'It's sad, it's frustrating, it's infuriating': Mourning the loss of slain rapper PnB Rock
by Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times
Sep 13, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — For a stretch of time in the mid-2010s, the voice of PnB Rock was inescapable on hip-hop radio. Almost as soon as he arrived on the national scene from Philadelphia, he was in demand, a master of the hip-hop hook, soaring on YFN Lucci's "Everyday We Lit" and Kodak Black's sentimental smash "Too Many Years." Crossover success wasn't far behind — from his song "Horses" off the "Fate of the Furious" soundtrack and from his 2019 feature alongside Chance the Rapper on Ed Sheeran's song "Cross Me."
Fans were drawn to his style of melodic rapping, shining on choruses that burrowed into ears. The emotion and vulnerability
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