Rakim Mayers, better known as the rapper ASAP Rocky, will headline the Rolling Loud festival and serve as a chair of the Met Gala this year — as long as he dodges a conviction at his trial for a 2021 Hollywood shooting.

A$AP Rocky has elected to reject a plea deal to serve 180 days in jail in his gun assault case and now could face up to 24 years in prison.

Prosecutors were not exactly thrilled with ASAP Rocky’s legal team introducing a prop gun as the centerpiece of his defense strategy. On Wednesday (Jan. 22), Meghann Cuniff shared that the opening counsel called it a “straight ambush.

Jury selection in A$AP Rocky's felony assault case will take place in Los Angeles on January 21 stemming from the shooting of A$AP Relli.

Trial is set to begin with jury selection in a Los Angeles court for rapper A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend in Hollywood in 2021

A$AP Rocky’s criminal trial over charges he fired shots at his former friend A$AP Relli is still on track to begin next week.

A$AP Rocky is on trial in Los Angeles, having pleaded not guilty to charges of assault with a semiautomatic weapon

Grammy-nominated rapper A$AP Rocky, center, facing two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after allegedly shooting at a former friend in 2021, arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz

A$AP Rocky arrives at an L.A. courthouse for his trial on felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, for firing a gun at a former friend.

Nearly a hundred jurors will pack back into a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday with the possibility that they’ll serve on the three-week trial.

A$AP Rocky turned down a final prosecution plea offer of 180 days in jail, risking the possibility of a guilty verdict and years in prison as jury