50 Cent has vowed to complete and release the late Pop Smoke’s debut album. Masked gunmen reportedly broke into the Welcome to the Party hitmaker’s Hollywood Hills property in the early hours of 19 February, firing multiple shots and critically wounding the 20-year-old.
The rapper, real name Bashar Barakah Jackson, was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but was subsequently pronounced dead.
Police later reported that the murder had been a “targeted” hit. At the time of his death, the rapper was working on his debut album – a hotly anticipated record following the release of his mixtapes Meet the Woo and Meet the Woo Vol.
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