PnB Rock reportedly passed away on Monday afternoon (September 12) after he was shot at the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Police Department Captain Kelly Muniz wouldn’t reveal his identity but did say the victim was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital around 1:59 p.m. local time.
A tweet from reporter Philip Lewis read: “Breaking: PnB Rock has reportedly died after he was fatally shot during a robbery at the Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant in South Los Angeles.” He included the link to the L.A. Times story confirming his death.
PnB Rock (real name Rakim Allen) was with his girlfriend, Stephanie Sibounheuang, when the shooting occurred. Once the suspects got to Roscoe’s, Muniz said they brandished a firearm inside the restaurant and demanded jewelry from the Philadelphia rapper.
“He shot the victim and ran out the side door to a getaway car and then fled the parking lot,” Muniz explained.
Los Angeles Police Department investigators are examining security video from inside the restaurant in an effort to identify the shooter. They also are checking with surrounding businesses for any additional footage.
Rock rose to notoriety in 2015 with the single “Fleek” and went on to collaborate with a slew of notable artists, including Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Young Thug and the late Pop Smoke.
The rapper’s 2016 single “Selfish” peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest of the Atlantic Record artist’s career.
Rock leaves behind two daughters and Sibounheuang. HipHopDX sends its condolences to PnB Rock’s family, friends and fans.
RIP PNB Rock. Lesson to rappers. Stop flexing out West cuz they will gank you for yo shit and take ya life without hesitation. It’s real out here. It’s no joke, leave the flexing for the videos.
Not just rappers. They will kill you if they see you got something. Be as low key out there as you can.
Message!!
If I could add to this don’t even do it in the videos get yo millions in silence and ride off to the sunset. Why do you think the most powerful and richest people dress and act regular cause they know if they really start showing their wealth they will be targeted. HIDE YO WEALTH YALL envy is a mf.
..set-up!
Biggie,Pop Smoke, now PNB Rock…If I was an east coast rapper, I’d move much more cautiously than that. They all had something in common. They all were braggadocios and got caught slipping. This is why if you’re not from Cali, you’re supposed to have local homies from the area/set there to protect you cuz they know what to look out for. Never go out anywhere without either a strap or security. He didn’t have either. That was his fault unfortunately. Lesson learned. RIP PNB Rock.
He had been living in LA for a while now. Had shit to be with being from out of town. Being out there as long as he did, he should have known better though. LA is grimy.
Nah you N !ggers are Grimy Animals. This happens in every city Stupid B!tch
Cr@ck3rs ain’t no better. Look at all the mass shootings y’all have been doing across the country. Y’all kill men, women, and children. Disgusting heartless monsters
Yet another black man dead due to a thot and her need for validation on social media, and broke n!ggas with guns. RIP.
Young rappers and black men you have taken up the wickedness of white people and are shaming the black community with this bs. we never use to act like animals until we incorporated ourselves with white america. we have to do better. also in nyc ,la and Chicago invest in armed security when you visit.
The is simultaneously the funniest, saddest, and most racist comment I’ve read on this article. If it’s “white america”, why do you need armed security in all those liberal hell holes? It’s not white people doing these things.
Has nothing to do with white people.
The problem is that black people hate and despise each other.
White people are literally fighting a war right now in Ukraine. SMH. Stop all this race baiting shit. Everybody with a lick of sense knows that LA has gang culture and street shit going on 24/7. This isn’t a movie.
We have to better they can moderate the comments but we cannot keep acting like them.
Not just los Angeles didn’t one of these los Angeles drill rappers get killed in nyc we have to do better .
Damn. R.I.P.
Why is it mostly rappers getting robbed and never really ball players or celebs?
Didn’t Kim Kardashian get tied up and robbed in Paris a while back.
Right. You also know who has not been to LA. White people are getting their shit run daily. Home invasions are happening to people who aren’t hood every day in LA. It’s just a dangerous place in general, and if you’re a hood celebrity, you have a big target on your back.
Ball players aren’t criminals. Rappers are the only time criminal class people get famous.
The rookie RB from Washington just got shot for his car the other day. Derwin James got robbed his rookie year. Another player got followed to his Air B&B from LAX. Magic Johnson’s daughter and her friends got jacked. That’s just a few off the top of the head. Get your head out of your ass.
They get robbed too, but they’re not going to these spots. That Roscoe’s is right in the middle of the hood. Smack dab in South Central. Even you suburban white people who post here know better than that from the movies and shit.
Could you imagine if “west coast” pac had been killed out in New York, how quickly the west coast would have never forgiven that?? Like had pac, nipsey, and drakeo had been killed in nyc, that would have had some very drastic ramifications and would change how the protocol would have to change or there would be major issues between the twos relations. Who from the east coast can call and put them on high alert for having organizations that are setting people up like TMZ? This is kinda crazy…it’s instead looked at like he was lacking…somebody has to step in and speak to the hood and use their power to unite, instead of acting like they ain’t in it…and why do artists keep signing to empire?!! That shit is cleeeeeeeaaaarly a death wish!
Why does everyone always say RIP???? There’s an infinite amount of dimensions, and we’re only in the 4th. There’s no resting after physical death, the journey is only just beginning. Wake up guys.
