A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams has passed away at age 26. Several members of the New York City collective confirmed the death on Twitter and Instagram, but no further details about his death have been made public.
A$AP Yams, whose given name was Steven Rodriguez, interned with Diplomats Records as a teenager. In 2007, at 17-years old, Yams helped form the A$AP Mob collective alongside A$AP Bari and A$AP Illz. Yams’ long-running and frequently-updated Tumblr account drew widespread attention for its curation of music, fashion and art.
In 2013, the New York Times profiled Yams and painted him as an executive in the vain of Puff Daddy, Damon Dash and Irv Gotti.
“Much of what you hear in Rocky—a fully assimilated take on Hip Hop styles from across the country and from across time periods—can be traced back to Yams, who spent his formative years studying the genre, then learning how to transmit his taste to others,” the paper’s Jon Caramanica wrote. “Hip Hop has long been obsessed with fealty to a specific place and time, and Yams’s vision of the genre as an open house, not a fortress, qualifies as a radical one.”
A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg and the official A$AP Mob account paid tribute to their fallen founder with a series of Instagram posts. Drake and Mac Miller also took to Twitter to share their condolences.
A$AP Yams’ final Tumblr post came at 4:14 am on Friday (January 16) in which he shared a picture of himself alongside Mr. MFN Exquire and Da$h.
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Only way a healthy 26 year old dies is of an OD.
who said he was healthy? he had a giant purple blob on his face.
That’s a birthmark you idiot.
you a sucker, nothing to say about some bars, fashion acumen, his life, you wanna talk about how he died like you some well practiced doctor…lol….you only came here to slander punkboy
Agreed, 26 and healthy is an O.D…. People saying this is slander go back to English class. This is called speculation you retard.
Right…cause everybody in the world is dyin only from OD… at least have some respect for somebody who died arse… Even if it’s confirmed it’s from pussy ass to diss dead people who ain’t gonna answer back
the last picture he posted he was holding the double styrofoam cups, and this wigga aint have no bars.
anyone can pose with a styrofoam cup & it be nothing but water or gatorade in it clown. point is why are YOU worried about HOW he died? u just wanna throw shade because u a nobody who wanna b special
fuck azealia banks
rip Yams fuck Azealia Banks
WORD NIGGA
judging by the picture of dude with asap ferg maybe his liver was fucked because looked at that belly lol
and whats up with that shit stain on his face? next time somebody takes your picture how about at least bother to wash your face, loser
yeah bro shoulda scubbed his birthmark right off his face… LOL fuck outta here you disrespectful clown
sad and not even funny. i hope you grow up one day
what did this buttface actually do? rapper, producer, what? ummm nothing? oh yeah, his face seems yellow in the first picture and the bloated belly in the pic with ferg are tell tale signs of liver disease, like hepatitis
learn to read, fucktard
his last tweet on January 16th reads:
BODEINE BRAZY
(codeine crazy – dude overdosed on lean)
Oh so you can confirm that he died of lean then? What a dumbass.
well how could i confirm it i wasnt there but his last tweet was BODEINE BRAZY (pretty sure it means codeine crazy).. i guess he wanted to be a blood so he didnt use the c letter to begin the words he used b instead so codeine crazy became bodeine brazy in his wanna be gangsta blood mind.
the next thing you know, theres a picture of asap rocky at the hospital lookin all distraught in the hallway.. and the person who took it and uploaded it had the caption say something like “asap rocky at the hospital where yams died”
so its pretty obvious dude went into a coma from lean and then died at the hospital.
^^You’re a moron.
Why so sensitive Goku and Smdh? Its just Woody’s opinion, and not like it came from left field either. 26 is when most people die. When your on drugs you can live til your 95 years old. Now how smart was that comment.
sacrificed to illuminati.
Yep!!!
rip but lets play name that drug he died off of
ill guess lean
he posted something on twitter about codeine the day or 2 before
To die so young is a tragedy
he was only 26 so it could only be one thing, yams was well known to sip the lean often, R.I.P. hope this is a wake up call to other rappers that that purple shit aint no joke
its sad he had to use so much drugs because he had self esteem issues because of that thing on his face
you aint from houston put down the lean
That’s what happens when you drink cough syrup like an imbecile.
Robotussin DM is a quality and affordable drug to get hella fucked up on if you’re on a budget or just wanna trip the fuck out. There’s a reason it comes so highly recommended by Dr. Mom.
that party till I die saying is in full affect….keep it goin kids….maybe if the media would invent in someone and something positive these kids wouldn’t think this is the life to live….. dude was 26……………….