R.I.P ASAP Yams ....

[Gill Baka Esq. LLC.]

Damn. Didn't know much about him or A$ap mob in general but that's sad.

How did he die?

 

[jbc908]

Damn. Didn't know much about him or A$ap mob in general but that's sad.

How did he die?

word is oxy od, yams is the homie but i cant stress enough that prescript drugs are the worse drugs

 

[lamekilla]

Wow. RIP yams

 

[sneakaprince]

Posted in the thread in music (aka the dead section).... RIP Yams, felt like I got to know him much more with that noisy documentary.

ASAP is ahead of their time, I know Rocky and the Mob going thru it.



Can't front as soon as I heard he passed I figured it was Lean or some other drug... Dudes gotta learn to walk away from that ****.

 

[mrmfingesq7]

RIP YAMS

 

[elpablo21]

26 years old

RIP

 

[airuphere23]

Can't live that kinda reckless lifestyle and expect to always survive each and every day. I feel bad for the brotha. R.I.P. and condolences to the ASAP crew.

 

[703 hwy]

Medicine ain't no joke. Pisses me off kinda. Sad to hear but can you really be sorry for dude. Anyhow, RIP.

 

[Coromanti]

RIP A$AP YAMS

 

[kevlar]

Rest in Paradise Stevie

 

[miamiboy]

SMH RIP but ****** needa stop sippin lean

 

[ramonayala]

Dam thats messed up. Dude career was about to really tamke off bein on XO

 

[slighted]

Just some background on Yams from Reddit:

in case some of u don't know, yams is a major part of the A$AP MOB. he was puttin rocky up on his blog and spreading the word everywhere blowing him up on the web. yams the reason rocky got big off his first video, giving it a way to get spread onto the internet. he was always working hard behind the scenes making sure everything asap put out was the best it could be. RIP.

Without Yams, A$AP and Rocky's whole sound, his whole style, wouldn't be anything like what it is.

He sculpted them to do the down-south, Triple 6 hazy beats, gold teeth, Raider Klan-inspired, screwed vocals style. The dude was so ******* savvy.

Like, I don't think Clams or Spaceghostpurrp or any of that would have been involved if it wasn't for him. He understood the street rap game, the internet weirdo rap game and how to transition all of that into festival headliner level.

I encourage anyone interested in A$AP, or hip hop, or how to tactically make a crew blow up go read the wayback archives of his old blog on real*****tumblr.tumblr.com

This dude was pretty much already the next Dame Da$h.

 
In 2007, Steven Rodriguez, professionally known as ASAP Yams, formed the collective internationally known as ASAP Mob, with fellow New Yorkers, now known as ASAP Bari and ASAP Illz.

Harlem-bred rapper ASAP Rocky, joined after Bari had kept bringing him up to Yams, who eventually took interest. Yams met Rocky in 2008 through mutual friends, when Rocky was still getting his sea legs as a rapper. Yams saw him as possessing a blend of Kid Cudi’s melodic sense and Mase’s Harlem flash. Rocky also had long, straight hair, pulled into a ponytail. “The good ‘Player’s Ball’ swag, definitely ‘So Fresh, So Clean’ swag,” Yams snickered, referring to some early Outkast looks. Rocky was seeking “somebody who could actually kind of direct to get to where we need to go, and that’s what Yams was. He was like the director.”

That meant almost daily work in the studio: listening to records from all sorts of hip-hop scenes, trying out different rhyme patterns and melodies, seeing which sounded best on Rocky. Soon he was incorporating Houston’s woozy moods and the intricate double-time rhyme patterns of the Midwest. “Yams is the hip-hop encyclopedia,” Rocky said. “He’s no joke. That’s one person I can’t front on when it comes to music.” New York rap is typically hermetic, but they were not. For years New York was hip-hop’s center of innovation and its historical repository, so for a young rapper to look explicitly elsewhere for influence verged on heretical.

The sound they arrived at for Rocky after two years of work included DNA from all of those other places, a platonic ideal of deeply schooled hip-hop.

 

[xsourdieselx]

Hard drugs ain't no joke
Wish ppl would realize that
Rip to tha gawd

 

[Peep Game]

Good looking out on that reddit post. Never knew how involved he was as a member of ASAP Mob

 

[deeksdog]

RIP ASAP YAMS....gotta get off the lean & codeine before it becomes a habit..stuff is hard to kick...

 

[sohoguy]

That damn lean..... We need to get that crap off the streets, rappers need to stop promoting stuff that's killing us, the youth need to stop following.

R.i.p yams

 

[mjwizkid]

RIP

 

[koudie from brooklyn]

Crazy !! [emoji]128532[/emoji]

- StayFreshhhh !!

 

[fx2]

damn, dude was my age...RIP

 

[mr marcus]

Good looking out on that reddit post. Never knew how involved he was as a member of ASAP Mob

 

[servechilled81]

 damn man

 

[lstylez23]

RIP YAMS |I

 

[360waves]

Lean is one hell of a concoction

 

[a blinkin]

Dang. That was crazy unexpected. RIP to Yams. If codeine really was the cause, I can only hope people wake up and see that this lean life isn't the deal.