A$AP Lou, the only white male within the A$AP Mob, hit the stand to testify within the ongoing trial of A$AP Rocky, who stands accused of firing a gun at A$AP Relli.
A$AP Lou gave Rocky’s case an enormous enhance when he testified that he was the one who recommended Rocky carry a prop gun after the rapper was a sufferer of a house invasion. Lou stated Rocky took the prop gun from a video shoot for the music “D.W.B.”
Lou stated all of Rocky’s shut associates knew he carried the prop gun, which was a duplicate of a Glock 26. Lou stated he modified the gun with a transparent prolonged journal to present the phony gun a extra intimidating look.
Rocky gave the gun again to Lou, who, in flip, flew on a personal jet and gave it again to the director of the video for “D.W.B.”
Final week, A$AP Twelvyy corroborated A$AP Rocky’s prop gun protection following the newest listening to in his ongoing gun assault trial stemming from an alleged 2021 Hollywood taking pictures incident concentrating on A$AP Relli.
On Friday (February 7), Rocky’s fellow A$AP Mob member took the stand, providing testimony centered on a prop gun Rocky allegedly carried.
“[Rocky] walked round with a prop gun,” A$AP Twelvyy testified. “Like a starter pistol, like a prop gun, as his protection.”
Twelvyy described seeing the prop for the primary time throughout the video shoot for Rocky’s observe “D.M.B.” within the Bronx, New York.
“The primary time I noticed it, it wasn’t on him or something,” he defined. “It was for a video shoot, a B&B video shoot within the Bronx.”
He recalled the scene as resembling a film set, full with props and a extremely managed atmosphere.
“It felt like a giant film,” he stated, noting that solely choose individuals, together with himself, Rihanna and different A$AP members, have been current for personal scenes throughout the shoot.
Twelvyy testified that after the shoot, he encountered Rocky with comparable props on a number of events.
“In September of the identical yr, I noticed him once more with the identical scenario,” he recounted, specifying that they met in Austin after Rocky contacted him. Regardless of the appearances of the prop gun, Twelvyy didn’t point out any intent from Rocky to make use of it aggressively, framing it as a substitute as a part of Rocky’s artistic ventures.
In stark distinction to Twelvyy’s portrayal of the prop gun as a video shoot accent, former A$AP Mob affiliate A$AP Relli painted a special image throughout his testimony throughout the trial final month. Relli alleged that Rocky shot at him throughout a heated confrontation on Hollywood Boulevard in November 2021. The incident marked the end result of what Relli described as a deteriorating 15-year friendship.
“Honestly, it was all like a film. It was bizarre, simply the way in which he was strolling,” Relli recalled. “There was no time to speak, no time for nothing.” He claimed Rocky taunted him earlier than allegedly firing a gun, which grazed Relli’s knuckles.
Dealing with two felony prices of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, A$AP Rocky may very well be sentenced to as much as 24 years in jail if convicted. His authorized staff argues that Relli’s accusations are financially motivated, pointing to a civil lawsuit Relli filed towards the rapper.
Watch a portion of Twelvyy’s testimony on the stand within the submit above.
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