Teacha
Maybe true, and if true, we won’t be ourselves. Oir human selves and existence will be forever gone, along with our brains, memories, personalities, and so on. We’d be completely different beings.
no lie,the university of Virginia has a department where they study kids (usually 5 or under) who remember their past lives. so while our human selves are gone, our memories still exist temporarily. that’s just in this dimension. plus i’m pretty sure the concept of ‘Life after death’ is rooted on the being remembering they actually died
And all the comments below are all facts… but damn man, how come you can’t just get robbed, how come you have to lose your life. Even the robbers, junk devilish man. RIP PnB Rock.
Sh!t is crazy since this no bail sh!t
It’s not related dumb**. LA’s Zero Bail started in February..LA has been wild way before that. It’s literally basics. There’s rising housing/living prices & wages aren’t going up. Fox News idjit.
Pnb put hands on lil b?
Stop dude
Never thought i would see the day but Slowly starting to hate alot not all of my race (too much dead weight)
Yeah, because it’s just black people killing each other. SMH. Right there in LA, they have Mexican and Vietnamese gangs that fuck just as much shit up. Poverty is a bitch. Don’t go around them waving food in their face. Common sense. Wack 100 does a lot of clown shit, but he literally had a Clubhouse post about this like two weeks ago and how dudes need to move when they’re in LA, and those rules apply for every big city right now. Look at Houston. Look at Atlanta. Look at Denver. Look at any one you want to minus the gang politics.
The problem is that, when you’re a celebrity or someone that has good things going on, putting your life out on social media while you’re in a location is instant issue, it’s millions of ppl watching including the scumbags. This is sad…
Here we go again. Add another one to the list. Killed by another black person. Don’t need to even read the story. Some of us lack morality or the balls to actually achieve something. That would mean putting in the work. Instead we kill each other then complain about the white man. They ain’t the ones running around killing rappers.
You mean just like all of the white people are killed by other white people that we get entertained by on the ID channel and Oxygen, and all of the Hispanic people get killed by other Hispanic people, and etc. You’re a rocket scientist.
And your a dumbass. Same ole strawman argument. Are we ever going to be honest with each other? We kill each other all day every day. It can be the usa or UK. Our numbers are way higher. We bullshit too much.
How is it a strawman argument when it’s true. You’re the dummy because you’re trying to make some kind of point that’s easily debunked every time.
He looked like a nerd
O-32
Senseless. It’s getting extreme out there in Cali right now. Not sure why you can’t just take pictures and post them AFTER you leave but this is crazy.
those children must be young he won’t see them grown up they won’t know and understand their father fuck that shit.
warning to all flossers you lookin like food out here these days the streets is hungry, tuck yo chain stay in your gated communities the streets is starvin
Vatos straight value a gold chain more than a human life. Fuck those putos homie! R.I.P. P&B Rock
It’s the 80s all over again. People dying over gold chains again.
Yep. Meth 2020s versus the crack 80s.
We need more cops, stop and frisk in every state, and life sentences. Bet the suspects have had run ins with the law before. I never listened to this guy, but he didnt have to die. All cuz his girl wanted to share with the world that they were eating chicken and waffles. Fuck social media.
It’s really sad.black killing fellow black something the whites can’t do.let’s stop the habit.in US everyone has a gun and you should be keen with the social media.what happened to pop smoke is the same shit that happened to pnb..RIP .
We have whole channels and shows dedicated to white people killing each other, and it don’t even be street beef a lot of times but that goes down too in the poor white areas. Go read some of these rural crime reports.
Do Black Lives Matter now?
Black lives being taken unleawfully by law enforcement who is supposed to protect is much different than street beef bruh. All colors and ages 0 to 150 die daily on dumb shit
So because someone black is killed it now means that lives don’t matter? I keep seeing this everytime a rapper gets shot but how is that logical? Of course black lives will always matter along with all other races why would a murder change that?
The point is marching when white folks kills black people, put black people kill their own and do nothing about it. Amazing how you missed that, but then again, same ole excuses
I don’t like that they are so quick to say his girl posted a pic on the gram and that’s why he’s gone.Do an investigation. Give it at least 24 hours before you you scar this young woman for life thinking she’s to blame.
No investigation needed. She’s going to have to hold that L. He even told her to stop doing that shit, but she’s addicted to the likes. He was in the wrong spot too, so it’s on him too, but in LA it goes down anywhere as evidenced by dude’s boy getting caught up while they were shooting at him at the Beverly Center. People who are like no way this is the reason have obviously never been out there. I go at least twice a year because my wife has family out there, but we are always cautious. They’re robbing affluent people for Rolexes and shit. It’s too many gangs and too many people who want a quick come up out there. Even when I leave the airport when I fly in, you have to be on high alert because they’ve been following people and jacking them if they think you got something and that they can get at you. It’s reminiscent of Miami in the 90s how people were getting got coming into town.
Her bf just got killed, if she’s online worried about what a bunch of trolls are saying then she’s been scarred
I only know like 5 black people that aren’t dumb fucks.
I know zero white people who aren’t dumb fucks so ?
Akademiks just released a interview they did like a week ago. And he said he almost got robbed out there recently and his girl was doing strange shit then too. Just saying…
This like the third mofo or something who gets murked right after doing an interview with him. Eerie shit.
Welcome home, brother!