FEATURED ASAP Rocky Charged With Felony Assault For Shooting ASAP Relli

[rip.dilla]

What career this delusional ass nigga think he got?

Keeping Rihanna knocked up is a career?

Got a fashion career too

Modelling for some huge European fashion brands and whatnot

 

[LurkerSix]

So, I kinda forgot what the incident was about so i figured i'd look it up in some articles. I'm not gunna quote all of it in them, but yea.........this nigga going to jail. From the defense to the story about how this went down, he not getting off on this planet lol. Better hope Rihanna pays Trump to pardon him.

'Rocky turned around and shot me': Rapper's childhood friend testifies about Hollywood shooting

Rakim Mayers and Terell Ephron, better known as ASAP Rocky and ASAP Relli, met in high school in New York. But one November night in 2021, tensions erupted into a fight on a Hollywood sidewalk. Ephron testified that Mayers shot him, grazing his hand.

www.latimes.com

This story is from 23' talking about what happened and lead up to the shooting. I know its a long post even tho i left shit out.

Rakim Mayers and Terell Ephron, better known as ASAP Rocky and ASAP Relli, met in high school in New York.
Both were members of ASAP, which Ephron described on the witness stand in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday as “a conglomerate of young men that have many different talents.” Even as Mayers became a famous rapper and fashion icon — and millionaire many times over — the two were like “brothers,” Ephron testified.
But one November night in 2021, tensions erupted into a fight on a Hollywood sidewalk. Ephron testified that Mayers pulled a gun from his waistband and shot him, grazing his hand.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Przelomiec asked how money was distributed within ASAP. “It’s not,” Ephron replied, testifying that his income now comes from real estate in Costa Rica, “private equity” deals and unspecified investments.
Even as he denied being jealous of his old friend, Ephron admitted that Mayers made “open-ended promises” to support potential business ventures, then never followed through. Ephron felt once Mayers made it big, he forgot about the group that helped him succeed.

“He’s the top capo — he got put in a good position through ASAP.” Ephron testified. “Everybody’s looking at Rocky like he’s got the answers.”

Ephron was blunt about the current state of the group: “Everybody’s broke or bums.” Some of the original members died of drug overdoses. One was again living in a housing project. Another was homeless, Ephron said.

A month after sending the texts, Ephron was in a car with Jabari Shelton, another founding member who went by ASAP Bari, when Shelton got a call from Mayers. Shelton put the call on speakerphone, and Ephron said he heard Mayers invite Shelton to his performance at ComplexCon.

Shelton refused, telling Mayers to “stop having your assistants hit me,” Ephron testified. “Out of nowhere,” he recalled, “Rocky says, ‘F— that n— Relli.’”

After overhearing the conversation, Ephron said he sent a message to one of Mayer’s friends, calling the rapper a vulgar name.

The evening of Nov. 6, 2021, Ephron was sleeping at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. He woke up to see he’d missed calls from Mayers and two other members of ASAP: Illijah Ulanga, nicknamed ASAP Illz, and Jamel Phillips, known as ASAP Twelvyy.

According to text messages shown in court, Mayers wrote to Ephron, asking “Wya?” — short for “Where you at?”

Using FaceTime, Ephron called Mayers and told him, falsely, he was staying at the W hotel. Mayers, who could see the room on FaceTime, said, “That’s not the W. That’s a bum-ass hotel.”

Ephron agreed to meet Mayers at the W. “We was just going to link up, talk,” he recalled thinking. “There was a little bit of tension so I thought there might be some roughing, but I thought we were going to walk away like brothers.”

Ephron walked down Hollywood Boulevard toward the hotel. Mayers was asking where he was, “so I started jogging.” He was on Argyle Avenue, he testified, when he heard Mayers say, “What now, p-?

He said he saw Mayers “coming in hot,” with Ulanga and Phillips behind him.

In a confrontation partially captured by surveillance cameras, Mayers grabbed him by the collar, Ephron said. Ulanga tried to break it up. Then, Ephron testified, Mayers pulled a handgun from his waistband and pressed it to his chest, stomach and head.

Ephron said he told his onetime friend: “Shoot that s—. Why you brought a gun if you not going to use it?”

Some people walked by. Mayers put the gun back in his waistband and started to walk away, Ephron said. When he saw that Phillips was putting away a pocketknife, he said, he felt betrayed.

“Seeing red,” Ephron followed after Mayers and Phillips, airing ASAP’s dirty laundry, he testified. He was “letting him know how everybody feel — because nobody’s brave enough to say how they feel about this man.”

Ephron brought up ASAP Yams, a founding member who died in 2015 of a drug overdose. He called Ulanga “a crackhead,” and noted Phillips was living “back in the projects.”

“I felt this was my time to get everything off my chest,” Ephron testified.

As he followed them onto Selma Avenue, “Rocky turned around and shot me,” Ephron testified. He felt his hand get “hot.”

Przelomiec showed a photograph of Ephron’s left hand, the knuckles of several fingers skinned raw.

