Pop Smoke helped shape Brooklyn’s drill scene, an emerging web of young artists who posit that New York can be just as interesting as an importer — and mutater — of other regional sounds. Early Wednesday morning, Bashar Barakah Jackson, better known as the Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke, was shot and killed in Los Angeles following a home invasion. He was 20 years old. At the time of his death, Jackson had been making music for less than 18 months; nevertheless, he’d become perhaps the most unmissable young rap star in New York City.

The Traitors castle is located in a very beautiful part of Scotland. Picture: BBC By Alice Dear @According2Al Everything you need to know about The Traitors' filming locations including Ardross Castle and exactly where it is. Listen to this article Loading audio... The Traitors is back for a second series and Claudia Winkleman and 22 new contestants have travelled to the Scottish Highlands for the ultimate game of deceit.

Elizabeth Williams UPDATE 2:22 PM PT -- Tekashi just spilled the beans on the Times Square shooting involving Chief Keef. 6ix9ine admitted to arranging the hit, promising $20k to the triggerman. However, that amount was reduced to just $10k after Tekashi learned the hit man only fired one shot and missed his mark. UPDATE He also detailed the incident from July 2018 when he was jumped and kidnapped while sitting in a vehicle -- attorneys played the dash cam video from the event -- and disclosed his former bodyguard, Harv, was a part of the plan to rob him.

The Room By Jonas Karlsson, Neil Smith Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleThe RoomAuthorJonas Karlsson, Neil Smith Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Independent Bookstores Bjorn's new job is not going well. His co-workers are insufferable, his boss is constantly belittling him, and it's all keeping him from getting any work done — or climbing the ladder in his faceless bureaucracy. But it all changes one day when Bjorn finds a tiny, hidden room where he can step away from the troubles of his oppressive open-plan office.

After her mother's death, Jennette wrote that she was glad she was too upset to eat. "At least I feel thin and valuable and good about my body," she wrote, "my smallness." But when she went out to dinner with friends not long after, she ate everything she ordered and downed a bottle of sake. Realizing later that she could just throw it all up, she recalled feeling "victorious," thinking it was "