The ripple effects of Pop Smoke’s murder have continued to impact the rap community. The rising artist was shot and killed in a Hollywood Hills home on Wednesday morning (February 19) around 4:30 a.m. local time.
Hours after Redman, Juicy J, The Game and a slew of other high profile artists took their shock to social media, 50 Cent and Nicki Minaj have weighed in, suggesting jealously played a role in his murder.
Pop Smoke Murdered During Home Invasion
“No such thing as success with out jealousy,” 50 wrote alongside a photo of himself with the burgeoning rapper. “Treachery comes from those who are close. R.i.P.”
Nicki Minaj — who collaborated with Pop Smoke on the “Welcome To The Party (Remix)” — shared a photo of the 20-year-old Brooklyn native to her Instagram account and wrote, “The Bible tells us that jealousy is as cruel as the grave. Unbelievable. Rest In Peace, Pop.”
Pop Smoke was seemingly on the verge of mainstream success. His latest — and what proved to be his last — project, Meet The Woo Vol. 2 — arrived earlier this month and featured contributions from Quavo, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign.
Oh sure, it was all jealousy…it had absolutely nothin 2 do with livin gangsta now did it?
Lmaooo right
To Him and the other commenter – Isn’t “Gangsta” living based on a foundation
of either assumed jealousy or abso loyalty? Isn’t that the gamble in living ‘gangsta’ style – you can never truly be sure of which card you’ve pulled nor which hat is the trick. Some people take the gamble, either way. Nevertheless, it’s cruel to die so young before balancing what eventually is discovered as the truth in the balance.
I don’t know you but you but your words speak louder than thunderous lighting. Words can come back and haunt you, envy is a murderous word and ppl are willing to kill because of it. Too many young brothers dying over chump change.
Its not jealousy. It’s about people out here starving and willing to not go hungry. Rappers be flashing so much there basically saying “rob me” smh