Rihanna says she’s “feeling really optimistic” about her long-awaited album in a new interview, and that she “finally cracked it” amid the nine-year wait for the follow-up to Anti. The singer graces the cover of the new issue of Harpers Bazaar, and sat down for an interview where she vaguely …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Rihanna turned heads in L.A. this week as she supported partner A$AP Rocky at his gun assault trial. But when she isn’t sitting in the courtroom, the music …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Found Not Guilty in Gun Assault Trial
A Los Angeles jury has acquitted A$AP Rocky of two firearm assault charges stemming from his altercation with former friend A$AP Relli that ended with the sound of gunfire on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, stood calmly in a pinstripe suit as jurors filed …
Read More »Rihanna Grateful After A$AP Rocky Acquittal: 'The Glory Belongs to God'
Rihanna celebrated A$AP Rocky’s acquittal on firearms charges with a short post on Instagram shared yesterday after the verdict was handed down. “The glory belongs to God and God alone!” Rihanna wrote. “Thankful. Humbled by His mercy!” Rihanna was present in the courtroom for much of the trial, which found …
Read More »A$AP Rocky's Fate in Hands of Jury After Lawyers Clash in Court
Jurors were escorted to their deliberation room late Friday in the firearm assault trial of A$AP Rocky, the Grammy-nominated rapper accused of brandishing a gun and firing at his former friend on a street corner in Hollywood three years ago. “The case is now yours,” Los Angeles County Judge Mark. …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Closing Arguments Begin, Rihanna Appears in Court With Toddler Sons
A$AP Rocky’s firearm assault trial entered closing arguments today, with prosecutors casting the Grammy-nominated rapper as the antagonist of a street scuffle that allegedly ended in real gunfire on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. The rapper’s defense, meanwhile, said prosecutors utterly failed to prove their case, painting alleged …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Tour Manager Claims Missing Prop Gun Returned to Music Video Co-Director
A$AP Rocky’s longtime tour manager appeared atthe rapper’s gun assault trial in Los AngelesMonday and claimed he knows what happened to the purported prop pistol Rocky said he fired during an argument with a former friend on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. Louis Levin told jurors that two …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Declines to Testify As Jurors Told They Can Consider 'Self-Defense'
After speaking with his lawyer — and likely keeping prosecutors up late preparing for his potential cross-examination — A$AP Rocky decided not to testify in his own defense at his firearm assault trial in downtown Los Angeles. He confirmed the decision today before jurors were seated for the morning session. …
Read More »A$AP Rocky's Star Defense Witness Says Alleged Victim Taunted, 'Shoot That Fake-Ass Gun'
A$AP Rocky kicked off the long-awaited defense in his gun assault trial Friday with a star witness who says the alleged victim in the case, fellow A$AP Mob member A$AP Relli, was the repeated aggressor during the November 2021 shooting at the center of the case. Harlem rapper A$AP Twelvyy, …
Read More »Hear Rihanna Voice Smurfette, Cover Belinda Carlisle in New 'Smurfs' Trailer
We may not be getting a whole new Rihanna album soon, but the pop star-turned-beauty mogul will be giving us a new film and some new music when she stars as Smurfette in the new Smurfs movie, out July 18. In the trailer, Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is abducted. As …
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