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Jimmy Wopo

Travon Da Shawn Frank Smart (13 January 1997-18 June 2018) was an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 2018.

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Travon Da Shawn Frank Smart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 13 January 1997, and he began uploading original tracks to his SoundCloud account in January 2015. He accumulated millions of views on his YouTube channel, using the rap name "Jimmy Wopo". On 7 February 2016, he was arrested at a traffic stop in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Wopo and two others were arrested after two stamp bags of heroin and marijuana were found in their car. On 24 July 2016, Wopo premiered his debut project, the 8-track mixtape WOPONESE, on Daily Loud. At around 2:30 PM on 18 June 2018, Wopo was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and another passenger was wounded. Wopo died in the hospital at the age of 21.

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