{"id":301182,"date":"2026-07-20T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:32:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-pop-smoke-day-brings-canarsie-together-to-honor-late-rappers-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301182\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Pop Smoke Day Brings Canarsie Together To Honor Late Rappers Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family, friends and community members celebrated the life and legacy of late rapper Pop Smoke during the annual Pop Smoke Day.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Canarsie native, whose real name was Bashar Barakah Jackson, was a rising hip-hop star who was fatally shot during a home invasion in the Hollywood Hills in February 2020. He was 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Since his death, his mother, Audrey Jackson, has continued his legacy through the Shooting Stars Foundation, which provides resources and opportunities for young people in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The annual celebration featured a parade through the neighborhood where Pop Smoke grew up, along with activities and community programming for local families.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe cared deeply about his community,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;It helps me get through this because I know people are intentional about coming out to support his legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">During the event, elected officials honored Jackson for her continued work serving Brooklyn&#8217;s youth and preserving her son&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family, friends and community members celebrated the life and legacy of late rapper Pop Smoke during the annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-301182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}