car and fighting with a photographer.
Living that gang life and stealing people’s rolls got him popped/smoked
shame.. not my type of hip-hop, but “dior” aint bad. shame nonetheless. these young dudes gotta be more careful about how they move and what they post on social media. Pop clearly showed the address of the house on a luggage tag on his OWN social media (people on his boy’s account are foolishly accusing him of setting Pop up, who showed part of the house number but posted beverly hills, where the house isn’t)
I guarentee the 4 men who killed him he knew thats what ya get for bringing hoodrats to the hills dont see why anybody woild be surprised…
It’s funny how ppl talking shit about black on black crimes when white people murder each other and on top of that do other sketchy behavior and their status and respect stays the same and continue to move the same
Black on black crimes are disproportionately higher. They kill each other at a higher, and faster rate then anything you hear TI or the mainstream media will tell you. But no one talks about it. It’s easier to blame everyone else and not have any accountability
Exactly you understand for every 1 black person in this country there is 3 to 4 white people right? Wayyy less whites killin eachother by % compared to the % of black on black death but the media and dipshit celebs lookin for 15 minutes of fame try tellin you its white people and cops killing black people when literaly black people are killing eachother probably 10X more than any white person or cop killing them but keep playin that divisive victem bullshit
The media and the left would rather spin the narrative into something it’s not. It’s cool to push the whole “systemic racism” thing. It’s not helping anyone though. Shit like this happens everyday. Except now it’s an artist who loses his life at 20. This entertainment site is becoming more of a political tool that reads like an obituary.
The left? do you even know what that means?
The left is the Democrat/Socialist party.
The Democrat party are about as left as my right testicle. The “left” is certainly not aligned with the media, which is controlled and owned by the ruling classes who favour the right because it works in their interests (i.e. not left, which is all about the working class – a.k.a. you, me and everyone else that isn’t a millionaire). Stop using buzzwords the media sneak into your consciousness when you don’t actually understand what it means
Both left and right are just two sides of the same jooish shekel. The jooish financial elite controls both sides and pits us against each others. You know CNN is owned by Jeff Zucker? He is jooish. Fox News is part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. He is also jooish. Trump’s three biggest donors are all jooish. See a pattern here?
The Left? do you even know what that means?
Those artists got paid for their art Jay and ti rap about numerous topics throughout their careers clearly tell me you’ve got selective hearing
Yup suddenly so woke once it became popular so they can get rich off it just like they got rich off when it was popular for every black man to be wearin timbs a D hat and slangin rock they take advantage of tje black community for wealthy just like good ol al sharpton
And how can you push a narrative that had been active and factual decades before social media?
Disproportionately higher because the conditions of the environment between the two are disproportionate. Majority of crimes that occurs happen in Urban areas, the majority of black people live in Urban areas. The police already had a nasty reputation before the media “blew it up”
Your whining about the environment being bad while all the ones getting wealthy off it sell a violent lifestyle so whos fuckin fault you think it is? No snitchin anytime someone looks at ya wrong bust their head use kids to sell dope so you dont catch a charge yea thats all the white mans fault go talk to the jay z’s and t.i’s who got rich off portraying some lifestyle and selling it gett off your victem shit
And also society likes to call black victims lately but nah I think society likes to throw rocks and hide they hands and don’t like to be called out on their bs…But we do need police our own and build as a collective…all hands on deck
You know this is actually not true, don’t you, or are you just dumb? Every race murders people of their own race in the 85% to 90% range because usually people of your own race is who you know and associate with. This shit isn’t rocket science. I mean this shit isn’t even hard to find. Another dumb fuck post talking about race shit when somebody lost their life, which has nothing to do with it.
And also bro was just moving super sloppy truth be told I wouldn’t throw a party at my house if I was that famous…
Whatever record label this dude is on is cashing in today hope they give some of those royalties to his family and make sure there straight and pay for a nice funeral
Not likely. They are probably worried about if they are going to get their advance back
Was askin for it why not throw parties with more hood rats and vultures you wont EVER be targeted if this is an example of anything its keep your circle tight and dont bring the desperate trash from the hood to the hills with you they will kill ya rob ya or extort ya 9/10 times just glad it wasnt a good rapper and at least it was this dumb fuckin clown good riddance
These known rappers need to stop posting their personal sh!t on social media.
how does TMZ always know about a death before anyone else?
