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.

Rocky and Rihanna 's relationship status was debated in court before the start of his criminal gun trial. On Wednesday, Rocky's attorney Joe Tacopina attended a preliminary hearing where Judge Mark S.

A$AP Rocky rejected a plea deal from prosecutors in his Hollywood assault case Tuesday as the trial began in downtown Los Angeles, a little over two years after he was charged with opening fire on a former friend and collaborator.