Fight Shuts Down A$AP Rocky’s PUMA Party in New York — NYPD Clears the Building
The shoes were supposed to be the story. Instead, the clip running the timeline from A$AP Rocky’s PUMA Suede 94 launch shows grown men wrestling and swinging on each other while security scrambles to pull them apart.
The launch — a ’90s-rave-styled party in Chelsea, Manhattan, celebrating the worldwide release of Rocky’s navy Suede 94 with PUMA — went sideways late Thursday night, November 12. Footage obtained by TMZ shows several attendees throwing punches inside the commercial building hosting the event as staff and security rushed in to break it up.
The NYPD told TMZ officers got a call about a disturbance at roughly 10:30 PM, and when they arrived they found what the department described as a “disorderly group.” The venue was evacuated soon after, ending the party on the spot.
The question everybody had first — where was Rocky in all this? He was at the launch, but by every account so far he was not part of the altercation, which broke out among other attendees. It’s still unclear whether anyone was arrested, and as of this writing neither Rocky nor PUMA has put out a statement about what happened.
That distinction matters. Rocky spent part of early 2025 in a Los Angeles courtroom fighting assault charges tied to a 2021 accusation from former A$AP Mob associate A$AP Relli — a jury acquitted him in February 2025 — so a clip of punches flying at his own event is exactly the kind of thing that gets misread before the facts catch up. On the facts available now: a fight at his party, not a fight by him.
The Suede is a cornerstone of hip-hop and skate style going back to the b-boy era, and Rocky’s take on it was an easy sell for PUMA. The collection is still waiting for a launch night people remember for the right reasons.
Sources: TMZ footage and NYPD statements as reported by TMZ; event details from Rolling Out and DancehallMag coverage of the launch.
