Rapper PnB Rock, best known for his 2016 hit song “Selfish,” died Monday after being shot during a robbery at a Los Angeles restaurant, according to reports from the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. He was 30.
Los Angeles police Capt. Kelly Muniz told the L.A. Times that a suspect showed a firearm inside the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles and demanded items from the victim before shooting him and fleeing.
The victim was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead just before 2 p.m. local time. USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for PnB Rock and the Los Angeles Police Department for more information.
The Philadelphia rapper born Rakim Hasheem Allen also known as Grundle as well as PnB Rock released his first mixtape in 2014.
A year later, he dropped his debut single, Fleet followed by Selfish which reached No. 16 on the Billboard rap chart and sold more than 3 million copies.
Throughout his career, Rock collaborated with an assortment of marquee rappers, including 2 Chainz, Russ, Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj and, most recently, Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd on 2021’s Forever Never.
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