Ephron testified he grabbed Ulanga and “used him as a shield.” Przelomiec asked, “Did you intentionally put Illijah between you and the defendant?”

“Yeah. Yes.”

Mayers was moving back and forth, Ephron said, trying to get a clean shot. After firing three or four shots in all, he testified, the rapper ran off.

About an hour later, Ephron returned to the scene and picked up two casings off the street. He sent Mayers a video of the cartridges, writing, “U try killing me.”

Mayers replied: “Rell wtf u talkin bout?? Why u tellin ppl I shot at u.”

After Ephron told Mayers he had tried to “take me from my daughter,” the rapper told him to “stop makin s— up.”

Accusing Ephron of extortion, Mayers told him to “call the police if i ‘shot’ @ u u weirdo.”

Two days after the shooting, Ephron walked into the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood station with his attorney and handed over the casings.

Measured and composed when questioned by Przelomiec, Ephron’s demeanor changed when cross-examined by Mayers’ attorney, Joe Tacopina.

Tacopina suggested Ephron made up the shooting to get money from his former friend, who he is now suing in civil court. He claimed Ephron’s lawyers asked Mayer’s civil attorneys for a monetary settlement a day after the rapper was arrested.

“They were requesting money to impact a criminal case – or not impact a criminal case,” the lawyer said, noting it was “illegal” to “barter a criminal case away.”

Tacopina asked Ephron if he sent a text to Mayers’ manager that read, “I’m getting ich [sic].” Ephron said he meant to write, “I’m getting irritated.”

“You didn’t mean, ‘I’m getting rich?’” Tacopina asked.

The exchange grew heated. Ephron called Tacopina “a tough guy.” Tacopina told Ephron, who had shown the lawyer his license to carry a gun in Florida, that he wasn’t the one who kept guns in his waistband.

“Yeah,” Ephron shot back. “But your client does.”

 

[LurkerSix]

After that article i found this one from a few days ago. And it sounds like his attorney fighting an uphill battle like Torys was. How you expect everyone to believe you carried a starter pistol and pretended to shoot at someone you not only out numbered, but also was unarmed. All because you wanted to protect yourself from them

A$AP Rocky's lawyers cast the man he's accused of shooting at as a jealous, money-seeking rival

On the first day of A$AP Rocky 's trial, jurors saw surveillance videos that a prosecutor argued make it clear the rapper fired a gun in 2021 at his former friend.

6abc.com

A$AP Rocky's lawyers cast the man he's accused of shooting at as a jealous, money-seeking rival​

Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec gave a sober, straightforward presentation during opening statements Friday in the trial of the hip-hop star, fashion maven and actor. It relied almost entirely on the video evidence and audio from a 911 call.

"What will become almost instantly clear is that this is not a complicated case," Przelomiec said.

Rocky's attorney Joe Tacopina said in the defense opening statement that the video evidence is meaningless without the testimony of the accuser - Terell Ephron, who goes by A$AP Relli. Tacopina argued Relli is driven by "jealousy, lies and greed."

"This case rises or falls on his credibility," Tacopina said, repeatedly calling Relli, "a perjurer and a criminal," spurring prosecution objections. "The videos you saw, without his testimony, prove absolutely nothing."

The defense said that the gun was a starter pistol that shot only blanks - which they argued Relli knew - and Rocky carried only as a prop for protection.

The first video shown by the prosecution, captured from nearby but partly blocked, showed a physical struggle between two men - with two others intervening - outside a parking garage in Hollywood on the night of Nov. 6, 2021. One of them, wearing a black hoodie, pulls out a gun and points it, but does not fire it.

"The evidence in this case will show that the man in the black sweatshirt is the defendant, Rakim Mayers," Przelomiec said, using Rocky's legal name. "That evidence will be uncontradicted."

Przelomiec showed two more videos of the moment from other cameras, minutes after the first confrontation, when he said shots were fired about a block away. One shows a scuffle between four men in a tiny image in the corner of the frame. The other, shot at the same time, captures two gunshot sounds.

He also played a 911 call from minutes later.

"There's been a shooting," a woman with an Australian accent says. "We watched it. There were four men, and they were kind of fighting."

The defense lawyer argued that Relli was not scared because he "knew that gun wasn't real."

Relli was not seriously hurt. Przelomiec showed jurors a photo of tiny, bloody scrapes on Relli's knuckles that he said may have come from the shooting, but that was irrelevant to the charges.

The defense argued that the injury, which Tacopina mocked, was important because Relli's initial claims about it show his dishonesty.

"Oh my god, how is he gonna survive that scrape on his knuckles?" Tacopina said.

Tacopina argued that Relli had actually been the aggressor in both encounters, and that Rocky fired blank shots from his prop gun to stop Relli from attacking one of their A$AP crew members who was with him. He said that was why Relli scraped his knuckles.

And Tacopina made hay of the fact that seven officers who searched the scene found neither shell casings, a weapon, or any suspects.

