Producer Rico Beats has responded to followers asking for extra posthumous music from Pop Smoke, claiming that there isn’t any left.
Rico Beats was Pop Smoke’s co-manager, alongside Steven Victor of Victor Victor Records, earlier than the rapper’s tragic dying in February 2020.
On Monday (May 1), a screengrab of an alternate between Rico and a fan was shared on social media – the place the Philadelphian was candid about how a lot the possibilities of the discharge of unheard music from Pop Smoke.
When one fan pleaded for “some news on plans for Pop’s remaining music”, he responded: “Who said he had music left?”
“What else ya want?” he continued. “Pop died three years ago: how much music ya think he did in one year? Y’all gotta be real.”
He added that the Brooklyn star wouldn’t be blissful to have any music posthumously launched: “If Pop was alive he would not [have] approved of 99 per cent of the stuff they put out.”
Pop Smoke’s supervisor/producer says he has no extra music left within the vault. pic.twitter.com/7L11DXRIsA
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Pop Smoke’s property launched two albums since his 2020 dying. His debut album ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’, which was executively produced by 50 Cent, was launched months after his dying. In a three-star evaluation, NME mentioned, the report “serves as a testament to the strength, power and knowledge [Pop] Smoke held in his ambition to go to the very top.”
In 2021, his property adopted up with ‘Faith’, which NME referred to as “oversaturated with unnecessary features” and is an “obvious money grab”.
Other associates of Pop Smoke’s have hinted on the lack of music left across the launch of ‘Faith’. His finest pal, Mike Dee, advised radio host Kalisha Perera that “instead of dropping all 30 songs, I would have waited until now, till next year, that way his name will stay alive instead of just dropping it all at one time.”
The late New York rapper was shot useless throughout a house invasion within the Hollywood Hills space. Last month, a person pleaded responsible to the voluntary manslaughter of Pop Smoke and has been sentenced to 4 years and two months in a juvenile facility.