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 (Jan. 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 Nov. 2021.

A$AP Rocky arrives at an L.A. courthouse for his trial on felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, for firing a gun at a former friend.

A$AP Rocky rejected a plea deal from prosecutors in his Hollywood assault case Tuesday as the trial began in downtown Los Angeles, a little over two years after he was charged with opening fire on a former friend and collaborator.

Jury selections started in the case against A$AP Rocky, who is charged with allegedly firing a gun at a former friend, Terell Ephron, in 2021. The rapper plead not guilty to two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm during an incident in the streets in Hollywood,