Relli went to police two days later, and presented a pair of 9 mm shell casings he said he had picked up from the scene himself.

"You will see that story fall apart so hard," Tacopina said.

Relli has filed a civil lawsuit over the incident, and Przelomiec showed a text message from him to another friend from shortly after the incident saying he was going to get Rocky's money because "he shot at me."

Tacopina said the entire reason Relli went to police was that a civil lawyer would not take his case and sue Rocky unless he did.

 

[SeaSnake]

So, I kinda forgot what the incident was about so i figured i'd look it up in some articles. I'm not gunna quote all of it in them, but yea.........this nigga going to jail. From the defense to the story about how this went down, he not getting off on this planet lol. Better hope Rihanna pays Trump to pardon him.

'Rocky turned around and shot me': Rapper's childhood friend testifies about Hollywood shooting

Rakim Mayers and Terell Ephron, better known as ASAP Rocky and ASAP Relli, met in high school in New York. But one November night in 2021, tensions erupted into a fight on a Hollywood sidewalk. Ephron testified that Mayers shot him, grazing his hand.

www.latimes.com

This story is from 23' talking about what happened and lead up to the shooting. I know its a long post even tho i left shit out.

I feel like once that one dude died from the OD the ASAP stuff was gonna die. I thought like dudes like twelvy and ferg would still be able to do something.

 

[LurkerSix]

I feel like once that one dude died from the OD the ASAP stuff was gonna die. I thought like dudes like twelvy and ferg would still be able to do something.

I thought the same. They even had their own lil wave going, then it just fizzled. I hope they didnt waste their money and still have stuff going on behind the scenes.

 

[loud-ninja]

I feel like once that one dude died from the OD the ASAP stuff was gonna die. I thought like dudes like twelvy and ferg would still be able to do something.

Ferg still doing his thing. He recently dropped a new album

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Ferg still doing his thing. He recently dropped a new album

If you gotta tell someone that someone recently dropped an album then it’s over

 

[OGDirtyD]

Ferg drops alot of MID. And thats zero exaggerating.

His first few years out was his pinnacle.

 

[grYmes]

I haven’t checked for Ferg in quite some time. He was next up a while ago.

 

[loud-ninja]

If you gotta tell someone that someone recently dropped an album then it’s over

Naw. He just not a superstar or anything like that. Also, if you never listen to him, then you won't be looking out for his stuff.

If i wasnt on here, I would never know when currency drops. He doesn't end up on the top charts or anything like that.

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Naw. He just not a superstar or anything like that. Also, if you never listen to him, then you won't be looking out for his stuff.

If i wasnt on here, I would never know when currency drops. He doesn't end up on the top charts or anything like that.

Bro stop it

The

Work
Shabba ranks
Trap lord
Ferg Forever

Era been over

He came back for plain Jane which was a really hot single and only single on an okay album

That was 8 years ago..

hasn’t been the same

it’s okay to admit it’s over

 

[loud-ninja]

Bro stop it

The

Work
Shabba ranks
Trap lord
Ferg Forever

Era been over

He came back for plain Jane which was a really hot single and only single on an okay album

That was 8 years ago..

hasn’t been the same

it’s okay to admit it’s over

Like i said, he still doing his thing. That is all I said. If you wasn't checking for him then, you not gonna care now

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Like i said, he still doing his thing. That is all I said. If you wasn't checking for him then, you not gonna care now

Still doing his thing is the lowest hanging fruit there is

 

[loud-ninja]

Still doing his thing is the lowest hanging fruit there is

Ok? I heard a few tracks from the album when he was on sway's show. I liked what i heard. At some point, all artist hit their celling. At that point, they stay around with the fan base they made.

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Ok? I heard a few tracks from the album when he was on sway's show. I liked what i heard. At some point, all artist hit their celling. At that point, they stay around with the fan base they made.

Okay man I’m sorry

 

[Iceberg_Taylor]

not yall arguing about ferg

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

not yall arguing about ferg

You right man it’s not 2013 anymore

 

[loud-ninja]

Okay man I’m sorry

Cool. Now if you done hating, go and save your Rapper draft thread.

 

[Al G. Rhythm]

Cool. Now if you done hating, go and save your Rapper draft thread.

I know yall expect so much out of me but I have limits

I’m human too you know..

 

[TBotsRamss]

After that article i found this one from a few days ago. And it sounds like his attorney fighting an uphill battle like Torys was. How you expect everyone to believe you carried a starter pistol and pretended to shoot at someone you not only out numbered, but also was unarmed. All because you wanted to protect yourself from them

A$AP Rocky's lawyers cast the man he's accused of shooting at as a jealous, money-seeking rival

On the first day of A$AP Rocky 's trial, jurors saw surveillance videos that a prosecutor argued make it clear the rapper fired a gun in 2021 at his former friend.

6abc.com

He wont get 24 years but i think he will get prison time. He should have accepted the plea deal.