Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom in the gun assault trial of rapper A$AP Rocky. The rap artist-turned-fashion mogul, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers,

Insults flew back and forth on Thursday during the first day of closing statements in the trial of hip-hop artist Rakim Mayers, better known as A$AP Rocky, who stands accused of brandishing and firing a semiautomatic handgun at an old friend of his on the streets of Hollywood in 2021.