After living for a period in a shelter with his mother in New York City, he moved to midtown Manhattan.
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At the age of 15, he was selling crack in the Bronx. Ī$AP Rocky sold drugs while moving around homeless shelters with his mother and sister. He was also influenced by Mobb Deep, Three 6 Mafia, UGK, Run DMC, Wu-Tang Clan, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Mayers grew up admiring Harlem-based rap group The Diplomats. The death inspired Rocky to take rapping more seriously. When Mayers was 13, his brother was killed in Harlem. When Mayers was 12 years old, his father went to jail in connection with selling drugs he died in 2012.
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He learned how to rap from his older brother, who also wore the French braids hairdo that Mayers later adopted. Mayers started rapping at the age of 8, when he moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His cousin is fellow ASAP Mob member ASAP Nast. Mayers' first name was taken from the hip hop artist Rakim, one half of the Eric B. His father was from Barbados, and his mother is African American. Rakim Mayers was born on October 3, 1988, in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.