He was 26 years old.
“We bugged out on New Years, I didn’t know that would be the last time Seeing my brother,” A$AP Ferg, one of the stars who emerged from the A$AP collective, wrote in a post on Instagram. “R.i.P bro. We all love and Miss you.”
The group’s record company, RCA Records, said it was “shocked and saddened to hear of the death of A$AP Yams,” according to a statement reported by Rolling Stone.
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Yams was born to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, according to The New York Times interview. He grew up on the southern edge of Harlem with a lifelong obsession with hip-hop.
“Yams is the hip-hop encyclopedia,” Rocky said in the article. “He’s no joke. That’s one person I can’t front on when it comes to music.”
