After his arrest, ASAP is detained for two weeks by Swedish police, throwing his tour plans into chaos. But the governor of the prison denies these claims - saying after a recent refurbishment it's in "good condition", and that all inmates have access to a bed and TV. While it is ASAP and his entourage who are locked up over the incident, one of the two men they allegedly fought with also finds himself under scrutiny by the police.
He is investigated by Swedish authorities for abuse, assault and attempted assault. ASAP isn't the only rapper to have found himself in trouble with the Swedish authorities. G-Eazy, real name Gerald Earl Gillum, was arrested in Sweden in for assault, possession of drugs and use of narcotics. This is the sad truth Let's call it what it is. He should not be behind bars right now.
My heart goes out to my brother asaprocky and his team. We're riding for yall. JusticeForRocky FreeRocky. After two weeks behind bars - and as Swedish authorities decide to hold ASAP Rocky for an extra week - Donald Trump says that he is trying to secure the rapper's release. He tweets to say he is in communication with the Prime Minister of Sweden, prompted by a conversation with Kanye West. So many people would like to see this quickly resolved!
Sweden should focus on its real crime problem! The rule of the law applies to everyone equally and is exercised by an independent judiciary.
Political interference in the process is distinctly off limits! On May 25, , Rocky released Testing to generally positive reviews from critics. In its second week, the album dropped to number 15, with 26, album-equivalent units 1, copies. The following week, Testing dropped to number 22 on the chart. However, on January 23, , Tyler, the Creator announced this album never existed. Rocky said that he sought a "bigger platform" for him and his collective with the deal.
In , Mayers served two weeks in Rikers Island for drug dealing, where he shared a cell with future rapper Casanova. On July 19, , he was arrested after his alleged participation in a brawl that took place in downtown Manhattan involved a year-old artist named iRome. In July , he was sued for allegedly violently attacking an innocent man after being spotted doing illegal drugs in a clothing store in New York.
He was later arrested for assaulting two amateur photographers who took photos of the incident. That incident ended with a plea bargain where he pled guilty to grand larceny for trying to take their cameras. He was charged "with misdemeanor simple assault, a class two misdemeanor". The case was dismissed after a witness failed to appear in court. The woman later filed a lawsuit in July , asserting that she still suffered certain conditions as a consequence of the alleged assault.
Mayers stated that he never touched the woman in question and that she "should have known that there could be trouble in place with so many people". The lawsuit was settled between the two in April In , Mayers was involved in a fistfight in New Zealand after refusing to let a man board the elevator he was on.
In January , Mayers was involved in a scuffle in Toronto. A video shows him holding a bottle while barking at a man kneeling on the ground while holding his face. In July , Mayers was arrested initially for aggravated, then for simple assault in Stockholm, Sweden, after an altercation in the street against Mustafa Jafari and another person that involved Mayers and three of his entourage on June Jafari was beaten, kicked, and cut with broken bottles when down on the ground.
He suffered several cuts, requiring stitches, and a fractured rib. Mayers uploaded two videos of the incident to Instagram. In the first, he and his entourage repeatedly ask two young men, including Jafari, to stop following them as the latter complains about his headphones.
In the other, created from footage of assorted events, Jafari's headphones break during a scuffle, and he is seen hitting Mayers' bodyguard with them. A woman is also seen in the video, accusing the two men of groping. Both Aftonbladet and TMZ have also published videos showing part of the scuffle. Mayers published an edited video on Instagram where some things had been removed.
Surveillance footage shows the initial contact where the bodyguard attacked Jafari. Henrik Olsson Lilja, the defense attorney for Mayers, maintained that his client acted in self-defense after being attacked by Jafari.
Following the altercation, Jafari was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Mayers' bodyguard filed a counter-complaint against Jafari, and Jafari was initially suspected of harassment and minor assault or possibly attempted assault. The investigation against Jafari was dropped as prosecutors said he acted in self-defense, after being grabbed by the neck and pushed by the bodyguard.
Mayers was arrested after being allowed to finish his gig at Stadion. Rocky mentioned several times in the talk that he doesn't think the Harlem he grew up in doesn't exists anymore. He argued that the historically vibrant neighborhood has lost its character and that where once kids had fun in the streets there are now "police everywhere.
