Nike Cuts Ties With A$AP Bari Due To Sexual Assault Allegations
A video surfaced of the co-founder of A$AP Mob saying some pretty disgusting things to a woman in a hotel room.
According to HipHopDX, Bari was shouting at the woman, saying that she hooked up with his assistant and now she needed to hook up with him. Well, at least, that’s as much as I can paraphrase it without being too graphic.
At any rate, the clothing company that Bari has, VLONE, linked up with Nike to create exclusive versions of Air Force 1’s, and Nike planned on working with him again, that is until this happened.
Bari was rumored to have been held by U.K. Authorities on the subject, to which Billboard reports that he denied a few weeks prior.
Bari says the video is misleading, and that he never was arrested.
The video, which was since removed from Instagram, but uploaded to VidMe shows a naked woman trying to run away from the camera.
As we’ve learned from R.Kelly’s current situation, even if your allegations are just rumors or taken out of context, it can hurt your ticket sales.
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