“ASAP Yams was like the Great Gatsby” – ASAP Rocky
Before performing at SXSW last week, A$AP Rocky invited MTV News to his home to open up for the first time on the death of his best friend, A$AP Yams. In the brief interview above, Rocky details his brother having prescription drug problems over the summer, which resulted in Manhattan mogul having to head to rehab for a period of time.
Over the weekend, news surfaced that medical examiners ruled Steven Rodriguez death as an accident from drug intoxication. Rocky soon went to clarify Yams suffocated on vomit in his sleep, due to sleep apnea – citing his former music partner would choke on his tongue at times during the night. Watch more from the interview above, including a P.S.A. to users of drugs that contributed to the death of the former A$AP Mob founder.
Here’s an excerpt below of A$AP Rocky’s recent interview with the New York Times.
Last summer, Yams went to rehab after a plane ride that had gone very poorly. Debilitatingly high, he had to be pushed in a wheelchair when he got off the plane. “He looked like Pac when Pac got shot,” Rocky said, invoking Tupac Shakur’s 1994 shooting at Quad Studios in New York. “I hated to see him like that. That was it, man. It was like, ‘You got to go to rehab.’ ”
The night of Yams’s death, Rocky was one of several friends hanging out in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, apartment Yams shared with ASAP Lou, another member of the crew. At around 3 a.m., Lou pulled him aside and told him something was wrong.
Yams wouldn’t wake up, and there was vomit on the bed. They turned him over. “I just look at his face. I look at Lou. You could just tell. We knew,” Rocky said. “I was scared,” he said. “I was wilding on everybody, like, ‘Who let him do drugs?,’ even though you can’t blame nobody.”
(The office of New York City’s chief medical examiner ruled the death an accident caused by acute mixed drug intoxication, including opiates and benzodiazepine. A spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the specific drugs found in his system.)
They all went to Woodhull Medical Center, where Rocky was met by his ex-girlfriend, the model Chanel Iman. “They were tight,” he said. “She really took it hard, man. She was crying more than me.”
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