Kanye West and
Kim Kardashian-West are reportedly doing all they can to free
A$AP Rocky.
According to a report TMZ published Thursday morning (July 18), the Wests are currently in talks with President
Donald Trump and the White House to help expedite Rocky's release from a Swedish jail. The celebrity gossip site's sources say that 'Ye is the one who encouraged his wife to reach out to the White House when they heard about the Harlem rapper's case earlier this month.
Kim reportedly called Trump's senior advisor, Jared Kushner, who then spoke to his father-in-law Trump about Rocky's situation in
Sweden. Apparently, the president believes Rocky has been treated unfairly and wants to help.
While this report seems to indicate that the U.S. State Department is now invested in freeing Rocky. However, it doesn't look like it's going to be an easy battle. TMZ also reports that Swedish officials are not cracking under the pressure. Despite the overwhelming support Rocky has received back home and online, sources suspect that Sweden's government may delay their decision on Rocky's case thus resulting in more jail time for the Testing rapper.
News of Kanye and Kim's purported efforts to free Rocky surfaces one day after the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, a group that includes Andre Carson and Hakeem Jeffries. Rep. Adriano Espaillat and more held a press conference where they urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to free Rocky from jail.
Earlier this month, Rocky was arrested for suspicion of assault and he has been locked up in solitary confinement at a Swedish jail for the past two weeks after a video of the rapper fighting a man in the streets of Sweden went viral. Rocky's team claimed that a Swedish man reportedly harassed him and his entourage for blocks as they were walking the streets of Stockholm. They say that Rocky and company only attacked when after a woman said that one of the men had groped them.