PnB Rock, born Rakim Hasheem Allen on December 9, 1991, in Philadelphia, emerged as one of the most melodic voices in modern hip-hop during the mid-2010s. Raised in the Germantown neighborhood under difficult economic conditions, he experienced instability early in life, including periods in shelters and time in juvenile detention. Those experiences shaped both his perspective and his songwriting, giving his music a raw mix of pain, ambition, and emotional honesty. By his late teens he had begun