A$Ap Rocky

Asap Rocky is a popular American rapper born as Rakim Mayers in October 1988. The rapper is however quite popular across other circles with a very lucrative modeling and movie acting career. His music career however launched off with a bang after an impressive mixtape release in 2011. He is also popularly known as Lord Flacko in directing circles.

About

The rapper was born to an African American mom and a father of Barbados origin in New York, Harlem. He had 2 siblings, a boy and a girl. The family exposed him to hip hop rapping at a young age of about 9 and he was even named after a brother of the old time hip-hop stars Eric & Rakim.

He has continued to rap with family considering his Mob member cousin Nast. After moving to Pennsylvania, he started to take the rapping more serious and the eventual incarceration of his father and the following death of both his father and mentoring brother drove him to rap even more as an honor to them.

Hip-hop Career

After the extremely well received mix tape in 2011, Rakim attracted the attention of big time producers including the label Polo GM and even Sony Ent. Less than two years later, Asap managed to release his very first album titled Long live which was an instant hit and managed to find its way to the top of the Prestigious Billboard 200 listing. He followed this impressive performance shortly afterwards with another album titled Long Last in 2015 which again followed the trend of topping the Billboard list.