Days after the official cause of A$AP Yams’ death – acute mixed drug intoxication – is released, friend and business partner, A$AP Rocky opens up about his drug use. The “Indie” artist tells the New York Times that Yams, real name Steven Rodriguez was always a mystery. “He was like the Great Gatsby.” A mystery that the A$AP creator took into his Xanex and lean habit.

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“He always had a struggle with drugs,” says A$AP Rocky. It’s just that “he went out his way to hide it. I caught him a bunch of times, but he would still hide it. He was kind of private about it. He didn’t want his mom to know, he didn’t want me to know.”

There were times where the cat was let out of the bag. Rocky recalls last summer when his friend decided to go to rehab. After exiting a plane in a wheelchair for being so high, Rodriguez made the decision to slow down the drug use. “He looked like Pac when Pac got shot,” Pretty Flacko mentions. “I hated to see him like that. That was it, man. It was like, ‘You got to go to rehab.'”

The A$AP Mob member says that although his friend is gone, he’s not alone. “I just miss him.” For this, he plans to continue to seek advice from his friend in the sky. “We’re going to see if he’s still got it even from up there.” Ohhhh … (tear).

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