ASAP Rocky Seemingly Scolds ASAP Relli In New Song Preview After Assault Trial

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 01: A$AP Rocky attends the H2L Wrap Party on June 01, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images)
ASAP Rocky headlined Rolling Loud Los Angeles last night and pulled up above the massive crowd and stage in a helicopter.

During his Rolling Loud Los Angeles headlining performance on Saturday night (March 15), a new song preview saw ASAP Rocky refuse to pick a side in the Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole rap battle last year. However, that doesn't mean that he won't engage in some conflict whenever warranted. The Harlem creative also seemed to reference ASAP Relli in this new song preview, who unsuccessfully accused him in criminal court of shooting at him back in 2021. Rocky saw an acquittal in the case earlier this year. "N****s do the most when they irrelevant / Claiming A$AP, but we were never friends," he raps on the cut, also talking about settlements and evidence in the following bars.

Still, this doesn't mean that A$AP Rocky is completely out of the woods yet when it comes to this situation. After all, A$AP Relli still has his civil lawsuit against him, which could touch on and examine different things about the case on various other charges and by multiple metrics. Whether or not it results in anything different from the criminal case is another story. Regardless, it goes to show that folks don't evade these tough situations that easily, and they also face many roadblocks in furthering them.

ASAP Rocky New Album Don't Be Dumb

What's more is that ASAP Rocky was not the only person to send shots at his former colleague this week. Kendrick Lamar dissed ASAP Relli on "GOOD CREDIT," one of this three new collabs with Playboi Carti on his new album MUSIC. "Eliantte go big, white gold link fall on the belly / The emerald cuff for hers and his, that b***h on point like A$AP Relli," he rapped on the track. This is kind of ironic because Carti is under AWGE, Rocky's imprint, and he has longstanding ties to the A$AP Mob.

Speaking of new albums, A$AP Rocky's Don't Be Dumb is on most rap fans' minds right now. "Don't do me like that!" he joked while laughing to a reporter who brought the project up at Paris Fashion Week, acknowledging the grueling wait. "Don't make me do that right now. You gon' get me beat up out here. They on my head because of questions like that."

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.