Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
PnB Rock reportedly shot and killed
thefader.comRakim Hasheem Allen, the Philadelphia rapper and singer known as PnB Rock, was shot and killed Monday afternoon at a Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles location in Inglewood, according to reports from TMZ and the Los Angeles Times.
The FADER has reached out to PnB Rock's representative and the Los Angeles Police Department for more information. Police were reportedly called to the scene at 1:23 p.m where Rock was eating a meal with his girlfriend.
A source tells TMZ that Rock was the only person attacked and the shooter stole several gold and diamond chains from Rock before fleeing the scene.
Read Next: Listen to “Fendi,” Nicki Minaj’s first new song post-retirement Allen was raised in Philadelphia's Germantown, taking his stage name from Pastorius and Baynton, a nearby street corner.
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