PnB Rock obit

PnB Rock Shot Dead in Los Angeles

The 30-year-old Philadelphia rapper was the victim of a robbery at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffle

 

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Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was shot dead today (September 12) in a robbery attempt at a restaurant in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times and TMZ report. Police told the Times that the artist suffered multiple gunshot wounds when the unknown assailants robbed him of his jewelry at the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles location on Main Street and Manchester Avenue and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 30 years old.

Born Rakim Hasheem Allen on December 9, 1991, PnB Rock grew up in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood. The musician’s stage name PnB Rock is derived from the corner of Patorius and Baynton streets in his hometown. Rock’s father was murdered when he was 3 years old; his uncle, a father-figure, when he was 15. At 19 years old, he was sentenced to 33 months in prison.

In 2014, PnB Rock released the song “My City Needs Something,” a lament for the violence he experienced as a youth; the video features a child shot while playing basketball. “People were dying, people were getting killed by cops,” he told The Fader in 2016. “If I listen to that song, I’ll cry.”

PnB Rock dropped his debut mixtape, RnB, in 2014, catching the attention of Atlantic Records, which quickly released “Jealous,” his breakthrough 2015 single with Fetty Wap. A member of XXL’s 2017 Freshman Class, Rock would go on to release two solo studio albums: Catch These Vibes in 2017 and TrapStar Turnt PopStar in May 2019. In 2020, he shared a “Ordinary,” a collaboration with Pop Smoke, and, in 2021, “Rose Gold” with the late King Von. Other major collaborations from across his career include songs with Ed Sheeran and Chance the Rapper, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Kodak Black, Nicki Minaj, and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie.