05 Jan Pop Smoke’s Brother Reveals The Rapper Received Death Threats Before His Murder

Pop Smoke’s brother stops by Taraji P. Henson’s Facebook Watch series “Peace Of Mind With Taraji” and reveals the rapper was receiving death threats before his passing.

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The murder of Pop Smoke is still fresh on the mind of all of us as we struggle to make sense of the past year and a half. While authorities have found and convicted the five men involved in his murder, the whole situation still doesn’t feel real. Many have questions surrounding the situation of why anyone would want to harm a man who was just getting his foot in the door. Recently, Taraji P. Henson sat down with Pop Smoke’s brother, Obasi Jackson, to discuss how he’s dealing with the murder.

“All of that stuff he went through, it was just… People would put him down and count him out,” he explained. “There was a lot of threats on his life because of that. And people were trying to figure out where the threats were coming from. I didn’t think that anybody would do that and it’s just a lot that goes into it.”

“Me losing my own brother… I’m going through so many things,” he said. “I won’t be able to hug my brother again, tell him I love him again, I won’t be able to see him…I won’t be able to show him my accomplishments.”

“I’m a firm believer that men, Black men too, should be vulnerable…and allow themselves to open up and show the world what they’re feeling and who they truly are. Because we’ve been suppressed, we’ve been locked up and that’s where all these barbaric actions kind of come from. My mind can’t even grasp onto it sometimes.”

The episode focuses on sudden death and also features Asian Doll speaking on dealing with the loss of King Von.