Blockstar, one of the alleged killers of Pop Smoke, has spoken about the 2020 murder of the rapper in a new interview with No Jumper.
On July 4, the out-on-bail suspect, who was a juvenile at the time of the murder, expressed no remorse for his actions. Pop Smoke was killed during a home invasion in Los Angeles.
“I’m not sorry about nothing,” Blockstar stated. “It should’ve never happened, but I ain’t sorry. If I could go back, I’d go back. But I ain’t sorry. People die every day. [Pop Smoke] was rapping about it. All types of stuff. So, I ain’t sorry about it. I send my condolences to the family. I wish it never happened. But I don’t regret nothing.”
He continued, “Growing up, my people, my family told me, ‘You ain’t sorry for nothing. Whatever you did, you did it for a reason and stand on it.’”
Blockstar was one of four people charged in Pop Smoke’s murder. Three of the defendants were minors at the time of the crime.
They settled their cases and were sentenced as juveniles. Corey Walker, the only defendant charged as an adult, is awaiting trial.
Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion. Blockstar refused to disclose whether he or another defendant was the shooter, but he insisted the murder wasn’t a setup.
“It was a robbery,” Blockstar said. “Nobody sent us. Nobody did none of that. That’s all false information.”
He claimed that he and his co-defendants had no intention of killing Pop Smoke. Blockstar admitted he didn’t think anyone would be home when they targeted the mansion.
“Nobody was intended to get hurt,” he said. “We were just kids being kids—kids from the hood. There was too much movement, too much going on. It wasn’t intentional.”
Blockstar served a few years in jail and believed his sentence was too light, though he didn’t suggest what would have been a more appropriate punishment.