Pop Smoke is killed in Los Angeles

Pop Smoke was killed on February 19, 2020, in a home invasion in the Hollywood Hills. He was twenty years old. He had one official mixtape out and another finished. He'd just sat for the Vogue photoshoot. The grief in Brooklyn was specific. He was the kid from Canarsie who'd actually made it out, and the sound he'd built had become the soundtrack of a borough. The dance scene that was still nameless absorbed the loss and kept moving. A lot of people will tell you the bounce got a little heavier after February. They mean it.