Rapper A$AP Rocky was found not guilty of two counts of felony assault at the conclusion of a trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The musician, who has two children with singer Rihanna, had faced more than two decades in prison if he had been convicted of the alleged attack on a former friend in Hollywood in 2021.
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00:00We, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Rakeem Mayers, not guilty of the crime.
00:22You can hear Mr. Mayers and you can also hear ASAP Barb.
00:27And in the course of that call, Mr. Efron, the victim, heard the defendant saying these rude and aggressive things about him.
00:42Mr. Mayers, at the time, did not know.
00:44Now, although I told you that Mr. Mayers and Mr. Efron were close at one point, you will hear that throughout their relationship, there was tension between the two of them.