The only adult charged with the 2020 murder of rising rapper Pop Smoke accepted a plea deal from prosecutors Wednesday, capping a nearly five-year prosecution of predominantly juvenile defendants in the deadly home-invasion robbery that shocked the hip-hop industry. Corey Walker, accused of leading three juveniles to the rented Airbnb …
Read More »
The man who claims A$AP Rocky shot live 9 mm bullets at him on a Hollywood street corner three years ago finished his potentially pivotal testimony today with the surprise admission he was at a Los Angeles gun range, firing a semi-automatic pistol, just two weeks before the incident at …
Read More »
Killer Mike is suing a security company over his citizen’s arrest at the 66th Grammy Awards last year, a high-profile spectacle that caused him to be led away in handcuffs though no criminal charges were ever filed. In a new lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone, the rapper claims S & …
Read More »
Rihanna returned to A$AP Rocky’s firearm assault trial in Los Angeles on Thursday, her second day sitting in the front row for A$AP Relli’s testimony that Rocky fired two 9mm bullets at him during a curbside confrontation in 2021. The superstar singer and businesswoman, who shares two young sons with …
Read More »
In a new superseding indictment filed Thursday, prosecutors expanded their sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, claiming he coerced two additional women into commercial sex acts, “dangled a victim over a hotel balcony” and possessed and intended to distribute two new drugs not listed in his original …
Read More »
After evading a crush of cameras outside, Rihanna made a surprise courtroom cameo in the front row of A$AP Rocky’s gun assault trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday, lending her support as her longtime partner fights charges he pulled a semiautomatic firearm and shot live bullets at a former friend …
Read More »
A$AP Rocky sat in a California courtroom with everything on the line Friday as prosecutors told jurors he fired multiple shots from a 9mm semiautomatic pistol during a fight with former friend A$AP Relli on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. Rocky’s lawyer said the rapper didn’t shoot anyone, …
Read More »
A$AP Rocky rejected a final plea deal offer on the first day of his firearm assault trial in Los Angeles Tuesday. He also sat quietly as his lawyer said for the first time that the “Multiply” rapper was only carrying a “prop gun,” not a loaded semiautomatic pistol, the night …
Read More »
Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday. The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims UMG “unleashed every weapon in its …
Read More »
With the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires as a dramatic backdrop, A$AP Rocky’s criminal trial over charges he fired shots at his former friend A$AP Relli on a Hollywood, California, street three years ago remains on track to start next week. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark S. …
Read More »