- Unfortunately, we were forced to reject the application. It is a comprehensive assessment of logistics, a security issue and an order question. It has been too short of a time that we will not be able to compete, ”says Vilhelm Grevik, section manager at the Prison Service, to Dagens Nyheter.

It was on Monday that the Prison and Probation Service, via ASAP Rocky's lawyer, received the artist's formal application to perform a gig for the inmates at Kronoberg Detention Center or another detention center in Stockholm. But there will be no gig.

One reason should be that there may be privacy issues, as ASAP Rocky wants to film the gig.

Make Sweden play

ASAP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, plays in the Globe in Stockholm on December 11 and wanted the arrest in the detention to take place on the same day or December 12.

This summer, ASAP Rocky was held in custody for over a month on the Kronoberg arrest and later sentenced to conditional assault. During the detention period, the artist became friends with several of his fellow prisoners.

ASAP Rocky has previously stated that he wants to "reform" Swedish prisons, among other things by designing and donating soft clothing to the inmates, something that the Cultural News has previously reported.