Wireless Festival 2019: J Hus confirmed as replacement for ASAP Rocky at Finsbury Park after US rapper detained in Sweden

J Hus will now play at Wireless Festival
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Jacob Jarvis6 July 2019
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London rapper J Hus has been confirmed as a replacement ASAP Rocky at Wireless Festival after the US star was detained in Sweden.

A Swedish court ordered the New York-born hip-hop star to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention, as police investigate a brawl in downtown Stockholm.

An update from Wireless Festival on Twitter said: "We now know for sure that A$AP Rocky won’t be able to make his set tomorrow.

"We’ve been busy making calls….and now we’re hyped to say London’s J HUS is joining the line-up and Rae Sremmurd will close the show."

J Hus, 24, will be on stage from 7.15pm on Sunday, in the penultimate set of the day of the event in Finsbury Park.

The rapper, real name Momodou Lamin Jallow, rose to prominence with the release of his mixtape The 15th Day in 2015.

Rapper ASAP Rocky has been detained in Sweden
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Two years later he released debut album Common Sense, which broke the UK top 10 and spawned his biggest single to date, Did You See.

ASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, is being held following a hearing at the Stockholm District Court on Friday.

Defence lawyer Henrik Olsson Lilja said they would appeal the ruling, insisting the 30-year-old rapper and his group "were attacked and he made use of self-defence".

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