Rakim Al-Jabbaar is the son of Big Al from the seminal rap crew Nemesis, a group out of Dallas. Al-Jabbaar released Freebird, his EP, and will play Trees on July 29.

A father and his 17-year-old son were charged with one count of murder for the slaying of late rapper PnB Rock, who was gunned down on Sept. 12. ... whose real name is Rakim Allen.

Rakim Al-Jabbaar has had a good year.The local rapper won a talent contest he had to be talked into entering at Trees, ... Big Al died when his son was 12, spurring him to write.

Freddie Lee Trone and his 17-year-old son have been charged with the killing of PnB Rock (real name Rakim Allen), Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced on Sept. 29.

Griffin’s lawyer, Robert Kalina, said his client was not aware that a warrant had been issued and insisted the rapper has made child support payments for his 14-year-old son since the boy was born.

In his memoir, Rakim takes us back to his origins in the early hip-hop scene in Wyandanch, ... My son rhymes and my daughter rhymes too. The kitchen table battles are probably crazy.

A man and his teenage son have been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of the rapper PnB Rock at a restaurant in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, the authorities said on Thursday ...