The rapper — and partner to singer Rihanna — whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was acquitted of two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.

Like a starter pistol, like a prop gun, as his defense,” Twelvyy told the jury. When asked how he knew Rocky walked around with a fake gun, Twelvyy said he’d seen it on Rocky on “several ...

Mayers' defense team has argued that Mayers was carrying a prop gun that night, which he had gotten while filming a music video. He carried it, they say, to deter people from attacking him. But Ephron ...

A$AP Rocky’s longtime friend and collaborator testified at his Los Angeles trial that the hip-hop star fired a starter pistol that he carried as a prop during a ...

“Can you explain to me,” he asked, “how pulling out a prop gun that Relli knew was fake was going to act as a deterrent to anything?” “The sound,” Twelvyy answered. “The sound ...