As anticipated, Swedish prosecutors have charged A$AP Rocky and two members of his entourage with assault.
The decision was handed down on Thursday (July 25), according to NPR. In a translated statement, the city prosecutor’s office said the three men had been charged “for the abuse of a person near HĂśtorget,” a city square in central Stockholm.
“Together they have handed out blows and kicks against a lying person,” prosecutor Daniel Suneson said in the statement. “[T]he plaintiff has been injured on the arms, among other things.”
The incident occurred on June 30 while Rocky was overseas to perform at Smash x Stadion, a two day Hip Hop festival in Sweden’s capital city. He maintains it was self-defense and provided video of the confrontation on his Instagram account, showing the alleged victim following his crew.
The Hollywood Reporter states Suneson explained he had access to a âlarger amount of material than what has been available on the internetâ and judged Rocky’s actions to be a crime.
Rocky’s Swedish defense lawyer, Slobodan Jovicic, said he was “not surprised” by the decision but was “extremely disappointed” prosecutors chose to give testimony of the alleged victim more weight.
TMZ reports Rocky’s charge could get him locked up for up to two years, but Suneson said he will not recommend the full two-year sentence if Rocky is convicted.
During the trial, which will likely start next week, a panel of four judges will hear the case. At least three of them must decide an assault was committed for a conviction. If it’s a tie, the prosecutor is allowed to ask for a new trial. If Rocky is convicted, a judge will decide the sentence a week later.
[This article has been updated. The following was published on July 19, 2019.]
A Stockholm judge has reportedly ordered A$AP Rocky to remain in jail for roughly another week while prosecutors continue to investigate the alleged assault. TMZ reports the ruling was handed down on Friday (July 19) and appears to signal the A$AP Mob rapper will be indicted.
Rocky’s lawyer, Slobodan Jovicic, says it’s “unjust” to hold his client although prosecutors deemed him a flight risk. Jovicic says Rocky would never risk his career and flee due to his status as an international rap star.
Jovicic believes the most his client should get is probation considering there’s video of the alleged victim attacking Rocky and his crew. Rocky also tried to de-escalate the situation.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat says Swedish authorities are using “KGB tactics” by keeping Rocky locked up and thinks it’s likely they will indict him.
Authorities are expected to make the final decision next Thursday (July 25).
The Testing architect was arrested on July 2 and has already been behind bars for over two weeks. Several of his peers have started a Swedish boycott as a result.
[This article has been updated. The following was published on July 5, 2019.]
A$AP Rocky’s arrest is slightly more serious than originally thought. According to TMZ, the A$AP Mob rapper could remain in a Swedish jail for at least two weeks as prosecutors determine whether to charge him with aggravated assault.
Swedish police are normally only allowed to keep a person for three days.
Rocky was arrested on Tuesday (July 2), two days after the alleged assault. The vicious beatdown was captured on video and shows Rocky and members of his entourage pummeling a man in the street.
In a separate video posted by Rocky, the alleged victim is seen following them. He was reportedly upset over a pair of broken headphones. But, the man supposedly broke the headphones when smashing them over Rocky’s bodyguard’s head.
Swedish prosecutors are releasing the bodyguard due to “insufficient evidence,” but refuse to release Rocky, suggesting prosecutors are still considering it an assault.
Rocky could face up to six years behind bars if convicted.
[This article has been updated. The last version was published on July 3, 2019 and can be found below.]
Stockholm police have reportedly arrested A$AP Rocky on suspicion of aggravated assault. TMZ reports police can hold the A$AP Mob rapper for up to three days while prosecutors determine how to charge him.
Three other people were also taken into custody â two on suspicion of aggravated assault and one for suspicion of assault â but their relationship to Rocky is undetermined.
The incident took place on Sunday (June 30) after two groups of men allegedly got into an argument over a pair of broken headphones. But according to a roughly three-minute video Rocky posted, it appears the man broke his headphones when he smashed them on the head of Rocky’s bodyguard.
Although Rocky attempts to squash things, a fight ultimately broke out and Rocky jumps in. In the Instagram caption, Rocky says the men followed them for four blocks and “were slapping girls butts who passed.”
He could face up to six years in a Swedish prison if prosectors move forward with the charges.
[This article has been updated. The original version was published on July 1, 2019 and can be found below.]
A$AP Rocky and his crew were apparently involved in an altercation while overseas. In video obtained by TMZ, the A$AP Mob rapper gets into a heated altercation with two men at a Max restaurant in Stockholm on Sunday night (June 30).