LA is their town. Harvey is a former lawyer, so he has contacts everywhere there.
Guess he got popped and smoked.
Lmao just read the caption to that post of his he got zipped up and bagged alright body bagged fuckin loser
once ur mothers dead aint no one showing up to ur funeral.
i can say this because i know u have no other family or friends to make fun of another persons murder.
Got family got friends got no love for dumb fucks who sit and act like gang bangers then when their caps get peeled back expect sympathy now dont you got a dick to go choke on somewhere?
i can tell you this for sure. you wont even get a news blip when ur black ass gets “capped.”
Lmao im white you fuckin presumptious retard and did i say i peel caps back? Fuck no i actualy live life legaly and make good money doin it which affords me time to come laugh at cock suckers like you and pop smokes dumb dead ass and i dont need to talk about on the internet what i would do to somebody because im not a keyboard warrior bud try breaking into my house and find out what happens 2 160 lb mastiffs and 30 guns in my gun safe with ammo for days with it and have been thru 100+ hours of concealed carry and defense training i dont make threats or play the tough guy because i do not need to anyone that knows me knows what will happen if you threaten my house or family dont need threats now go find some sock to jerk off in fuck boy haha
my man checks this website every 2 hours. such a gangbanger. why you on the internet when theres so many caps to peel. only caps you peel is your snapback from ’88.
Good! Another parasite eradicated. Make America great again!
America was great before the English arrived lol
You do realize if the english never did what they did odds are you would be chucking a spear in africa right?
What did the English bring when they arrived that they didnt get some elsewhere?
The result of the english coming here resulted in the atlantic slave trade which is what brought africans to the united states…so my point is if they wouldnt have been brought here they wouldnt be here today
Yes, they would still be in AFrica. Remember they never left the continent even with all the resources they had there to build ships, but they were too dumb to build ships that would last at sea. So they never left the fuckin continent until the jooish slave traders started BUYING them from their own people. That’s right folks. Blacks werent forced, dragged in chains into those slave ships. They were fucking bought. From another black man who sold his own brothers and sisters to the jooish slave traders.
Well, English, the language, for start. Also, the English People!! They simply had the GREATEST EMPIRE IN HUMAN HISTORY! A small island conquered more parts of earth than any other empire ever did, thru technology, discipline and Intellect. Britain controlled more territory across the world, for longer, than any other nation point blank. Kind of funny that their offspring (us, the USA), kicked them out then took their spot. We brought vaccines, electricity, space travel, antibiotics, the internet, Air Conditioning, almost every popular form of modern music and cinema, to name a few things, thanks to them bringing THEMSELVES and their history, tenacity and conquering ways. Just those few things came to be. Maybe read a book and learn some history before making a dumb ass comment trying to be intelligent. Stupid!
America didn’t exist before the English dumbass. It wasn’t a country lol. Large portions of what today is America, belonged to Spain, and other countries. If the English didn’t colonize America, as OP said, you’d be in a worse country. Then, imagine a world without the inventions America introduced. The First mass produced automobile, the first vaccines, the computer, internet, airplanes, phones, light bulbs, ect… Hating America may be popular in the media, but fuck them, America has brought the entire world into today’s future. Without America, the world would not be nearly as advanced as it is. The main inventions you rely on in everyday life came from American entrepreneurs, and it occurred because they had great monetary incentive to create such inventions. Getting rich is the American dream, and that dream leads to amazing innovations.
That’s so hilarious that you seem to think the English made America what it is today. You need to go back and actually learn you history…..and I don’t mean your bs English history. Your knowledge is very limited on this matter!!!
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Karma gonna catch u fuccin’ internet trolls in real life one day. Keep the same energy.
