By the time he released his first full-length, 2013’s $AP, he’d already toured with Drake and performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival, straddling mainstream and indie without pulling a muscle. Everywhere he went, from Sotheby’s on down, it seemed like Rocky belonged.īorn Rakim Mayers in 1988, Rocky fell in with the Harlem-based A$AP Mob in his late teens-a collective that, like Odd Future in Los Angeles, functioned as much like a creative agency as a rap crew, bringing a sense of self-sufficiency and independence to the mainstream machine. He made albums the way interior designers made rooms: unlikely juxtapositions, interesting connections. He was Gucci, he was street, he was New York without the burden of having to carry that New York torch. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar Fuckin’ Problem ASAP Rocky s major label debut, LongLiveASAP, is coming soon via Polo Grounds/RCA. His cousin is fellow ASAP Mob member ASAP Nast. She amount to probably, like, a million of the other ones. He said, Life is so much better when you got the one. Both Rakim and Erica’s names are taken from the Eric B. ASAP Rocky and Riri confirmed their romance earlier this year during an interview with GQ, where ASAP Rocky spoke about his love for Ri. He has an older brother and an older sister, Erika. More than just a rapper, though, Rocky was a representation of a next-gen model of hip-hop, a post-internet artist who synthesized decades of rap history into a sound that was seamless, catchy, mainstream but with a sense of style that felt elevated. Rakim Athelaston Mayers was born on October 3, 1988, in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.
Still, the moment felt like a landmark, a measure of cultural influence that few rappers had attained. That Rocky moved in arty, high-society circles wasn’t news: He’d done the fashion thing, gone to the Met Gala, collaborated with Raf Simons when Simons was at Dior. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. In 2018, A$AP Rocky staged a “performance installation” called Lab Rat on the seventh floor of venerated auction house Sotheby’s. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.