Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon (Deluxe)

At its original 19-track length, *Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon* was a brawny last hurrah for Brooklyn MC Pop Smoke. The addition of 15 unreleased songs for the deluxe version turns the official debut of a tragically murdered star into a comprehensive archive of unrealized potential. Pop Smoke’s range expands just a little bit further here, the additions finding him dabbling in Afrobeats (“Tsunami”), downtempo R&B (“Backseat”), and spacey trap (“Be Clearr”). The expanded edition also doubles the original’s guest list, adding marquee names like Jamie Foxx, Gunna, Young Thug, Davido, Burna Boy, and A Boogie wit da Hoodie. There are also verses from Brooklyn MCs and longtime Pop Smoke affiliates Fivio Foreign, DAFI WOO, and Dread Woo. If there is a single song on *Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (Deluxe)* that comes off as more disturbing than Pop Smoke could have foreseen, it is “Hotel Lobby,” where he remarks, “I got a feeling n\*\*\*\*s tryna line me.”