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This is Ten-Minute Murder.

Welcome to Ten-Minute Murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast. I'm Joe, the host, and thank you for being

here. And thanks to everyone sending in stories to 10 minute murder at gmail.com. I assume that I'd get a

few here and there, but I probably already have enough to do a whole episode, but don't stop sending

them. I want to make it a regular thing. And in case this is the first time you're listening and you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm going to start adding in an episode to what I already do, where I include listener submitted stories. But you have to tell the whole story because I'm not going to have time to go and research all of these stories that people send in. So tell me the whole story. Doesn't matter how long it is or how

short it is. It can be just a couple minutes or it can be a whole episode. It doesn't matter. But email it

to 10 minute murder at gmail.com and I'll read it on an episode. The story we're talking about today

is the home invasion that led to the murder of a rapper, singer, and songwriter.

His name was Bashar Baraka Jackson.

His rise to fame never got a chance to peek before he was gunned down.

We'll talk about his early life, his short career,

and the three adults and two juveniles that broke in and murdered him.

This is the killing of Pop Smoke.

Pop Smoke,

Bashar Bakara Jackson, was born on July 20,, 1999 in Brooklyn, New York, to a Panamanian

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