Following his acquittal on gun-related charges, A$AP Rocky and his partner, Rihanna, have confirmed the name of their next baby.
After Joe Tacopina led the rapper’s legal team toward triumph during the nearly four-week trial, the couple allegedly told him they would be naming their next baby after him.
“They grabbed me and they said, ‘Listen, our next baby A$AP Joe,’” Tacopina told “Extra” after the rapper was found not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in a 2021 shooting incident on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
“I said, ‘I’m gonna hold you to that!’” he responded.
On Wednesday, the “Praise the Lord” rapper, 36, was found not guilty of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in a 2021 shooting incident.
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He added that the “Kids Turned Out Fine” hitmaker, who shares RZA, aged 2, and Riot, aged 1, with Rihanna, told him that “he loved me and we’re family.”
The rapper faced up to 24 years in prison if he was convicted of the assault stemming from an alleged altercation with his former friend A$AP Relli four years ago.
During the hearing, Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, almost collapsed as he grabbed his legal team before turning to Rihanna and his loved ones seated in the first row.
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The rapper’s emotional reaction initially worried Tacopina, who noted that Rocky began celebrating after the first count was read out, instead of waiting for all counts to be read aloud.
“I told my partner, ‘Get him back here, we have another count,’” he recalled. “I’m thinking, ‘My God, if the second count doesn’t go well, this is gonna be embarrassing.’ But of course, it did, and I was confident it was going to.’”
Tacopina added that the nerves appeared to get the better of Rocky, who “didn’t know if he was going to go home and see his two babies that night or start a decade-long prison sentence literally that day.”
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