The reason for the argument was allegedly over a pair of broken headphones.
Sources reportedly say the two men kept following Rocky and threatened to call the cops over the headphones. Someone stepped in to translate the argument between the two group of men and Rocky issued an ultimatum â stop or else.
A woman interrupted the conversation and accused one of the two men of grabbing her inappropriately. Witnesses say at that point Rocky and his entourage decided to attack.
During the fight, someone smashes a bottle and three other men jump in to join the beatdown.
After Rocky and his friends fled, an ambulance and cops were dispatched to the scene. Police took statements from the witnesses at the scene.
People all over the world hate dindus in tight girl pants yelling in Ebonics.
Ya girl would probably beg to differ…
My wife is a full blooded northern Italian member of the NYPD you food stamp eating, boost phone using, internet library using blaque dindu
YA MOTHER U CLOSET BITCH! EAT SUM HIV DICKS. A BAG OF EM PUSSY
Fuck You your a motherfucking bacteria. I would love to cut you open and pull your kidney out your back.
Coward bitch talking all that shit behind your keys. You can be found motherfucker and I warn you keep your mouth closed
vagina leak. Caucus mountain motherfuckers couldn’t even walk and only 6000 years old and you want jump out there. True fucking mutants you are, homo creating bastard. Catch a body bag moist man.
Oh look itâs a reperation seeking fatherless Dindu with a generic â your girlâ insult. Your people were begging for extra welfare at congress last week. Youâre a loser and your offspring which you will abandon will be losers too dindu
Still can’t behave even in another country
Damn ASAP YOU COULD JUMP MY ASSHOLE ANYTIME ON BRONSON NIGAAAAAAA L LXCK YOUR ASS FOR THE MY NICCUHS ON 63RD STREET NO BLOOD SHOULD LOVE NO CUZZ THO
Sodomite alert
Further showing their race up. The hell is wrong with young black individuals involved in rap thinking everything has to lead to violence? Shows complete and utter lack of intelligence from all involved, acting like some grown ass kids there.
Seems to be growing trend.
Self defense nerd
Self defence nerd? If you advocate this kind of behaviour youâre a bit of a moron to say the least. If you think guys beating each other up because constitutes entertainment or find it funny then youâre a bit of a simple loser….
Blaque retards never learn. The reason they were enslaved was because of behaving like animals like this. We tried our best to civilize them, but they just want more welfare
stfu ruckus
The reason why I come to this site to troll blacks is because now they’re trolling our sites like smallpenis.com and incest.com and my personal favorite bestiality.com
How about welfare.com? Knockedherupandabandonedher.com? Murdermyownkind.com? Ihavenoideawhomydadis.com? Itâsthewhitemansfaultidontshower.com? Iwoukdntsurvivefor10secondsbackinafrica.com? LoLOLOL
Blackskillmoreblacksayearthan9xthetotalofmassshootings.com? Statisticallytherearwmoreblackrapiststganwhiteones.com? LOLOLOLOL
lol most people you call “africans” were actually indigenous america. y’all came over here and started fucking shit up, like y’all did all of asia and europe.
Fuck black animal people. They all should go back to Mexico and leave us good white folks alone so we can do what we like to do in PUBLIC. Iâm hoping this happens so I can finally be able to suck on my horses dick in public when we go for walks. Sometime a white masculine man like myself needs to suck on some good Kentucky bred horse penis and not be judged.
First of all, you sound ode racist but it’s okay. I hope we never cross path cuz I will Fvk you up.
Second : You’re saying they should go back to Mexico. cool. You should go back to Europe. This country, The “United States of America” was stolen from The Native Americans. This country does not belong to anyone but them.
Third : Your last statement sounds so stupid and ignorant. But hey, That’s who you are.
damn.
You gotta giv it to tha white folks kinfolk. At least they kno how to act. We can’t even get our shit together. Everythang frm baby momma drama to tha gubment cutting off grandmamas food stamps bcuz she dont wanna work stocking at the dolla stizzo. The white race knows wassup.
