Song of the Day #4,312: ‘Welcome to the Party’ – Pop Smoke

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.

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