Key Takeaways:

• The gravesite go to introduced collectively Max B, A$AP Yams’ mom and Karen Civil to honor the late A$AP Mob co-founder.
• The two Harlem figures shared a deep artistic bond, with A$AP Yams publicly supporting Max B’s music throughout his incarceration.
• The second marked the most recent of Max B’s public appearances since his launch.

On Thursday (Nov. 13), Harlem rapper Max B paid tribute to late music government and supervisor A$AP Yams by visiting his gravesite on what would have been the influential determine’s 37th birthday. Snaps of the go to were shared by Max B’s official fan web page, together with ASAP Mob and Tati Paulino, A$AP Yam’s mom. Longtime trade veteran Karen Civil was additionally in attendance.

Max B shared a longstanding reference to A$AP Yams by Harlem’s artistic networks. As reported, A$AP Yams publicly recognized the “I Gotta Habit” rapper as a serious inspiration on the collective’s growing sound and picture. Throughout Max B’s incarceration, A$AP Yams continued to raise his work by selling his music on-line and introducing his affect to youthful audiences. “[Shoutout] Max B. He would give me $100 and a bottle of [Hennessy] to help pack up his mixtapes when I was 16,” the A$AP frontman as soon as tweeted.

Tragically, the 2 have been by no means in a position to reunite in particular person. In 2015, A$AP Yams died of an accidental overdose on the age of 26. Months after his passing, A$AP Rocky recalled the tragedy to music/asap-rocky-dearly-missing-asap-yams-half-of-their-formidable-hip-hop-tag-team.html?_r=1″>The New York Times: “I just [looked] at his face. I [looked] at [A$AP] Lou. You could just tell. We knew. I was scared. I was wilding on everybody, like, ‘Who let him do drugs?,’ even though you can’t blame nobody.”

Max B’s launch from jail earlier this month concluded a 16-year authorized journey that started with a 2009 conviction. Despite spending greater than a decade behind bars, he maintained cultural visibility as signature components of his type, similar to his “wavy” terminology and melodic supply, remained broadly cited in hip hop. Arguably, A$AP Yams’ involvement in A$AP Rocky’s early releases additional bolstered Max B’s influence, as melodies and flows harking back to his type appeared on tracks like “Get High” in 2010 and all through A$AP Rocky’s debut, LIVE.LOVE.A$AP.