Pop Smoke’s voice was more than music—it was movement. From the streets of Canarsie, Brooklyn to the top of the charts, he helped define a new era of New York drill and left an indelible mark on hip ...

K-pop trailblazers aespa are stepping into the metaverse once again — this time with a dazzling debut on Roblox. The four-member girl group, who launched with their own avatars, will headline aespa ...

Roblox, the immersive game and creation platform, has wrapped its first-ever offline pop-up in Korea, “READY, SET, ROBLOX,” on a high note. Running August 1–17 at Hyundai Department Store, Pangyo, the ...

On August 1, Roblox officially opened its first offline pop-up event in Korea, titled “READY, SET, ROBLOX.” With an average of 111.8 million daily active users globally, Roblox has become a cultural ...

Canarsie celebrated the late Bashar Barakah Jackson’s (aka Pop Smoke) birthday on Sunday, July 20th, with a parade and a festival at Canarsie Park. Audrey Jackson, Pop Smoke’s mother and founder of ...

YG PLUS, a subsidiary of YG Entertainment, has unveiled an exciting development for global K-pop sensation BLACKPINK on, you guessed it, Roblox! On August 25, BLACKPINK THE PALACE, an immersive fan ...

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Biggie. Tupac. DMX. We pay tribute to 63 stars who died too young. By Danyel Smith Pop Smoke, Lil Durk, Fivio Foreign and more have taken the sound that emerged in Chicago in different directions.

Corey Walker, one of the four individuals involved in the 2020 shooting death of Pop Smoke, apologized to the deceased rapper’s family before he was sentenced to 29 years in prison on Friday, February ...

Pop Smoke’s killer has officially been sentenced to 29 years in prison. For his role in the killing, Rolling Stone reports that Corey Walker pleaded guilty to home invasion robbery with a gun, gang ...

"There's no apology that amounts to the taking of someone's life," Corey Walker said in court on Friday, Feb. 21 Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...