A$AP Rocky Pays Tribute To A$AP Yams 11 Years After His Passing

A$AP Rocky and the remainder of the A$AP Mob all the time pay tribute to A$AP Yams on the anniversary of his passing, which is named Yams Day. He handed away 11 years in the past on the age of 26, and Rocky took a break from his Don’t Be Dumb rollout to pay tribute to his mentor, buddy, and collaborator on Twitter.

“I LOVE U STEVE , U STILL CHANGING MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER A WHOLE DECADE LATER , HAPPY YAMS DAY! #LONGLIVEYAMS,” he wrote as we speak (Sunday, January 18). Also, the Harlem inventive introduced a particular livestream to rejoice Yams Day, accessible through Twitch, Amazon Music, and Amazon Prime at 9PM EST as we speak.

Rocky’s social media exercise additionally included reposts from his AWGE model, different social media pages, and shut colleagues. It’s bittersweet to see people share the ache of Yams’ passing whereas additionally celebrating the indelible legacy he left behind.

It additionally comes at a busy time for A$AP Rocky, who simply dropped his new album Don’t Be Dumb after almost eight years of teasing it since his final undertaking, 2018’s TESTING. But there’s all the time time to honor those that are now not by your aspect.

For these unaware, A$AP Rocky and A$AP Yams met by means of mutual associates round 2008 in Harlem, again when the previous was beginning to take rapping slightly extra critically. Yams’ steering, hip-hop information, path, and trade expertise as a Diplomat Records intern helped shape the early phase of Rocky’s career. Eventually, he and the remainder of the A$AP Mob blew up, and the remaining was historical past.

Sadly, A$AP Yams handed away in 2015 on account of problems from an unintentional overdose. In the years following, the A$AP Mob got here collectively to rejoice his life through a number of “Yams Day” occasions and live shows.

Even with the success surrounding Don’t Be Dumb proper now and all the things else the A$AP Mob members have occurring, it should be a troublesome time for them, and particularly for Yams’ household. While issues are now not the identical, his spirit and presence continues to resonate as we speak and yield bountiful outcomes for his shut circle of family members, and even these like followers who by no means met him.