{"id":51861,"date":"2025-07-09T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51861\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:43:08","slug":"pop-smokes-killer-wears-his-merch-in-new-viral-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51861\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Smoke&#8217;s Killer Wears His Merch In New Viral Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/pop-smoke\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>&#8216;s alleged killers, Blockstar, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/823036-pop-smoke-killer-blockstar-sentence-interview-hip-hop-news\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">real name is King Vermont Raskel<\/a>, is going viral for wearing the late rapper&#8217;s merch in a new photo on social media. In a picture uploaded to Instagram by No Jumper on Tuesday, he rocks a white hoodie with &#8220;The Woo&#8221; on the front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">The move expectedly has users in the comments section furious. &#8220;Bro about to be on a shirt soon enough gotta stop playing with his life,&#8221; one fan wrote. Another wrote: &#8220;This ain\u2019t even funny, it\u2019s emotionally abusive towards his family, loved ones and fans. Social media has to do better and stop letting people post whatever.&#8221; One more added: &#8220;Karma never misses, enjoy the time you have young man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who Killed Pop Smoke?<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">King Vermont Raskel was just 15 years old at the time of the shooting. In 2023, he pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery in 2023, and was given a four-year sentence, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/13\/entertainment\/man-involved-in-brooklyn-rapper-pop-smokes-grisly-2020-murder-shows-no-remorse-in-new-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">The New York Post<\/a>. Further details on his sentence are unclear, as juvenile criminal proceedings are confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">While speaking with No Jumper back in 2024, he explained why he doesn&#8217;t regret the incident. \u201cIt should\u2019ve never happened, but I ain\u2019t sorry. If I could go back, I\u2019ll go back. But I ain\u2019t sorry. N\u2014s die every day,&#8221; he said at the time. &#8220;[Pop Smoke] was rapping about it. All type of sh-t. So, I ain\u2019t sorry about it. I send my condolences to the family. I wish it never happened. But \u2026 I don\u2019t regret nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">He continued: \u201cNobody [was] intended to get hurt. \u2026We was just kids being kids \u2013 being kids from the hood. And [there was] too much movement \u2026 Movement from everybody. Too much sh-t going on. Just too much sh-t going on. It wasn\u2019t intentional. Growing up . . . my people, my family told me, \u2018You ain\u2019t sorry for sh-t. Whatever you did, you did it for a reason and stand on it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Pop Smoke&#8216;s alleged killers, Blockstar, whose real name is King Vermont Raskel, is going viral for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38828,4219,171,2260,38829,975,50,38831,38830,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-51861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-blockstar","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hip-hop-news","12":"tag-killer","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pop-smoke","16":"tag-pop-smoke-murder","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}