The photos will be known to anyone who follows Rocky as soon as possible.
The rapper/actor/brand-endorist extraordinaire, continues from a black SUV, with a spotless designer clothing and darkened Ray-Bans, with a Bogart-like flair.
In some of these shots, Rocky wears a Saint Laurent Trench Coat and Crimson Tie of $ 4,000, in others he wears a huge Gucci Cashmere jacket, despite the moderate climates of Los Angeles. He is flanked by Dickset bodyguards and goes to the camera that looks confident and calm.
We have seen a similar Paparazzi recordings from Rocky for many times – while wading to the first row of a fashion show, or his wife Rihanna accompanies dinner.
However, the institution is for this latest series of Rocky Photos, the Los Angeles County Superior Court House.
For more than a week, the rapper, born Rakim Mayers, has arrived at this Boxy judicial structure to be tried on two crime counts of abuse with a semi -automatic firearm, arising from a words of 2021 with his former Employee Asap Relli, born Terell Ephron.
And because of all this there is inexplicable rocky, as if he was marching a billboard. In his designer suits and spit gloss shoes he looks exactly as we expect from a man modeled to Gucci, in a hood walked through Air Show, the ‘The Prettiest Man Alive’ was labeled by GQ and in June 2024 organized one Parisian fashion show for his AWGE label. He is an expert in signing brand offers, who have worked with Under Armor, Bottega Veneta, Gucci and Guess. He currently has an important collaboration with PUMA, including $ 120 sneakers, a $ 200 and $ 175 training pants sweatshirt.
“Every photo, the styling is on point, his hair looks great, the skin looks great,” said Sowmya Krishnamurthy, a music journalist and author of “Fashion Killa: how hip hop brought about a revolution in high fashion.”
There is a temptation here to read in this fashion choices – Court of Judgment is often carefully chosen to influence a jury. But this is also how Rocky, whose image has darkened his musical success in many ways, has presented itself in public for years.
And that makes these images so creepy. We see Rocky in the highly stylized way we are used to, but in an environment where focusing on his fashion choices the seriousness of his situation, the trivialization-true for years in prison, there is no place on a best dressed list is what is being assessed .
For the wider audience there is a “waiting, what?” Feel in the case and the potential career-picking implications.
Rocky was arrested in 2022, but was released on Bond, which means that he was free to perform at concerts, fashion shows and model in fashion campaigns. The Rocky business itself was originally planned for November, but was postponed so that he could weigh the Rolling Loud Music Festival in Thailand. The fact that he has been so public in recent years has let the case deteriorate, but the charges against Rocky remain serious.
He previously rejected a plea that would have brought him to prison for six months with a conditional sentence of seven years and three years conditional.
Video images presented in the test show Rocky waving what seems to be a gun. Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina has argued that this was a “plug gun” that was unable to fire real ammunition.
The test photos are all the more brain that are looking if you remember that not long ago Rocky star in a Bottega Veneta advertisement campaign is meant that looks like paparazzi recordings.
“Throughout history there has always been a funny relationship between photographers and celebrities,” wrote Rocky in one Instagram -Report Showing the campaign images, which got him stuck in a gray sweat suit, crossing the street in a denim shirt and flowers in an earthly channel.
Not much imagination is needed to see one of these Suit and Court of Court shots entered with the Bottega Veneta images. The line between previous public persona and these current shots of the courthouse is so porous, the only thing that is missing is a logo.
This dissonance could be felt when, on Monday morning, and on Tuesday on Tuesday, Saint Laurent sent an e -mail to the press with the $ 1,100 derbies, $ 1,400 woolen Chiné pants, $ 1,650 Satin Piqué -shirt and other clothing that Rocky recently Had worn out, with guidance with accompanying, with guidance with accompanying, with guidance with accompanying, with guidance with accompanying, with guidance with supervising, with guidance with supervising, with guidance with guidance with guidance with accompanying photos. Where he had worn that the Saint Laurent clothes were not mentioned.
Other brands, however, have remained mum -no PR Blast -e -Mails, no Instagram messages.
Mrs. Krishnamurthy offered that brands by not turning away from Rocky, demonstrating that they will support the rapper – despite the judgment.
“Perhaps this is an indication that these brands really see him as a valued partner,” said Mrs. Krishnamurthy.
There is a precedent here: in 2019 the rapper was found guilty of abuse in Stockholm and served more than a month in a Swedish detention center. That test did little to hinder its brand offers. What is more, the charges against him were public long before this process began and that did not stop labels to deal with him.
Certainly, in the court of public opinion, Rocky’s reputation seems intact. While a spectator came to court on 3 February on 3 February, “you always look so handsome.”
