A$AP Yams‘ followers and family members took time to acknowledged the nine-year anniversary of his passing this week, amongst them his mom, who commemorated the day with a heartfelt.
Taking to Instagram with an image of Yams as a baby on Thursday (January 18), Tatianna Paulino mirrored on the near-decade she’s lived with out her child boy.
“Pricey son these 9 years have been devastating for me,” she wrote in a caption initially written in Spanish. “that horrible evening my coronary heart broke in half, how I want to flip again time and see you once more come dwelling and hug you and inform you how a lot I really like you, proper now that’s inconceivable, I really like you’re taking this second to thank my household my buddies and particularly my son’s buddies with none of you I don’t know what would have been of me in these 9 years.”
She continued: “My beloved son immediately I’ll do my finest to have a good time your life, I do know that sometime I’ll kiss and hug you once more, so long as I reside I’ll proceed your legacy. HAPPY YAMS DAY”
In a second publish, she shared a photograph of Yams’ tombstone with a floral association within the form of an Air Jordan 1.
You possibly can view them each under.
Steven “A$AP Yams” Rodriguez, the co-founder and visionary behind Harlem’s A$AP Mob collective, handed away on the tender age of 26 on January 18, 2015. His loss of life was dominated an unintentional overdose attributable to acute combined drug intoxication, in keeping with the New York Metropolis chief health worker.
In a 2022 dialog with Interview Journal, A$AP Rocky opened up about discovering Yams’ unresponsive physique in his Brooklyn condo that fateful day.
Prompted by a query from interviewer Jerrod Carmichael about discovering humor in life’s low factors, Rocky recalled an unintentionally humorous second that occurred as he and fellow Mob member A$AP Lou tried to revive their unconscious pal.
“Yo, no bullshit. The day Yams died, me and Lou discovered him and he wasn’t responsive,” he replied. “We ran to the kitchen to get water, ice, shit like that. I acquired to the kitchen first, and I might see into the hallway. I’m on the sink pouring water, and I look down the corridor and see Lou working to assist me seize some ice to wake Yams up.”
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Rocky continued: “It was like a cartoon — my man tripped and slid down the corridor on a carpet like Aladdin, bro. He went from the lounge and slid all the way in which to the kitchen. I’m actually dying crying, however I’m crying from laughing, and I’m crying ’trigger Yams is useless.”
That lighthearted story doesn’t take away from the horror that A$AP Rocky skilled when in that second, although; nor the grief and unhappiness that he nonetheless carries within the wake of Yams’ loss of life.
“I simply have a look at his face. I have a look at Lou. You possibly can simply inform. We knew,” Rocky instructed The New York Instances in 2015 whereas reflecting on the tragedy. “I used to be scared. I used to be wilding on everyone, like, ‘Who let him do medication?’ Although you possibly can’t blame no one.”
He added in an MTV Information interview that very same month, “When it comes right down to it, would I commerce this music for Yams? Sure. As a result of in all actuality, Yams is the one person who’s really been by means of this shit with me and is aware of how I really feel.”