ROCK SLUNG HIS ASS ! LMAO
Divine truths. Africa is the poorest, most war ridden and diseased continent on earth. Black people lead the US, statistically in HIV, incarceration (statistically and overall), single mother households, illiteracy, no high school diploma, murder of anyone, murder of blacks… you do rap, sing and play sports well though. Those are some divine troofs there homie. How much time are you allowed on the computer in prison, Holmes? Should t you be watching fat white girl porn? LOL
U KKKRACKERS PECKERWOOD LEAD THE NATION IN WELFARE U WORTHLESS GOAT MOUTH AS SHIT FLY CATCHER. WE R ONLY 10% OF AMERICA. U NON EDUCATED NOMADS RACIST PIECE OF GOAT SHIT. EAT A BAG OF A.I.D.S.DICKS
Why are black people so hateful? Do you feel better about yourselves when your spread your toxic rhetoric throughout society? Grow up it’s 2019 nobody has time for you racists.
white people have been on a global assault on melanated people for centuries, then call us racist when we fight back lol
That fight is working out great for you LOL. 1.3 million in prison, less money than illegals who have no docs to legally work or speak the language. Keep fighting buddy, it sure helps. Maybe integrate into society, get an education and stay with a woman you knock up like every other race on earth? Us latinos arenât âpeople of melaninâ that are pissed at white folk hating us. Weâre out here making that money, laughing at you cry baby savages.
Black people STOLE hip hop from white people!!!!
^^^some asinine bullshit that you’d say
Yeah, before the white man came into Hip-hop with management, recrd labels and execs, the black man was making SO much money with it. LOL. Check out Koll Herc and Africa Bambaataâs net worth. Now check Jay-Z. Dummy. Speaking of Africa Bambataa…
They wasnt doing it for the money but the love–execs came in stealing the culture by waving money in poor people faces. Trust and believe with hip hop billionaires coming the exec game has to change. Black people eyes have changed, not really about the money but the life–probably take you a minute to get that
Lol
Black people hate white people because of things that happened in the past and white people hate black people because they think they’re better than black people. The animosity between the two races will probably never end but this is a site about music, why all the racist comments all the time? I’m neither black or white and I won’t tell my race because then someone will have something racist to say about me because that’s all this site seems to comment about
Sounds like you REALLY know how it is to be a black person!! Gee…woe is you!
Black people hate white people because itâs an excuse for their bullshit. White people hate black people because of all the bitching, moaning and excuse making. Zero accountability. Iâm not either BTW.
Wish they leave the race distinguishing to the crooked ass police. Because the nonsense I read on here seems like a bunch of computer thugs—–where is the music on this site?
Are you an Arab? I bet you’re an Arab. You’re a no good desert negroe aren’t you? Or worse are you a border jumping bean, are you a Mexican? Huh are you landscaping home depot lurking Mexican?
White people ARE better than black people. Look at the inventions. Nobel peace prizes. Literature. Art. Check out any African country, compare it to European or American countries. The first man was black, right? So blacks are less evolved. Check out college education stats. Prisons. Disease, and most of all WCUSE MAKING FOR LAZINESS. HAHAHAHA
What I “love” about rappers altercations with regular people is that for some strange reason they only happen either when their bodyguards are with them or when they clearly outnumber the other side
These white kids deserve to get beat up .. they hit his security in the face with headphones .. got stomped out .. people always feel sorry for white people after they get their ass whipped .. we know their genetically weaker but come on now
They are so genetically weaker that they were enslaved, right? Oh. Wait. LOL. How about those 1.4 million âgenetically strongerâ black folk in our prisons? Whites, with their genetic inferiority, only invented the internet, the airplane, the cellphone, the computer, antibiotics… blacks invented the stoplight and peanut butter? LOL. Also, why are US blacks the only blacks on earth asking for repetitions (a handout)? I guess itâs those beggar, loser genes, buddy. LOL. Are you done mopping the floor in the Arbyâs you and your mom work at yet? There is a BLM protest to attend.
“reparations” you mean??? You’re a fucking idiot. Lmao and your facts are terribly wrong.. whites are immigrants here, u stupid fuck! Do your research you inbred piece of shit.
Hahahaha. Whites are immigrants here? You must be referring to the Naive Americans? So Rome, Egypt, Macedonia… every other land that was conquered, and became a staple of world culture, was conquered br technologically and culturally advanced people. LOL. Dude started this all with his âgenetically weakerâ bullshit. Check murder and incarceration rates. Now check inventions, Pulitzer Prizes, Nobel peace prizes. LOL
The only reason your mad is because you are right and you hate it—been putting us down for hundreds of years so you really think your stupid rant that was done in the comfort of your home matters–it only will when you say it to one of those inferior colored people face to face.
