As far as the root of Yams’ increased drug use, she reveals that not all was well in the A$AP camp at the time. She says that her son felt that he was being squeezed out of the collective that he helped create. She noted that Yams simply wanted to bring a group of creatives together, but was struggling with turning it into a company.
“My son was under a tremendous amount of pressure to keep the A$AP Mob collective striving together, successful and producing hit recordings,” she writes. “At the same time, he told me he felt as if he was being squeezed out of the group of creative friends he had spent so much time and energy putting and keeping together.”
She also added that even with the group seemingly doing well, “money was tight” for Yams and that she had to user her own employee benefits plan to pay for his drug rehab.
“The business began to weigh on him mentally and physically,” she says. “He often felt uneasy in having to make the transition from a fun collective of friends, to a business partner in A$AP Worldwide, the business. In my mind, his drug use was a strategy to decompress and release.”
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