Rocky and Yams met in 2008 through a mutual friend. Yams was an archetypal New York rap kid for the 21st century: enamored enough by the Dips’ chaos mythos to work for free, street smart enough to see what levers they were pulling to finance the whole thing, yet with enough lingering love for golden-agers and Five Percenters to write raps of his own under a name like Sensei the Golden Child. When he was 16, he dropped out of high school so he could focus on his unpaid internship with Dipset, packaging mixtapes while slipping a few into his backpack to sell on the side. Steven Rodriguez, who would later rechristen himself A$AP Yams, was letting his mind drift-cutting class to hunt for obscure records on Canal St. Meanwhile, also in Harlem, another young man was studying the game from the inside. He was caught with a gun, charged with attempted murder, and spent a couple weeks on Rikers Island before getting off. By the time he was a teenager, Rocky was trafficking a bit as well, though he says he generally kept that to the Bronx. At one point after his father was sentenced to prison on drug charges and his older brother was killed, he and his mother stayed in a shelter. He lived briefly outside the city, in Pennsylvania, but for the most part grew up in Harlem.
Rocky was born Rakim Mayers in the fall of 1988, and named after the rapper who ruled New York at the time (an older sister is named Erika B.
It’s best understood not as a hard break in the genre’s history but as something fleeting, a snapshot distinct and elusive as its airiest Clams Casino beats. But the paradigm shift it seemed to signal never really came. It made Rocky as big a star as anyone could have expected. A decade after the fact, $AP sounds as hazily inspired as ever. While Rocky remains an A-list rapper - it is something of a running joke how frequently he appears atop festival flyers, even between album cycles - he has also always seemed like a relic of that moment, a little talisman of the early 2010s. “Shе keep my secret, she keep my fridge packed, my freezer lit.Last week, having paid whatever publishing ransom necessary, A$AP Rocky and RCA Records announced that $AP, the Harlem rapper’s debut mixtape, would finally be available on digital streaming platforms in time for the tenth anniversary of its Halloween release. “I don’t beat my bitch, I need my bitch/Shе clean my crib, she feed my friends,” he raps. Rocky also seems to shade Rih’s ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who was arrested for domestic violence when he and Rihanna were dating. Spliced among clips of women dancing and the streets of New York, the power couple is spotted sitting on a balcony rocking furry fits and eating a meal as Rocky pours some of his drink out as a neighbor watches on. In one scene, the video shows close-ups of both stars’ teeth, bedazzled by grills with the words “Marry me?” and “I do.” “Just pick the number that you couldn’t count to/Like an attitude, curve a n- when she didn’t have too/Around the lords like a British counsel.”ĭid A$AP Rocky just propose to Rihanna in his new video for "D.M.B." 👀💍 /tmAlSgCFRe “She got bank accounts, too/With big amounts, shit you couldn’t count,” Rocky raps about Rihanna’s Riches. Oh, and in one scene Rocky asks Rih to marry him using his teeth (and we don’t mean by speaking). A$AP Rocky and Rihanna rule the streets of New York City in the new video for “D.M.B.” On Thursday, Rocky released the music video for his new track - an acronym for “Dat’s My Bitch” - rapping an ode to the mother of his future son.
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