Even when you didn't see Pop Smoke, you heard him—and he achieved that lofty ideal of New York hip-hop ubiquity
in a recent interview. “Something about this is crazy,” he recalled, “when it was still underground.” “The rapper’s from Brooklyn and the producer is from London,” he added. “So when they come together they just make a crazy-ass song.”
The thrilling intensity of the explosion that Jackson was referring to has often been compared to the rise of, “We was in the lab last night comparing Pop Smoke to 50 when he came out.” Like many other New York-bred rappers across generations, Jackson was met with opposition from local authorities at multiple turns. When the Rolling Loud festival came to town last year, the NYPD
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