The hip-hop community and most notably, A$AP Mob was rocked by the news that the rap collective's founder A$AP Yams had died. It was later determined that he died of an accidental drug overdose, but his impact as a marketing and music mind lives on in the lives of others and through timeless pieces of sound. Before his death, Yams was working on an album and it has lain unfinished as his friends continue to work on their own projects and mourn his passing. Not all may be lost as A$AP Rocky has decided to take it upon himself to try and finish the album posthumously for Yams. This comes after A$AP Rocky just released his critically acclaimed sophomore album At.Long.Last.A$AP earlier this week.
Rocky revealed this in a recent interview with Charlie Sloth of BBC 1xtra.
"Yams started an album before he passed and he left his notebooks and blueprints and I'm just picking where he left up," Rocky told Sloth. "Because me and him were gonna do the album together. He was working on a crazy album. I'm letting people know that if I do something good, the next thing I do will be have to be great."
Yams was featured as an executive producer on A.L.L.A.
The whole interview is worthwhile as Rocky shares some of the tracks that have influenced him to this point on his journey of making A.L.L.A. He also talks the merit of grime, a form of rapping started and honed in the UK, but started to percolate overseas in the United States and worldwide.
Check the full interview below via Hot New Hip-Hop and skip ahead to 14:15 to hear his comments about Yams. Try and ignore all of the bomb sound effects in there.
