Rapper A$AP Rocky Charged With Felony Assault With a Firearm

Rapper A$AP Rocky Charged With Felony Assault With a Firearm
Rapper A$AP Rocky attends the premiere for "Stockholm Syndrome," during the 20th Tribeca Festival at The Battery in New York on June 13, 2021. Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
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LOS ANGELES—Rapper A$AP Rocky was charged with two felonies Monday for pulling a gun on a former friend and firing in Hollywood last year, prosecutors said.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged the 33-year-old New York native, whose legal name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.