A$AP Rocky's assault trial began on Friday in Los Angeles, where the rapper is accused of firing a gun at a former friend. The rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers ...
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“You got to have something wrong with you to be a rapper,” he says. “Whether it’s trapping, robbing, stealing, going through trauma, it’s definitely something wrong with dudes.