A$AP Rocky Posed With A Revolver-Themed Accessory At The Met Gala Less Than Three Months After He Was Cleared Of Gun Charges, And People Have Thoughts

In lawsuit you missed it, the 2025 Met Gala took spot past night, and rapper A$AP Rocky was co-chair alongside Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams, and honorary seat LeBron James.

For reference, this year’s taxable was Superfine: Tailoring Black Style with a “Tailored for You” formal code.

And it’s just to accidental that it was a beauteous beardown nighttime for Rocky, with the prima hitting the headlines erstwhile his girlfriend, Rihanna, confirmed that she is large with their 3rd kid up of the iconic reddish carpet.

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In addition, Rocky was undeniably among the champion dressed of the night, with the prima exceptionally on-theme successful a customized plan from his ain originative agency, AWGE. He expertly mixed sportswear with the Black dandy inspiration down the formal code, with Rocky besides telling Vogue that helium sought inspiration from his Harlem younker erstwhile executing the look.

However, determination is 1 portion of the artist’s Met Gala outfit that has divided people, with immoderate societal media users near unimpressed erstwhile they noted that Rocky had accessorized with an umbrella that has a revolver grip aft precocious being cleared of gun-related battle allegations successful court.

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If you request reminding, successful February, the prima was recovered not blameworthy connected 2 felony counts of battle with a semiautomatic firearm. He had been accused of shooting his erstwhile person A$AP Relli, existent sanction Terell Ephron, during an altercation successful 2021.

The Los Angeles County proceedings lasted for 3 weeks, and Rocky — existent sanction Rakim Mayers — could person faced 24 years successful situation if recovered guilty, but prosecutors lone sought 8 years.

At the time, prosecutors alleged that Rocky pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his waistband and pointed it astatine Relli arsenic helium said: “I’m going to termination you.” The 2 had seemingly met up adjacent to a Hollywood edifice to settee a dispute, and Relli alleged that Rocky fired successful his absorption doubly — claiming that 1 of the bullets grazed his hands.

However, Rocky’s defence argued that the limb allegedly utilized successful the shooting was conscionable a “prop gun,” oregon a starter pistol, not a existent firearm. The “fake gun” proved to beryllium a cardinal portion of the trial, with witnesses testifying that Rocky did not transportation a existent weapon, but had the prop weapon erstwhile helium did not person information with him. It was claimed that Rocky fired the prop weapon to halt Relli from attacking 1 of their friends.

Rocky was recovered not blameworthy by the jury, and famously leaped implicit the basal to hug Rihanna successful tribunal erstwhile the verdict was announced.

Still, immoderate recovered Rocky’s inclusion of a weapon successful his Met Gala look little than 3 months aboriginal to beryllium successful atrocious taste, with a viral tweet reading: “A revolver grip umbrella aft beating a weapon lawsuit is diabolical.”

At the clip of writing, this tweet has been seen much than 5 cardinal times and has hundreds of thousands of likes, retweets, and replies.

“This gun-handled umbrella is specified a bold, unsafe connection to marque aft beating his case,” different fashionable tweet echoes.

“does rocky, a antheral accused of shooting someone, person a bedazzled GUN?” idiosyncratic other asked, portion 1 much wrote: “A pistol grip umbrella. This antheral is crazy.”

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