Rakim Mayers, better known as the rapper ASAP Rocky, will headline the Rolling Loud festival and serve as a chair of the Met Gala this year — as long as he dodges a conviction at his trial for a 2021 Hollywood shooting.
The rapper, actor and designer arrived for the first day of trial on Jan. 21. He turned down a last-minute prosecution plea offer, and jury selection got underway.
Rihanna is said to be panicking that her boy toy, A$AP Rocky, could soon be sent to prison as he goes on trial Tuesday on felony assault charges.
The jury for the rapper's impending assault trial was set after the three-day selection process concluded on Thursday (January 23).
A$AP Rocky accessorized his Bottega Veneta Large Cabat tote bag with four "R" clips representing Rihanna and their two kids.
A$AP Rocky's felony assault trial for allegedly shooting his former friend A$AP Relli begins on January 21 in Los Angeles.
ASAP Rocky appeared at a Los Angeles courthouse on Tuesday (Jan. 21) as jury selection began in his criminal assault trial. The 35-year-old artist, born Rakim Mayers, is facing two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from an alleged altercation in Nov. 2021.
A jury of five men and seven women has been seated for the trial of rapper A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend.
TMZ reports possible jurors have been asked numerous questions about Rihanna and A$AP, as jury selection gets underway in A$AP's upcoming trial.
Jury selection began Tuesday after the 36-year-old Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, turned down a deal offering 180 days in jail, a seven-year suspended sentence, and three years probation if he would plead guilty to one of the two counts.
Chris Brown has faced numerous allegations of abuse and sexual assault after a 2009 arrest for physically attacking then-girlfriend Rihanna