Pop Smoke Mural No. 2

Pop Smoke mural in Brooklyn by Kenny Altidor, the rapper's portrait painted beside DMX and George Floyd against a Manhattan skyline.
Full view of Kenny Altidor's second Pop Smoke mural, the three portraits spanning the wall with the Manhattan skyline behind them.
Detail of the second Pop Smoke mural showing the painted Manhattan skyline and lettering alongside the portraits.

This is the second mural installation of deceased Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke. Haitian artist Kenny Altidor created it, and he's done several murals around the area, including one honoring the late, great Chadwick Boseman from Marvel Studios' Black Panther and his tragic passing. This mural shares space with venerable rapper and icon DMX and 2020 Black Lives Matter symbolic icon George Floyd, against a Manhattan skyline.

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Did you see this mural while Kenny Altidor was still painting it, or shoot it before the weather and the wall took their toll? Photos from other angles, shots of the artist at work, or pictures of tributes left at the base are all welcome, and so is anything that pins down the painting date. Full credit given to all contributors.

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🎨 Pop Smoke Mural in Canarsie: The Redone Tribute to Brooklyn's Own (Photos) Three murals were planned for Flatlands. Only one got painted, and Hattas Public Murals had to redo it. › 👑 Pop Smoke Mural No. 3: Kings of Brooklyn Homage Five artists, one Canarsie wall, and Pop Smoke standing between Biggie Smalls and Sean Price. › 👶 Brooklyn's Heartbeat: The Restoration of The Notorious B.I.G. Baby Mural A dispensary whitewashed Biggie and blamed the state. The state said it never asked. › 🚪 The Tale of a Hidden Mural and the Legacy of Rap Icons Biggie and Tupac are still on a wall in Bay Ridge, hidden behind a plastic salon ad. › 🎶 25th Anniversary of Notorious B.I.G. In 2017 a landlord's renovation nearly took down the King of New York. The block stopped it. › 🐙 The Artistic Tide: Vewer's Octopus Graffiti Masterpiece A purple tentacle reaches out of the letter E on a Brooklyn shoreline. ›
📍 Bashar Barakah Jackson, known as Pop Smoke, was born in Canarsie in 1999 and killed in Los Angeles on February 19, 2020. This is the second of the Brooklyn murals painted in his memory.

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