Rapper A$AP Rocky may take the stand in his own defense at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The attorneys at the hip-hop star's Los Angeles trial made the revelation in conversations with a judge. They say he could take the stand early Tuesday.
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Tacopina said before the trial that Rocky was “eager to tell his story. He would love the opportunity to do so.” Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, would likely testify that a gun he fired twice — in a scuffle with a former friend on a Hollywood street corner in 2021 — was a starter pistol that only fired blanks, and that he carried it for security.
“Security and I thought it would be a good idea, because of the prior violence,” Levin said. “It’s just a nonlethal form of self-defense.”
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