Rapper ASAP Rocky pleaded not responsible Monday to prices that he pulled a gun on a former pal and inventive colleague throughout an argument in Hollywood.
The 35-year-old, who has two youngsters with the singer Rihanna, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and one in all utilizing the weapon, throughout confrontations with Terell Ephron on November 6, 2021.
The rapper, whose actual identify is Rakim Mayers, was reportedly arrested in April 2022 at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport after arriving on a personal aircraft from Barbados, the place he and Rihanna had been on trip.
Ephron — also referred to as ASAP Relli — informed an earlier court docket listening to he and different members of the New York-based ASAP rap collective felt success had made Mayers conceited.
Ephron mentioned he informed Mayers he had “failed all people.”
“I simply needed him to listen to my aspect,” he informed the sooner listening to, testifying that Mayers had pulled a gun on him and mentioned, “I’ll kill you proper now.”
He claimed Mayers had fired his gun, with the bullet grazing his hand.
Mayers’ lawyer, Joe Tacopina — who has represented former US president Donald Trump — informed reporters outdoors the Los Angeles court docket that his shopper is hoping the case will go to trial by September.
“I need to get this executed and over so he can begin having fun with his household and transfer on,” Tacopina mentioned.
“We’re going to be quiet and we’re going to do that (case) in a courtroom and after we do, information will come out that present that he’s really harmless and he’s a sufferer on this case.”
ASAP Rocky shot to fame within the first half of the final decade with two mega-selling albums: “Lengthy. Stay. A$AP” and “At. Lengthy. Final. A$AP.”
In 2019, he was given a suspended jail sentence in Sweden after a struggle, in an affair that brought on diplomatic tensions between Stockholm and Washington, pushing then-president Trump to intervene.
AFP