Before the world knew him as A$AP Rocky—the fashion-forward, genre-defying rap star—Rakim Mayers was a Harlem kid with a head full of rhymes and a pocketful of dreams. Raised in a world…

Before the world knew him as A$AP Rocky—the fashion-forward, genre-defying rap star—Rakim Mayers was a Harlem kid with a head full of rhymes and a pocketful of dreams. Raised in a world…
In 1983, a 14-year-old in Compton, California with a gift for the written word had an idea. Initially recognized for his storytelling abilities in the fifth grade, O’Shea Jackson took up rapping…