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Pop Smoke's First And Final Album Falls Between Two Worlds

The rapper quickly drew attention over the course of 2019, as one of the newest and brightest stars of an emerging generation of New York artists.
The rapper Pop Smoke, whose posthumous debut album was released July 3, 2020.

It's been five months since Pop Smoke's death and just over a year since "Welcome to the Party," the first single of his debut mixtape, began snaking through the firmament. Then it was joined by the even more irresistible "Dior." That music remains an artifact of the New York summer — the songs that once soundtracked the city's revelry have now been refashioned , which only further cements his growing legend. In the studio, though, these hits were what he was up against.

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