CULTURETECHLENSPnB Rock
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07007 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5741.
PnB Rock, born Rakim Hasheem Allen on 9 December 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American rapper and singer whose stage name joins Pastorius and Baynton, streets in his Germantown neighborhood. He released his debut mixtape in 2014, signed to Atlantic Records in 2015, and broke through with "Selfish" (2016), certified triple platinum by the RIAA. Named to the 2017 XXL Freshman Class, he released the albums Catch These Vibes (2017) and TrapStar Turnt PopStar (2019) and appeared on features including "Everyday We Lit," "Dangerous" and Ed Sheeran's "Cross Me." On 12 September 2022 he was shot during a robbery at Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles in Los Angeles and pronounced dead at age 30; Atlantic Records confirmed his death the following day.
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PnB Rock, born Rakim Hasheem Allen on 9 December 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American rapper and singer whose stage name joins Pastorius and Baynton, streets in his Germantown neighborhood. He released his debut mixtape in 2014, signed to Atlantic Records in 2015, and broke through with "Selfish" (2016), certified triple platinum by the RIAA.
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- Also known as: Rakim Hasheem Allen, Rakim Allen
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no PnB Rock entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5741 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 215 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: DECEASED — 12 September 2022, Los Angeles, California (AP; Atlantic Records confirmation). Tribute treatment. CONFLICTS CARRIED: TrapStar Turnt PopStar peak: No. 4 Billboard 200 in one source tradition, "number one" (chart unspecified) in another. Carried unresolved. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Selfish" peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is RIAA triple platinum; Catch These Vibes peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 — NME/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. TrapStar Turnt PopStar's peak is reported as No. 4 (Billboard 200, Hip-Hop Wiki) alongside a Wikipedia lead summary saying "number one" on an unspecified chart — shown as a conflict, not merged. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5741-pnb-rock.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Sources
- TMJ4, Associated Press report (September 2022) — killed during a robbery in Los Angeles on 12 September 2022; Atlantic Records confirmed the death — https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/rapper-pnb-rock-killed-during-robbery-inside-los-angeles-restaurant (primary source · build store)
- NME (September 2022) — LA Times-sourced death details; "Selfish" peaked No. 51 Hot 100 — https://www.nme.com/news/music/pnb-rock-has-died-aged-30-following-los-angeles-shooting-3308675 (build store)
- Wikipedia, "PnB Rock" — born Rakim Hasheem Allen, 9 December 1991, Philadelphia; Atlantic signing 2015; XXL Freshman 2017; certifications — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PnB_Rock (build store)
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