PnB Rock

PnB Rock occupies a tender, painful place for me. Rakim Allen turned a tough Philadelphia upbringing into music that constantly slipped between rap and melody, finding sweetness inside hard truths. Signing with Atlantic in 2015 felt like the start of a long arc, which makes his death at thirty in 2022 so hard to sit with. What I admire is that his voice carried both vulnerability and swagger without ever feeling forced. He never got the full career he deserved, but the catalog he left behind still resonates, and I think his melodic instinct quietly shaped a generation of rappers who sing.

Name (English)

PnB Rock

Name (Japanese)

PnB ロック

Reading

PnB ろっく

Born

December 9, 1991 – September 12, 2022

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / musician

• Official sitehttps://pnbrockofficial.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/pnbrock/
• Xhttps://x.com/pnbrock
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PnB%20Rock
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/PnB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28155029

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.