A$AP Rocky and Rihanna's marital status caused some confusion in a Los Angeles courtroom this week. On Wednesday, January 15, Rocky's attorney Joe Tacopina attended a preliminary hearing before jury selection for the rapper's criminal trial begins next week.
Rakim Mayers, better known as the rapper ASAP Rocky, will headline the Rolling Loud festival and serve as a chair of the Met Gala this year — as long as he dodges a conviction at his trial for a 2021 Hollywood shooting.
The rapper, actor and designer arrived for the first day of trial on Jan. 21. He turned down a last-minute prosecution plea offer, and jury selection got underway.
Rihanna is said to be panicking that her boy toy, A$AP Rocky, could soon be sent to prison as he goes on trial Tuesday on felony assault charges.
A$AP Rocky accessorized his Bottega Veneta Large Cabat tote bag with four "R" clips representing Rihanna and their two kids.
A$AP Rocky will face judgment from a jury of his peers in his felony assault trial—but notably, none of those peers are Black.
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$AP Rocky's felony assault trial for allegedly shooting his former friend A$AP Relli begins on January 21 in Los Angeles.
The jury for the rapper's impending assault trial was set after the three-day selection process concluded on Thursday (January 23).
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.