20-year-old fast rising American songwriter and rapper, Bashar Barakah Jackson, professionally known as Pop Smoke, has been murdered in his home on Wednesday morning.
TMZ reports that, the rapper was at his rented apartment in the Hollywood Hills at around 4:30 AM when two men wearing hoodies and masks broke into his house and fired multiple shots at the rapper. The armed men, left the scene on foot, after killing the rapper.
The “Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records” rapper was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood. No arrests have been made yet.
Pop Smoke rose to fame when he released an album last July and one of the songs, “Welcome to the Party,” blew up.
