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Blockstar on The M*rder of Pop Smoke, His Troubled Upbringing & More

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No Jumper

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4.44.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Blockstar tells his side of the events leading up to the loss of Pop Smoke. ----- 0:00 Intro 0:40 Grew up in Compton and kicked out of every schools, got 1 brother in jail 4:35 He got locked up many times since he was about 13 6:00 His whole family is b___d but wanted to do his thing and went Hoover 8:00 Says attention and recognition from the streets was his first taste of “clout” 15:20 Never had a father figure or role models 18:25 Relationship with Treyway 23:30 The Pop Smoke incident was supposed to be a robbery 25:20 Says he didnt know who Pop Smoke was 28:59 Says nobody was supposed to get h*rt, says he didn't know he was gonna be home 31:00 Him being a teenager, has nothing to do with his sentence, he was gonna get life 31:29 Says he got arrested 6 months after the fact 33:00 He went to school the next morning after what happened, the teacher was talking about Pop Smoke and honoring him 33:45 Riemoh asks if any of this was worth it? 37:30 Says he had all the good food in jail, Playstation, etc: "I was lowkey running things in there” 40:30 He never ran into Crip Mac coz he was in juvie: "I'm not fighting nobody ret**ded" 41:25 Adam says rappers in LA glorified home invasions for years 42:22 Says he doesn't fear for his life, but his PO is worried about him 44:45 When they picked him up, they said they had a warrant for something else but then once in he got booked they told him it was for Pop Smoke 52:30 "Let me clarify, I'M NOT SORRY ABOUT NOTHING! Ppl d*e every day and he was rappin about it!" 59:40 He says he cant be that bad if ppl loved King Von 1:02:00 He send his condolences and apologizes to the family, thats just the way he grew up 1:03:40 Says that kids should stay in school and have activities, away from the the streets 1:05:05 Tony Yayo says they will do it again, he doesn't know Tony Yayo 1:08:15 He agrees that he got off way to lightly 1:09:00 Says he's not the fall guy, well wont answer to that and wont answer if he's the only one out either 1:12:00 Says fans should be fans and stop getting into the streets stuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world and today we're bringing you guys one of the most anticipated

0:06.8

interviews in a while we've got Blockstar on the podcast.

0:11.3

How you feeling man? I'm feeling good. So you've been involved with a lot of high profile

0:17.6

which will certainly get to by the end of this interview but I figure let's start it off just

0:21.9

lay out the basic details. Where exactly are you from?

0:25.0

I'm from South Central, LA, Hoover, H-ray, you know where young Tedden them from.

0:31.0

You know, don't know over there there so what was growing up over there like

0:36.4

just like everything in the hood I originally grew up in uh Compton but from Compton not up getting kicked out of too many schools. So they end up moving me to LA. And once I went to LA I start

0:48.8

up over there and then getting put on and going through

0:53.0

through it as like being a young niggles from the hood.

0:56.0

Okay, so how many brothers and sisters you have?

0:58.0

I got one brother he in the county for a hot one right now.

1:01.0

He's talking about Treyway?

1:02.0

Nah, not. He ain't my brother. So he's not technically your brother? I thought he was your brother.

1:05.5

Nah, that ain't my brother. Oh, okay. Now that's my boy though. We're logging in but that ain't my brother.

1:10.0

But you guys been around each other for so long that it's like basically brother status?

1:14.3

Like 14.

1:15.3

Okay.

1:16.3

And you always had both parents around?

1:18.3

I have my mom and my, my dad in and out.

1:23.0

Okay, going back and forth to each other.

1:25.0

What kind of stuff were you getting in trouble that had them like move you to a different school out of Compton and everything?

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