26-year-old popular music producer A$AP Yams dies

The founder of the popular A$AP Mob hip-hop collective from Harlem, New York, A$AP Yams has died at age 26. The news was announced on Sunday. The cause of death was not revealed. Speaking to VladTV via phone, A$AP Mob rapper A$AP Ant denied rumors that said the producer may have died of a prescription drug overdose, saying, “That’s not what happened at all.”

The music producer’s real name was Steven Rodriguez and he also went by Yamborghini. He was born in Harlem to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father.

Two years later, A$AP Mob was formed and made rappers such as A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg famous nationwide.