Rocky said his sense of style was influenced by watching hip-hop videos as a kid. When he was starting out, Rocky made a habit of referring to himself as a weirdo because of the way he dressed and the kind of music he listened to, but he's done with that now. The influence of Houston hip-hop on Rocky's music is well established, and while listening to the legendary Houston hip-hop group the Geto Boyz was his first exposure to the sound, it was "Still Tippin'" in that turned his world upside down.
Rocky's red-carpet get-down, meanwhile, was to show up dripping like a rich grandmother, with a silk scarf jauntily knotted around his head as casually as a hoodie, a pile of pearls swinging from his neck, and a lacy blouse, buttoned low. If that doesn't sound particularly radical today, that's because Rocky's been carrying the flag at the front of menswear's charge toward more fluid silhouettes and accessories since Instagram was invented. In fact, a decade before he wore a kilt on the cover of GQ, he wore one in Harlem.
Did he care? I do it on some punk shit. Like the similarly fashion-obsessed Kanye West and Frank Ocean, Rocky has parlayed his status and fame and style into a gate-crashing multidimensional artistic practice. He is an actor, having appeared in 's Monster, which follows a year-old honor student on trial for involvement in a murder in Harlem.
He is a designer who is as comfortable overhauling his favorite Needles track pants as he is creating stilettos with Amina Muaddi, as he did last year. His dream collaboration, he tells me, would not be in music or fashion but with A24, the cool-guy Hollywood film distributor behind 's Waves, one of Rocky's favorite films—a relentlessly gripping and profoundly vibey picture that vividly reflects Rocky's own creative priorities.
Nothing—not money, not fame, not the prospect of top chart positions or gold Grammys or other traditional metrics of musical success—gets Rocky out of bed like the pursuit of elevated taste value. Anything can have elevated taste value, and to Rocky, it's painfully obvious when something, especially an outfit, does not.
That shit don't make that shit fleek. If you wear a good fit around Rocky, he'll remember it for the rest of his life. Ask him to tell a story from a night out in Harlem a decade ago and he'll start by listing what everyone wore, down to the shoelaces.
Rocky's fashion projects have a much smaller audience than his music does, but his impact on the fashion world has arguably been more profound. He claims to be the inspiration behind DJ collective turned streetwear brand Been Trill, which helped launch the fashion careers of Matthew Williams, Virgil Abloh, and Heron Preston, the first two of which are now among the most powerful American designers in Paris, and the third has a new creative directorship at Calvin Klein.
He was an early booster of Shayne Oliver's provocative Hood By Air label, which continues to influence avant-garde streetwear. He has impeccable taste in collaborators to this day, often working with designers and brands—Marine Serre, Jonathan Anderson, Japanese hippie-streetwear label Needles—just before they blast off into the stratosphere. As a result, Rocky's imprimatur on a garment instantly makes fashion insiders pay attention, and designers look to him for approval and endorsement.
Given his style-god status among late-millennial and Gen Z fashion freaks, Rocky's co-sign is downright crucial. After the successes of Kanye West's Yeezy imprint and the pastel-hued Golf Wang label belonging to Tyler, the Creator, is Rocky planning to launch a full-fledged brand of his own?
Again: elevated taste value. Rocky and Rihanna try not to be photographed together by the paparazzi. A few nights after we talked, Rocky joined Rihanna at West Hollywood celebrity hang Delilah, his first trip to a club since before the pandemic started. Rihanna arrived first, slipping into a private dining room. Rocky followed several minutes later, as if perhaps his presence was coincidental. Well after the rest of L.
On a Zoom call a few days later, I ask Rocky about the outfit he wore that night—a black leather trucker jacket, black Rick Owens boots, and black leather pants from his Marine Serre collaboration.
A fit that originated during one of his bleakest moments, it was now worn during one of his happiest and most triumphant, waltzing out of a club with one of the coolest, most beautiful and successful women in the world, all while half pretending he isn't really living this particular dream at all. Rocky's sitting in his garden in front of a fountain. He takes a drag from a joint the size of a Cohiba and leans back.
How will I execute this? God is good. For real. And everything that I envisioned in prison came to fruition. And I prayed! I really wanted to bless that situation and move on from it in a positive way. I was praying to stay strong, and God got me through shit like it was nothing!
That shit was nothing. It was nothing, and now it's everything. When not even a month in solitary can suppress your creative zeal, your irrepressible confidence, your deep faith, the world on the other side looks like yours for the taking. Things that might have terrified Rocky a few years ago—like a relationship—are new opportunities to embrace change, to discover who he really is.
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