Pop Smoke was tapped to be a federal informant, but he refused.

Before his decease earlier this year in February, Popular Smoke was being badgered by the NYPD to snitch on crips, just he never took the bait. According to a new report past the New York Post, the police unit tried to plow the rapper into a whistleblower confronting Brooklyn gangs, and they were non subtle.

Pop Fume was arrested and charged for reportedly transporting a stolen Rolls Royce Wraith for Los Angeles to New York in December. While he was in custody, Popular underwent an interrogation that constitute the NYPD trying to convert him into an informer. He was asked by the feds to leak information on gangs and also to share whatsoever details he knows nigh a shooting incident that took identify in Brooklyn in June 2019. Law enforcement claimed they had footage of the rapper driving near the scene of the crime. After refusing to cooperate, Pop Smoke was slapped with a state charge of criminal possession of stolen property and five other counts.

Co-ordinate to his lawyer, Pop Smoke would have never agreed to snitch under any circumstance. "Any conversation with Popular nearly cooperation was a very brusque one. It's something he would never entertain doing," said attorney Peter Frankel. The same NYPD gang unit detective was present when the FBI picked up Pop Smoke once more at JFK afterward he returned from Paris Way Week in January. The rapper was reportedly grilled about a shooting that took identify outside a nightclub in Queens on January iv, merely he once more refused. He was released on a $250,000 bond later on getting hit with a federal accuse of interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle.

"They hoped the force of the federal indictment would persuade him to cooperate — meet and speak with them," Frankel said about the NYPD putting pressure on Pop Smoke.

Pop Smoke too agreed to perform drug tests and submit them to U.Due south. pre-trial services. The following month the administrative role claimed several of the performers at the "BK Drip Concert" were known gang members and disallowed Pop Fume to perform at the show. He obliged and canceled his appearance, only just days later, he was murdered in his Hollywood Hills home.

Some fans take constitute it suspicious that the NYPD was coincidentally all over Pop Fume leading upwards to his untimely decease. Four male conspirators take, however, been arrested in connectedness with "The Woo" rapper'southward expiry, and criminal charges take been brought confronting them. The narrative still remains that the murder took place "during the commission of a robbery and a burglary," only fans have their ain conspiracies. Do you think Pop Smoke's expiry was more than a home invasion gone wrong?