Sorry not to Rasul but too dindu
… This us blatantly just sad, bro. Blacks invented the swivel chair, the sliding door and nearly a thousand other things you use every day. Also, being genetically superior makes you a better slave. But your genetics can’t stop a bullet (or an army of gun wielding people) unless you also have super powers. Anyway, you just seem like a sour troll who has nothing better to do than get in arguments online. I hope you find a hobby, friendship and intelligence on your journey of self reflection. It would be good for you.
Superior genes make you a better slave? Blacks invented thousands of things we use everyday? What in the name of Dindu is this n-word talking about?
All that shit you mentioned would have never happened had your ancestors never came to Africa to learn math….Don’t ever boast about inventions and shit again until you learn real history not that watered down shit you learned in schools that brushed over details. I can hear the insecurity in your fake confidence as you truly believe in your heart that people who look like you started this shit. You are an example of a bad human.
its not white kid my nikka, i’m white, this guy looks like this trash from middle east
It’s funny how everybody knows what a black person is but not sure about their own race. One thing is a fact, all non whites love some form of our culture.
All non blacks that is
The part where you canât read or write correctly, like above, is something I love. Also the way you fill prisons and make excuses for everything. I also adore the way you canât make a penny off of your own culture u til the white man comes along for management, distribution etc. lots of stuff to love. LOL
But look who’s on a hip hop site. Sit your inbred bitch ass down somewhere and learn your history
A hip hop site owned by Pakistanis. LOL. On a smartphone. On the internet. All white stuff, buddy. LOL. Hip-hop would be less popular than the blues had the white man not handled management, distribution A and R etc. how are all those Black owned labels going? LOL. BET is owned by a white man. Do you like Maeda movies? Hahahahaha. Kind of funny how the homiceide/HIV rates are similar in âurbanâ inner cities and Africa. LOL
White kids mad that he dumped tyler for a bitch
Yet nuggets were slaves.
ASAP BEEN SUSPECT. HE PROB GO TO JAIL FOR THE FREE ACTION. ESP OVER IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.
He misses those times in the bathroom when the semen was flying all over the place
Who starts a fight in Sweden?smh. This the foolery that makes black ppl look uncouth
Did you even watch the video dummy?
I don’t know why rappers keeps going to Scandinavia. Slim Jxmmy got Arrested in Norway last night too over some bullshit. Asap had to cancel his show in Norway because of this incident
In a video I see 3 men beating one guy in the floor. Do you think that shouldn’t deserve to be arrested?
I mean if it was 1 vs 1 I’ll give you that, but 3 vs 1…. even when he was on the floor… come on man
The dude that got his ass beat was asking for it. He persued Rocky and his people, swung first on the bodyguard breaking his headphones in the process and still followed them for blocks harassing them. How many times can you tell somebody go away, I don’t want to fight can you say before you let your fists tell it better? Idk whats wrong with people today….
muslims in europe thats whats up
Only Blaque artists have these situations. The loser race is barbaric as always. Only good for music and sports. Obama was half white. The good half
Fool!! This ainât no courthouse!! Nobody cares about your case
The dude that got his azz beat is not white, and not a native to Sweden. Look at him; heâs some type of Middle Eastern breed thatâs messing up Europe. This is what diversity brings; it brings trash. None of these people are from Sweden yet theyâre trashing it. Go home, and leave your thuggery in the sh*the your family is from.
Black people are the most racist, even against other black people with lighter complexion cause they aren’t “real” black people.
That aint racism, thats just ignorance smh
it’s not ignorance some muslims were playing hard guys, smashed headphones on bodyguard and assulted girls. The guy shouldn’t be beatdown, his face should be smashed over the concrete literally, they come to europe from africa and playing like they are ruling the world, i’m glad that rocky beat him down, Swedish pussies will not even react on the situation like this, thats fucking sad, video showing that this 2 crack addicts were looking for problems.
He supposed to give a show in my country, Poland and they has cancelled it in the last moment. looks like he fucked up
Good, he deserves it. What an idiot, he thinks the whole world is Harlem.
Why???? He deserves six years in an international prison? And what does that statement really mean? We’re gods walking the Earth, darling. Everywhere is Harlem since this planet is home. U big mad, huh? đ
You can tell they wanted smoke, no one follows five foreign Black guys over $10.00 headphones. This was some ego entrapment.
Gods walking the earth? Hahahahaha. Hilarious. How did âgodâ get thrown in jail? LOL. Lots of âgodsâ canât pay child support, and suck dick for crack. LOL. Youâre HILARIOUS. THIS BITCH SAID GOD. HAHAHAHAHAHA. God canât even speak English correctly, or shower daily. LOL
Your bigotry is so basic. Go over there with your repeating what your masters tell you.
