Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 – February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He was considered by many to be the face of Brooklyn ...

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Since the late 1990s, Atlanta producer Jonathan “Lil Jon” Smith has gone from pioneering “crunk” music, an energetic style of hip-hop fueled by 808 drum patterns and loud chants, to becoming an ...

So on the special date, 2/22/2022, we’re looking back at the greatest tandems in the history of hip-hop, based on the quality of their music and overall ... JT came home in 2020.

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A music executive who authorities say is a leader ... Eugene “Big U” Henley attends the premiere of docuseries “Hip Hop Uncovered” in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2021. (Leon Bennett/Getty ...

Weeks after Big U's arrest (on March 19, 2025), Tony Yayo - a member of G-Unit - discussed the recent arrest of the music executive ... Yayo described his NYC-based hip-hop group as a "militant ...

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On Thursday, the group’s agency S2 Entertainment released a statement apologizing for the video where they highlighted old-school hip-hop. They may have meant no harm, but people felt another ...

TEXAS HIP-HOP'S ... working on music projects. “To wait on 'Street Flava' and actually see (the song) 'Chunk Up the Deuce,' was a crazy experience,” he recalls about the 2006 video that ...