30 Under 30 All-Star Updates: A$AP Rocky

A$AP Rocky: The 27-year-old Class of 2015 alum is our pick for all-star in the music category. (Photo: Jamel Toppin).

At our Under 30 summit in Philadelphia this fall, Rakim “A$AP Rocky” Mayers was among the last to arrive at our group cover shoot.

“Sorry,” he said with a grin, decked out in a full-length Dior coat. “I’m fashionably late.”

Indeed, nobody in the hip-hop world has been more fashionable of late. The Harlem-born mixtape maven grew up shuttling between homeless shelters, swaggerin...