Pop Smoke’s older brother Obasi Jackson and King Von’s ex girlfriend Asian Doll got candid about losing a loved one in a new installment of Taraji P. Henson’s Facebook Watch series, Peace of Mind with Taraji.
“Me losing my only brother, I’m going to miss so many things,” Jackson said of “The Woo” rapper. “I won’t be able to hug my brother again, tell him I love him, see him again. [I] won’t be able to play basketball with him again, work out with him again. I won’t be able to show him my accomplishments.”
Jackson shared that just the weekend before his death, Pop had a deep conversation with his family. “Me, my mom and my brother sat in a room for hours which had not happened in years,” he said. “That last conversation was ‘Okay, I know my brother loves me and he knows I definitely love him’ and he said he loved me.”
Pop Smoke was killed in February 2020 at age 20 during a home invasion robbery in the Hollywood Hills. “I’m a firm believer that Black man should be vulnerable,” Jackson said of the grieving process.
Asian Doll shared an equally heartbreaking account of losing her “soulmate” King Von, and the moment she found out. “Actually when he had passed away, when they said he was in critical condition, he had already passed away,” she explained. “Somebody from the hospital got in contact with me, one of the nurse’s daughters, and she was just was crying on the phone. She was like, ‘Asian I’m so sorry…my grandma works at the hospital, he passed away, they put an X on his bag.’ So, once they said he was dead on social media I already knew.”
She also shared that her “whole world just crashed” after his death, and that their split was less than a week before. She revealed she was “real hard on him” at the time, noting, “I would think like…nah, it’s impossible that Von would ever go out how he did.”
Von died in November at age 26 after being shot at an Atlanta nightclub.
Watch the full episode here.
