One of many greatest WTF moments in 2019 was A$AP Rocky’s arrest for assault in Sweden, and whereas he’s on a press tour for his Don’t Be Dumb album, he’s lastly opening up concerning the expertise.
Whereas chatting with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1, he spoke on how President Trump’s involvement didn’t precisely assist and the way “f-cking loopy” the state of affairs was across the 22-minute mark.
Rocky breaks down the scale of the Swedish jail cell he was in, describing it as an area that solely had “a toilet, only a sink, a mirror, and a mattress with a desk.”
“When you must go to the toilet, you bought to ask permission,” Rocky defined. “You ring your bell. Typically they’ll go away you within the rest room for like an hour, at nighttime cuz the sunshine turns off after like 5 minutes. So if you happen to took a bathe, no towels, you gotta make your individual makeshift towel. Don’t get me flawed, it wasn’t Rikers, however it was inconvenient. It wasn’t candy.”
With solely half-hour of rec time on the roof and no basketball courts, Rocky recollects speaking to different inmates who advised him they have been watching the information community Al Jazeera for all of the commotion about his imprisonment.
He nonetheless remembers all of the love he received from different entertainers who spoke out for his freedom and the way a lot that helped him. However that momentum dried up when the president received concerned, and it received extra sophisticated.
“And when Trump mentioned what he mentioned, he made it worse cuz they have been like, ‘Oh, all proper. We’re protecting you longer,’” Rocky mentioned, whereas additionally having to inform Kanye West and Kim Kardashian to fall again.
He recalled West getting concerned, saying, “I’m getting Kim.” We getting in a jet. We coming with Trump.’”
At one level, when he was near freedom, Trump interjected once more, and rumors started to swirl that he would possibly serve eight months as an alternative.
With extra eyes on him, an American negotiator was despatched to Sweden as a result of he was “technically kidnapped,” and if he was discovered harmless, they’d must reimburse him for all of the tour dates he missed whereas in lock-up. So, he was discovered responsible, so the Swedes might keep away from having to pay up when he was launched.
“With the grace of God, I received out. I ain’t actually let that make me jaded,” Rocky ends the story.
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