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.

A$AP Rocky rejected a plea deal from prosecutors for allegedly assaulting a former A$AP Mob group member in 2021.

A$AP Rocky faces up to 24 years in prison as his trial begins with explosive new defense strategies and career-changing implications for the hip-hop star

A$AP Rocky has elected to reject a plea deal to serve 180 days in jail in his gun assault case and now could face up to 24 years in prison.

ASAP Rocky appeared at a Los Angeles courthouse on Tuesday (January 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 November 2021.

Jury selections started in the case against A$AP Rocky, who is charged with allegedly firing a gun at a former friend, Terell Ephron, in 2021. The rapper plead not guilty to two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm during an incident in the streets in Hollywood,