New York Post

White House helped A$AP

- Emily Smith esmith@nypost.com

THE White House has secured better jailhouse conditions for A$AP Rocky, Page Six has learned. The Harlem hip-hop star has been locked up in a Swedish prison for more than two weeks after he got in a street fight with two men who had been tailing him and his entourage through the streets of Stockholm.

But when Rocky’s manager, John Ehmann, complained that his client’s conditions at the Kronoberg detention center were “inhumane,” the Urban Revitaliza­tion Coalition — an organizati­on set up by the Trump administra­tion — put Ehmann in contact with senior White House aide and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West also lobbied Kushner to intervene in Rocky’s case.

“Jared immediatel­y got Rocky moved to better living conditions,” Pastor Darrell Scott of the URC told Page Six exclusivel­y. “They had this guy in a crap hole. I don’t know if it’s a different facility [that he’s now in], but he’s at least on a different floor. It’s better surroundin­gs.”

Scott said that he and colleague Kareem Lanier told Trump about the situation as well.

“[Trump] asked, ‘Do you like the guy, do you trust him?’ And he said, ‘OK, we’ll look into it then.’ ” Scott added, “It was never a publicity grab . . . It’s just this administra­tion trying to help an American citizen overseas who’s in dire straits.” He added, “Jared called Sunday evening and said that it’s looking optimistic.”

Trump’s also got Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved, Scott tells us.

Meanwhile, the governor of the detention center — where Rocky’s being held because he’s been deemed a flight risk by Swedish authoritie­s — has told Page Six the facility has “been completely renovated.” Reports said Rocky was sleeping on a yoga mat, eating an apple a day and next to a feces-throwing inmate.

The State Department has said, “We expect all government­s, including Sweden, to treat American citizens fairly and with respect.”

Reps did not immediatel­y get back to us.

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