This Drill sound is so intense yet so intricate although the instrumental sounds like the theme song to a horrible gang war, it is easy to hear how complicated the layering of this instrumental is, which is super cool. I could see UK legends like Wiley or Stormzy killing this instrumental just as easily as Pop Smoke and Quavo do. This track has an undeniable NY Drill sound to it that is obviously an ode of you will to the UK Grime sound. ‘Aim For the Moon’ is my favorite out of the songs including Quavo from this project. Considering Quavo is actually featured on three songs from this project, I would say he and Pop had awesome chemistry and that he thought Pop Smoke was great. Everything he seems to touch when it comes from the music industry turns to gold, and anyone with his co-signing is usually the next big thing in Trap music. QUAVOĮver since the Migos popped off in the early 2010s and became the blueprint for Pop-Trap music, Quavo has been one of the biggest certified tastemakers in the game. My three biggest Honorable Mentions would probably be ‘What You Know About Love'(which samples Ginuwine’s ‘Differences’), ‘Gangstas,’ and ‘Creature’ featuring Swae Lee. One more caveat is that I really could have written about more songs because like I said there are so many great ones. One caveat is that I did not include his smash hit ‘Dior’ on this list even though it is a bonus track ‘Dior’ is a total banger, and it definitely is one of my favorite Pop Smoke songs still to this day. With all of that being said, here is a list of my favorite songs from Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon. I really think he was going to be one of the biggest artists in the next 10 years. Pop Smoke was one of the most fun and unique up and coming artists in Hip Hop, and it is a real tragedy that he can’t continue to live on and contribute to the culture. Unfortunately, back in February, Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a home invasion by four men at his residence in the Hollywood Hills. Pop Smoke may have actually been bigger in the UK than he was in the United States at the time of his passing. He was the leader of the fast-rising Drill Music movement that has been becoming big in New York this sound is a derivative of the UK Grime music scene. For those who don’t know, Pop Smoke was one of the hottest rising Hip Hop artists in the game. It would honestly probably be easier to just do a normal review of this project than pick my favorite songs this album is honestly so good, and there are so many great songs. Instead of doing an actual review, I’m going to talk about my favorite tracks from Pop Smoke’s new posthumous release Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon. I don’t think I’m going to be doing any other posthumous album reviews, though, because I can’t be confident the artist who has passed would be 100% okay with the final tracklist and final cuts from the record. I did make an exception for the Mac Miller record that came out this year because it was supposed to be a sister album(and was written in conjunction with) to the last album released while he was alive. To be honest, I really don’t feel comfortable doing reviews of albums that came out after the artist has passed away.
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