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Ding ding ding.
What does this even sound like in real life
From the Soulja Boy song I linked in another comment, evidently it's just pronounced /æ(ː)/ — so it rhymes with yeah, nah, and baa, when these words are pronounced with the TRAP vowel. What's interesting is that /æ/ (TRAP vowel) is a checked vowel, and I have to wonder if that's what allowed the /s/ to be dropped from ass in the first place: if the vowel already tells you that the next sound must be a consonant, then the consonant itself becomes a bit redundant. The other notable words that get the same treatment are bih and shii, which also have checked vowels. But I'm no AAVE linguist.
Edit: Yeah, in "Crank That", Soulja Boy also very prominently elides the ends of words with free vowels, so I guess the checked vowel thing might've just been me noticing a pattern that wasn't actually there. But who knows, maybe there's internal variation — it's not my dialect, I've never even been to the South where this sort of elision is most widespread.
Guess I'm confused because I see "ahh" and I read it as the a in "far" not as the a in "ass"
As I'm sure most people without context would, but there isn't really a better way to spell it.
Are you from the US?
AAVE and I think southern american dialects in general tend to "erase" last letters of words. I have heard it enough to notice that pattern.