You shouldnât say âmastersâ to black people buddy. Itâs 2019.
Will bet your virginity that you don’t have the guts to ever even utter your boring rhetoric to a black man in real life as you know you’d get absolutely, positively destroyed! To top it off, it would probably be recorded and immortalised on a WSHH fight comp. Utter clown!
Dude, if ANYONE tells me they are a god walking the earth, theyâll get clowned INSTANTLY. LOL. Shit is hilarious. As far as getting âutterly destroyedâ, Iâm a BJJ black belt. You probably donât know what that is or means, the idiot that referred to himself as âgodâ probably wouldnât either. Shit would go REAL sideways once the attempted destruction started. LOL. Nice try though… hahahaha
Thats pretty much how Iâm feeling too.. it seems like one of those situations where the âvictimsâ were being the aggressors until they got checked for it.
Alex Jones of all people covered this story. He says this occurred in one of Sweden’s Muslim no-go zones, the neighborhoods populated by refugees from the Middle East and North Africa where westerners tend to get attacked.
Correct.
word alex jones is a dumb ass that shit happen in Norrmalm which pretty much the downtown area in fron the of the Kungshallen restaurant. The entire area is nothing but malls, stores, and restaurants for like 30 blocks…fuckin dummy
This happened in HĂśtorget if you read the article. HĂśtorget is in one of the most upscale and expensive areas in not only Sweden, but all of northern Europe. Read and dont be a moron, please.
what if it is just staged, just fake.
Like the whole country of Sweden and their prisons? Thatâs deep! Dumbass.
Itâs over for Dindus all over the west. Populism is king, and blaque dindus will learn who is boss. Trump 2028!
Meanwhile black sperm is swimming around in your moms and your daughters belly lol
What he said about Fergueson..itâs not his problem and he donât live there..Sweden ainât my problem and I donât got there
Compartmentalizing. Sticking to the topic at hand. You should try it.
Wow I did not see this coming another black guy going to prison? We’re living in crazy times folks stock up on gold and precious mineral rocks.
GOOD!! KEEP HIM LOCKED UP. HE MADE HIS OWN DECISION TO TRY AND IMPRESS SOME SCRAWNY WHITE GIRLS AND HE HAS TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES. ALSO, HE CONTRIBUTED TO HIPHOP BEING SO FRUITY SO PLEASE KEEP HIM OUT THERE, SWEDEN
You sound hurt.. you are straight up bitch if this means that much to you
Him and his pics in a dress wearing a purse getting tossed around that jail right now
Do the crime pay the time pussy. All these bitch ass rappers need to shut the fuck up. Especially that snitch ti.
Apparently savage like behavior you can pay your way out of with bail and good lawyers in the US, doesnât fly in the EU. They should be proud. Even Donald try to help to no avail. I guess kicking people when they are down, filming it, then posting it on the internet wasnât a good idea. LOL. They should have just given each of those morons 100 Euros for new headphones and called the cops. SMH
I just got one question ASAP. Where your ppls at from Soho and Beverly Hills that you can only relate to?
Yakub’s creations are running amuck in the comments again
Another racist black guy? Don’t you people get tired of your hateful rhetoric? Just grow up and learn to be tolerant of people, if you can’t do that then move to places in Africa where you won’t be inconvenienced by white people.
Hahahahaha. He said Yakub. The black man made the white devil in a lab 6000 years ago? Also, get your test done with the A UFO broke a part off of the earth that became the moon? Youâre ridiculous. Your âreligionâ is too. Real Shias and Sunis laugh at your bullshit, and they believe the sun orbits around earth. Hahahaha. Dummy.
Racist Swedes, they let G-Eazy off easy but going after the black guy. US govt should deny swedish artists visas
Stfu bitch, G Eazy pleaded guilty while Rocky didnt, thats the difference. Idiotic americans thinking their race relations plays any sort of relevance in the rest of the world.
DUMMY, G Eazy pleaded guilty and took the deal………Stop making everything about race. He had bodyguards to handle the situation but decided to be a thug and fight the guys harrassing him.
Victims weren’t Swedes either. They were Algerian like ya boy French Montana.
The investigation proved that the two guys following them didnât assault any women. They were found innocent. Hahahahaha
Open and shit case. They were kicking a downed opponent. As accused. Theyâre fucked.