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Rapper Rakim Allen, bigger accepted as PnB Rock, absolutely had his fair allotment of hardships growing up in Philadelphia. Born and aloft in Philly's Germantown with a audible mother and four siblings, Rock, thankfully, artificial some abiding friendships and still keeps his family close. "PnB" is absolutely an acronym for his adolescence artery corner, Pastorius and Baynton, and Rock says, "everybody from our block got PnB in advanced of their name." It stands for not alone Rock and his friend's adherence to one and other, but additionally their able ties to Philadelphia.

Unfortunately, though, the rapper still had to endure the rougher abandon of his neighborhood. "There was bristles of us, but now there's four of us," Rock explains as he talks about the bodies he's absent and the run-ins he's had with the law. Luckily, a aloft allotment of Rock's accomplishments was additionally music. His mother listened to a advanced of arrangement of genres, including archetypal '50s doo-wop—Rock cites the Flamingos' "I Alone Accept Eyes for You" as a surprising favorite—and Rock himself lists Tupac Shakur and Jodeci as archetypal rap and R&B favorites.

Now 25 years old—boasting a PUMA partnership for the latest Clyde Mid-Foil, a contempo Billboard Hot 100 hit (2016's "Selfish"), and a atom in this year's XXL Freshman Class—Rock is alone attractive forward. "We're activity to accept our time. PnB is like a movement, a accomplished movement is activity on," says Rock. He admires the A$AP Mob of New York, and consistently brand to beleaguer himself with his adolescent "PnBs."

Rock appear his admission album, GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions, at the top of this year through Atlantic Records—and the activity highlights not alone the R&B melodies and influences of the rapper's past, but additionally Rock's refreshingly raw and honest lyricism. Long-time romances, struggles from the past, and sometimes a quick yet cyclone of a adventurous fling, are all affected on through his lyrics. But it's Rock's nods to archetypal musicians and his constant band to Philly, which absolutely fabricated him the dream agent for PUMA's latest booty on the Clydes; the sneakers aboriginal fabricated for basketball abundant and addition stylish, hometown legend, Walter "Clyde" Frazier. PUMA additionally frequently supports accomplished artists in an arrangement of industries. As Rock himself puts it: "I'm agitation with PUMA—they got a lot of new wave, new talent, and they accumulate the new sauce."

PnB Rock's aboriginal achievement in what's acceptable one of Philly's best accepted festivals, Fabricated In America, is on Sunday, Sept. 3, at the aptly named "Rocky Stage." So as the rapper apparatus up for a apricot hometown show, Complex and PUMA took the time to babble and blur Rock in his admired streets of Philly. Showing off his adolescent "PnB" aggregation and different faculty of style, Rock's appearance in the video aloft provides a distinct, claimed attending into his activity appropriate now. He's affected those Philly hardships, but as the rapper himself explains, "those adamantine times fabricated me who I am."

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