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.

ASAP Rocky appeared at a Los Angeles courthouse on Tuesday (January 21) as jury selection began in his criminal assault trial. The 35-year-old artist, born Rakim Mayers, is facing two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm stemming from an alleged altercation in November 2021.

Nearly 100 jurors will pack into a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday with the possibility they’ll serve on the three-week trial of rapper A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend.

The rapper, actor and designer arrived for the first day of trial on Jan. 21. He turned down a last-minute prosecution plea offer, and jury selection got underway.

A$AP Rocky has rejected the prosecution's final offer for a plea deal that would have seen him spend 180 days in jail.

The rapper and globe-trotting fashion fixture stands accused of firing shots at a onetime friend. His long-awaited trial in the case has already provided tabloid fodder.

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A$AP Rocky’s long-delayed trial on assault charges will begin Tuesday with jury selection in Los Angeles.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in a trial against A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend and could get a decades-long prison sentence if convicted. The 36-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm,