R.I.P ASAP Yams ....

GrimlocK said:

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

How did he die?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Peep Game said:

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

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