ASAP ROCKY. Two weeks after her arrest, rapper and Rihanna’s sidekick, A$AP Rocky, released the video for “DMB,” her new song.
[Mis à jour le 06 mai 2022 à 11h58] Two weeks after his arrest in a shooting case, rapper A$AP Rocky returns to music and unveils his new title, BMD, released with its music video. In the video, we discover Rihanna, his companion, pregnant with their first child. “Marry me,” read A$AP Rocky’s grillz (tooth jewelry), while Rihanna’s wear a “yes” in response. This is not the first time that the star of Barbados appears in a clip of the father of her future child: in 2013, we discovered the artist in the clip of the song Fashion Killa.
A declaration of love to Rihanna (rapper style) therefore, but also a tackle to Chris Brown, the singer’s former companion, who had been found guilty of assaulting Rihanna in 2009: “I don’t beat my dog, I need my female dog”, launches A$AP Rocky in the song DMB.
A$AP Rocky arrested in shooting case
Released on bail. After being arrested by the police on Wednesday April 20, 2022, rapper A$AP Rocky finally returned home a few days later, without however being out of the woods. According to several American media, the rapper had been arrested for “assault with a deadly weapon” at Los Angeles International Airport, while returning from Barbados with his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, pregnant with their first child. “Rakim Mayers, better known as A$AP Rocky, was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a November 2021 shooting, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the matter,” the US site reported. NBCwhich confirms TMZ.
According to the same source, A$AP Rocky is the subject of an investigation opened by the Los Angeles police, for having shot a man on the evening of November 6, 2021. The alleged victim claims, still according to NBC, which site the report of police, that the rapper allegedly “shot him three to four times.” In a statement posted on social media, the Los Angeles police confirmed the information, explaining that this November evening, an argument had escalated and “resulted in the suspect firing a handgun at the victim”, who did not was only slightly injured.
33-year-old Rakim Mayers, a Los Angeles resident, also known as music artist A$AP Rocky, has been arrested in connection to a shooting that occurred in the Hollywood area in November of 2021. pic.twitter.com/YeV9w2udDL
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) April 20, 2022
A$AP Rocky’s lawyer confirmed his arrest to the media. The rapper was released later that evening on $550,000 bail. Rihanna’s companion was returning by private jet from Barbados, where the singer is from, and where the couple had to endure rumors of deception and separation, since denied.