RIP A$AP YAMS
DocMcCoy
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This is such sad news.
There seems little point in even starting a thread like this on here anymore, but fuck it, Yams completely changed the face of hip-hop. Whether or not you approve of the direction it's gone in since is beside the point - dude was a frighteningly thorough and knowledgeable student of hip-hop and street culture and, using just his own smarts and his own taste plus a little bit of inside knowledge acquired as a workie for Dipset, managed to turn the entire rap game on its head from a fucking tumblr. And to see so much of the shit he set off via that site bleeding into mainstream pop culture years later - with hardly anyone realising - was fucking crazy. One of the most important figures to have emerged in hip-hop this century. RIP.
There seems little point in even starting a thread like this on here anymore, but fuck it, Yams completely changed the face of hip-hop. Whether or not you approve of the direction it's gone in since is beside the point - dude was a frighteningly thorough and knowledgeable student of hip-hop and street culture and, using just his own smarts and his own taste plus a little bit of inside knowledge acquired as a workie for Dipset, managed to turn the entire rap game on its head from a fucking tumblr. And to see so much of the shit he set off via that site bleeding into mainstream pop culture years later - with hardly anyone realising - was fucking crazy. One of the most important figures to have emerged in hip-hop this century. RIP.
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i know homies that were close with him
its terribly sad cause he was only getting started
RIP
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Oh. And thanks to Doc for starting the thread. I hope in the future that when you think about a thread idea and say "ahhh that's probably pointless," you don't listen to your inner doc and post it anyways. We need more threads like this. I'm not young enough that I have any friends/colleagues into A$AP stuff, but I'm for sure old enough that most of my friends and colleagues do not even know they exist.
Loved "Trillmatic". The rest, not so memorable. I am not in the A$AP target demographic vis-a-vis the lifestyle-as-fashion element.
Which is what dude was winning at, and I guess that's where it's all going.
indeed
Anyhoo. I like the ASAP stuff, so I'm a fan of what he started even though I didn't know it.