Karma is bitch you don’t want to fuck with
I hear the ignorance of the priveleged white male here commenting on our people and demeaning them as usual. First of your knowledge of the world and true history is limited. You “White Supremacist” whom are the benefactors of the hard work of my “African Ancestors” who came here in chains sold and stolen from the “Motherland” Africa against their will have a lot of nerve to even speak the way you do about us. When our African Ancestors the Egyptians and Nubians and other African tribes were thriving and mining the gold and developing the land and building Pyramids and Libraries and creating Irrigation systems and other inventions, your ignorant ancestors were still in caves lying with dogs and practicing barbaric rituals.
The European aka ” White Man” learned from our Ancient Ancestors and stole everything they could not take or were freely given from Africans all over the continent, especially “Kemet” aka Egypt.
They burn the Libraries and shot the broad noses off of the Ancient Statues such as the “Sphinx” for example. Europeans started their destruction and bought their babaric ways to Africa and took control of most of it’s countries over the centuries. Africans were traveling to the Americas way before barbaric, diseased , wicked Europeans ever thought of it. They were trading with the Myans, The Incas and Aztecs for example and taught them how to build Pyramids.
The “MOORS”for example conquered Spain and ruled there for over 700 years. For that reason alone many European “Italians” are part African but won’t admit it.
Europeans take credit for many inventions that their “Slaves” invented. Africans in America invented many things such as the gas mask, the street light, the cotton gin, helped invent electricity in it’s earliest forms,car engines, and the list goes on and on. Do your research and read a book called
“BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER”.
The African woman had to breed babies for “White Massa” and the African man had to breed with her to produce the biggest and best
“chattel” slaves so they could sell them. Chattel Slavery was a business and “commidity” for the white man to thrive and get wealthy.
Without us “African Americans ” or descendants of Africans there would be no you “White Man” as you know yourselves. Our Ancestors breast fed yours so you might survive. You all are so Ungrateful and blatantly ignorant. My people do need a wake of csll and stop self hatred and killing one another in cold blood over jealous and envy and material things. Unfortunately we learned from our teachers, our *massas” on how to be just as barbaric to one another as your race and “European Ancestors” have been to us.
By the way don’t come for me unless I send for you. Queen Amira
Daaaang didn’t know who dude was til Monday gone n he already got his cap peeled back, fucked up tho. Goes to show…Don’t floss on social media
Okay, but did Game get a tattoo on his butt of him yet? If not, then games a hater for sure!
How you accidentally post your location and not expect LA wolves to come see you? Niggas always have to post for likes and for what? Gillie da kid said it best today . If you in another city for business purposes then do business and keep it moving and hire security like everybody else Fuck you posting for chicks and the weed man to come through? Young artist it’s not just your fans following you on social media. Wolves follow ppl as well so they can get some sort of info on your ass and then ride on your ass till you don’t breath no more.
Hell Boys is the only one talking sence. You up and coming rappers, you need to listen to a dude like Hell Boys. Obviously he’s been around for a minute. I don’t know him, never met him. But what’s right is right. And bullshit is bullshit. Read what he’s saying about the shorties and the likes on YouTube. There’s other ways get popular. And the easiest best way to do that is to rap dope. That’s how you do it.
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Bro chill the fuck out like he was mad famous now he in a Breyer place livin better so he don’t need all the hate damn
They did him dirty. It wasn’t necessary to kill him, they could have robbed him and left it at that. Sounds like some amateur shit, hope they get caught.
Or they covered up killing him with the robbery. A bunch of dudes in hoodies and masks in Hollywood Hills, getting away clean (for now). Sound like it might of been made to seem that way.
Again….I’m TIRED of niggas in 2020. Guess nothing gonna change smh….
poor kid. 20 years old is way too young, especially when it looked like things were about to start taking off for him.
Fucking hell! Niggaz get robbed everyday B
Yes another jealousy thing again. When will it ever stop.
Damn. I would have liked to suck his dick before this happened. RIP.. Yes I’m gay… so what??
Suc on this.40 call. disrespectful muther fucker