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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Dalton

Rapper A$AP Rocky's lawyers will make their case at his felony trial over 2 assault charges

A$AP Rocky Shooting Trial - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A$AP Rocky 's lawyers will make their case and try to establish a counternarrative Friday at his trial in Los Angeles, where the hip-hop star and fashion mogul is charged with firing a gun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021.

They plan to call to the stand rapper A$AP Twelvyy, who, like both the defendant and the man he's charged with shooting, was a member of the A$AP Mob, a group of young artists and creators that formed at a New York high school nearly 20 years ago.

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