A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have child No. 3 on the mind.
The couple allegedly promised to call their subsequent youngster after lawyer Joe Tacopina, who represented Rocky, 36, in his assault trial that resulted in a not responsible verdict on Tuesday.
“Rihanna and Rocky said to me in the courtroom yesterday, they grabbed me and they said, ‘Listen, our next baby is A$AP Joe,’” Tacopina, 58, informed Billy Bush in an interview with Further.
“I said, ‘I’m gonna hold you to that!’” Tacopina added.
Rocky and Rihanna, 37, are mother and father to sons RZA, 2, and Riot, 1.
Tacopina additionally mentioned that after the decision Rocky (actual identify Rakim Mayers) “said some very nice things. I mean, he told me he loved me, and we’re family.”
The “Praise the Lord” rapper was charged in 2022 following a 2021 combat along with his former good friend A$AP Relli, who testified that Rocky confronted him outdoors a Hollywood parking storage and shot him throughout the confrontation.
Rocky confronted as much as 24 years in jail if convicted. He denied all of the prosecutors’ allegations.
At a downtown Los Angeles courthouse on Tuesday, the jury determined Rocky was not responsible on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, following a virtually four-week trial.
The daddy of two celebrated by leaping up and down whereas hugging folks — and leaping into Rihanna’s arms — earlier than saying, “Thank y’all for saving my life.”
Describing how Rocky was earlier than the decision was learn, Tacopina informed Further, “He didn’t know if he was going to go home and see his two babies that night or start a, you know, a decade-long prison sentence, literally, that day, and he looked at me, and he grabbed me, and he said, ‘Joe, I want you to know I know how hard you fought here. I know everything you’ve done, and I just appreciate you so much. I appreciate everything you’ve done for me… and we’re in this together no matter what, and I love you.’”
“It was special that he did that,” the lawyer added. “That’s why I got emotional in that summation at the end, five and a half hours of me speaking straight to a jury. At the end, it all crescendoed when I started talking about him and how important he is to me, and how good of a person he is and Rihanna and their family, and how much I appreciated them putting their trust in me.”
Rihanna appeared in court docket to help Rocky a number of instances, even sitting along with his mom and sister throughout her first look late final month.
The “Diamonds” singer celebrated the not responsible verdict by writing on Instagram, “THE GLORY BELONGS TO GOD AND GOD ALONE. THANKFUL, HUMBLED BY HIS MERCY!”
