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US Rapper A$AP Rocky Charged Over Shooting

    Advertisement US rapper A$AP Rocky was charged Monday over an alleged shooting in Hollywood last year. The 33-year-old, whose real name is Rakim … Continue reading US Rapper A$AP Rocky Charged Over Shooting


(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 13, 2021 US rapper A$AP Rocky arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. – US rapper A$AP Rocky was charged August 15, 2022 over an alleged shooting in Hollywood last year. The 33-year-old, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 13, 2021 US rapper A$AP Rocky arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

 

 

US rapper A$AP Rocky was charged Monday over an alleged shooting in Hollywood last year.

The 33-year-old, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, faces two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said.

Mayers is alleged to have pointed the gun at a one-time friend during an argument in November.

In a later confrontation between the two, he is said to have drawn the weapon and fired it twice, leaving the former friend with what police described as “a minor injury.”

Mayers has been ordered to appear in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday.

The “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)” artist was arrested over the incident at Los Angeles International Airport in April when he arrived on a private plane from Barbados.

US media outlets reported that he had been on the island with his then-pregnant girlfriend Rihanna.

The entertainment and fashion mogul behind the hits “Diamonds” and “Umbrella” gave birth to a boy on May 13 in Los Angeles.

In an interview with GQ magazine published in May 2021, Mayers called Rihanna the “love of my life” and “the One.”

New York-born Mayers was previously arrested in Stockholm in 2019 over a street brawl.

He was held in Swedish custody for a more than a month, in an incident which drew global attention, and was handed a suspended sentence.

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Nipsey Hussle gets posthumous Hollywood star
Slain rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot in Los Angeles, was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Monday.

The gang member-turned-community-activist died in a hail of bullets three years ago, in an episode that triggered an outpouring of grief over a life of music and activism cut short.

On what would have been his 37th birthday, Hussle was awarded a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

“Nip would have been honored by this moment,” Hussle’s long-term girlfriend Lauren London told a large crowd.

“I think he would want everyone to remember that you can’t get to what’s possible unless you commit to moving forward.

“That doesn’t mean forgetting where you come from, but it requires acknowledging the reality you were born into and the power you have to change that reality for the better.”

Raised in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, Hussle, who was 33 at the time of his death, had transformed the block he used to hustle on into a retail, job-creating hub for his Marathon Clothing company.

But the “Racks in the Middle” artist remained linked to the gang-ridden world he grew up in, and was killed after telling his attacker there was talk he had been “snitching.”

Eric Holder, 32, was convicted of murder in July. He is expected to be sentenced on September 15.

Thousands of people gathered in April 2019 for a service in Hussle’s honor, with Stevie Wonder and Snoop Dogg among those paying tribute.

In a letter read during the service, US president Barack Obama wrote, “While most folks look at the Crenshaw neighborhood where he grew up and see only gangs, bullets and despair, Nipsey saw potential. He saw hope. He saw a community that, even through its flaws, taught him to always keep going.”

Hussle was posthumously honored with two Grammy Awards in 2020 for best rap performance for “Racks in the Middle” and for best rap/sung performance for “Higher.”