So far this week I’ve covered three deaths due to coronavirus and one due to a drug overdose. Today, we have good old-fashioned murder.
Rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a home invasion at his Hollywood Hills residence. He was 20 years old.
Pop Smoke was best known for the song ‘Welcome to the Party,’ released a year ago and later made into remixes featuring Nicki Minaj and Skepta. If it weren’t for Nicki Minaj, nothing in the previous sentence would have made sense to me.
The rapper’s latest mixtape was released just two weeks before his death, in February of this year.
Hours before four masked men robbed and killed him, Pop Smoke posted a photo on Instagram of him and a friend holding stacks of cash. He also (accidentally?) posted his home address, which was written on a swag bag he was showing off.
Note to self: Don’t do that.
This is a Melo beat
[Chorus]
Baby, welcome to the party
I’m off the Molly, the Xan, the lean
That’s why I’m movin’ retarded
(That’s why I’m movin’ retarded)
Baby, welcome to the party, uh
I hit the boy up and then I go skate in a ‘Rari
Baby, welcome to the party
Bitch, I’m a thot, get me lit (Get me lit)
Gun on my hip (Gun on my hip)
One in the head (One in the head)
Ten in the clip (Ten in the clip)
Baby, baby, don’t trip
Just lower your tone (Lower your tone)
‘Cause you could get hit
[Verse 1]
Don’t let that Henny in my system (Nah)
I catch a body, next day I forget it (Next day I forget it)
Nigga, Dread just caught a body (Nigga, Dread just caught a body)
And that’s on the gang, nigga, I was just with him, look
Free all my rilla niggas, all my villain niggas
All my killer niggas out the cage
Since a youngin, nigga, I been drillin’ niggas
Ma, I’m sorry I’m stuck up in my ways
Ain’t nobody ever gave me shit
With this big chip, I had to get paid
And it’s 10K to go on stage
And you know the treesh gettin’ laid
[Chorus]
Baby, welcome to the party
I’m off the Molly, the Xan, the lean
That’s why I’m movin’ retarded
(That’s why I’m movin’ retarded)
Baby, welcome to the party, uh
I hit the boy up and then I go skate in a ‘Rari
Baby, welcome to the party
Bitch, I’m a thot, get me lit (Get me lit)
Gun on my hip (Gun on my hip)
One in the head (One in the head)
Ten in the clip (Ten in the clip)
Baby, baby, don’t trip
Just lower your tone (Lower your tone)
‘Cause you could get hit
[Verse 2]
It’s Big 092MLBOA (Uh), I make a call and it’s war
I bet I kick down the door, I bet I send him to the Lord, uh
Got a bad bitch from overseas
Got a 10 pack in my jeans, I’m in Manhattan in these stores, uh
Don’t try and run up on my V
I knock a nigga out his sneaks while I’m shellin’ down his V, uh
Double G for the tee
No Alicia, I got keys, don’t get your car Swiss cheese
Neno cooler then cooler, he still an ooter, he don’t settle for nothing, uh
Bluffin’, pussy boy, stop all that bluffin’
.380 hold a ruler, I know some niggas that’ll shoot you for nothing
Run, Ricky, yeah, he runnin’, run, Ricky, yeah he runnin’
[Chorus]
Baby, welcome to the party
I’m off the Molly, the Xan, the lean
That’s why I’m movin’ retarded
(That’s why I’m movin’ retarded)
Baby, welcome to the party, uh
I hit the boy up and then I go skate in a ‘Rari
Baby, welcome to the party
Bitch, I’m a thot, get me lit (Get me lit)
Gun on my hip (Gun on my hip)
One in the head (One in the head)
Ten in the clip (Ten in the clip)
Baby, baby, don’t trip
Just lower your tone (Lower your tone)
‘Cause you could get hit
Meet Me In Montauk 
I’m always careful not to post pictures of my fat stacks.😁