Asap Rocky was born on October 3, 1988, in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. His nationality is American, and he is of Black ethnicity. Adrian Mayers, his father from Barbados, died in 2012.
ASAP Rocky with girlfriend Zoe Kravitz at the 2015 MET Gala Event Race / Ethnicity Black He is of African-Barbadian and African-American descent.
Who is ASAP Rocky?
Rakim Athelaston Mayers (born October 3, 1988), known professionally as ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky; / ˈeɪsæp /, AY-sap ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor from Manhattan. He is a member of the hip hop collective A$AP Mob, from which he adopted his moniker .
A$AP Rocky spent his teenage years selling cannabis and crack while moving around homeless shelters with his mother and sister. At age 15, he was selling crack in the Bronx. After living for a period in a shelter with his mother in New York City, he moved to Midtown Manhattan.
However, despite being his second consecutive number-one album, At. Long. Last. ASAP began to decline in album-equivalent sales, becoming Rocky’s lowest-selling album in his career. On June 11, 2015, Rocky was featured on The Tonight Show, where he performed the song “L$D” with The Roots.
He and Raider Klan also accused ASAP Mob of copying their style, and Rocky of using lyrics from SpaceGhostPurrp’s song “My Enemy” on “Goldie”. Rocky responded in a July interview for MTV, saying that SpaceGhostPurrp is “try [ing] to build hype” and told him to “stick to makin’ beats”.
On July 23, 2018, Rocky and Tyler, The Creator announced a collaborative project, WANGSAP, by releasing a music video of a remix of Monica’s ” Knock Knock ” named “Potato Salad” on AWGE’s “AWGE DVD (Vol. 3)”.
On February 16, Rocky collaborated with Gucci Mane and 21 Savage for “Cocky”, in promotion of the film Uncle Drew . He released the single “Bad Company” on March 27. It features rapper BlocBoy JB, as well as further allusions to Testing in its marketing. On April 5, he released a second single: “ASAP Forever”.
Rocky is featured on “ Blended Family (What You Do for Love) “, a track written with Alicia Keys for her sixth studio album Here in 2016. He is also featured on two tracks from the 2017 album Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey. The tracks are called “Summer Bummer”, which also features Playboi Carti, and “Groupie Love”.
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