It’s led to multiple cancelled festival appearances and threats to boycott Sweden from some of his fellow artists.<\/p>\n
The rapper’s mum\u00a0recently pleaded for his release<\/a>, saying he “isn’t really eating properly” and suggesting he’s being made an example of.<\/p>\n ASAP Rocky has been held in custody since 3 July following an alleged assault which took place on 30 June.<\/p>\n A video published online appears to show him punching another man in the street.<\/p>\n In videos posted to ASAP Rocky’s Instagram afterwards, he and the people he’s with repeatedly tell a pair of men to stop following them.<\/p>\n One of the men accuses the 30-year-old’s team of breaking his headphones.<\/p>\n In the caption for the first video ASAP Rocky writes: “We don’t know these guys and we didn’t want trouble. They followed us for four blocks.”<\/p>\n In the second, he accuses the man of hitting his security guard “in the face with headphones”.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old was in Stockholm to perform at Smash festival.<\/p>\n But he’s spent the past month at Kronoberg prison while the alleged assault was investigated.<\/p>\n The prison’s boss defended conditions at the jail, after claims that walking into Kronoberg prison is like “walking into a toilet”.<\/p>\n He told Radio 1 Newsbeat ASAP Rocky was being held in “good conditions”.<\/p>\n Swedish prosecutors were twice granted more time to investigate, and had until 25 July to decide whether ASAP Rocky should be charged or released.<\/p>\n When a trial date is set, it is expected to last at least three days.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How it happened<\/h2>\n