Yall I heard this new kewl rap group called Asher Rother, but then found out it is actually just 1 white dude.
In his hit song, he raps about ‘college being awesome.’ I am not sure how many people this song will appeal to, since a lot of people don’t even have a typical ‘college experience’ these days, but I am not sure if that is even important.
This song might also be some sort of education campaign to get people-who-weren’t-gonna-go-2-college 2 go 2 college, convincing them that it is a ‘chill ass time’ where u can ’smoke weed’, ‘fuck hot chicks’, and ‘do whatever the fuck u want.’ Sort of makes me want to go to a mainstream state school instead of design school in the city. Not even sure what this song was talking about except from that movie ‘The Animal Collective House’ starring Jim Belushi [via According 2 Jim].
Recently, I saw that white rapper Eminem is ‘back’ with a ‘kewl new song.’ In the song/music video, he takes on zany meme current events including SARAH PALIN and JESSICA SIMPSON and Lindsay Lohan being a lesbian.
We’ve grown up a lot since Eminem was ‘big.’ Feel like tweens listened to him as a voice that ‘critiqued popular culture.’ This song feels weird now that it is ‘the celeb gossip blog era.’ Feels pretty ‘ghey’ that people ‘like Eminem’ and ‘think he is a gifted rapper.’ Makes me feel like I don’t know anything about rap.’ Sort of wish that Eminem would just ’spit out rhymes’ that were more directly hateful, instead of just making sillie statements that tweens would find funnie and mildly controversial.
I feel like the same person who would like the music in an Eminem track would also like the All American Rejects Song “Gives You Hell.” s000 zany
Remember when 8 mile came out, and people were like ‘This is the best movie of all time.’ Wonder if Kanye West is ‘the Black Eminem.’ Wonder what we really want from rappers/what they want from fans when it comes to image. Feel comfortable with Puff Daddy/Pdiddy because I ‘think he knows he is ridiculous.’ I think 50Cent knows he ‘is dumb’ and ‘was shot a bunch of times’, so he is probably just happy to mumble over club beats. Feel like ‘hiphop’ stars who use auto-tune in a self-aware manner ‘also seem chill.’ Makes me feel sad to see rappers in the modern era where they have to do stuff like ‘make viral videos’ and ‘participate on the internet.’ Not sure if all of them really ‘have what it takes’ to reach white audiences.
I guess that’s why Asher Roth is important 2 music / rcrd lbls / the future of hiphop.
Not sure how I feel about white rappers.
Think we don’t need them, since most white people haven’t gone through an authentic struggle. And if they did ’struggle’ it was probably in a gross white trash kind of way that we could probably ‘make fun of’ very easily.
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damn, eminem fell off
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yeah man, rappers using the internet. so awkward to visualize
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//////////Reply by thatrandguy
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 am
@lindsay,
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//////////Reply by thatrandguy
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 am
This is what a computer sees when ‘rappers’ use wikipedia.
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i dont believe no one who made this favicon went to design school. yipes
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I long thought that the I love college was an inspirational meme (via wearing 2 condoms and not date raping girls like a RL frat bro)
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Eminem stuck in 2k3.5?
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haha, you are true about white rappers. if there wasnt slavery hip hop wouldnt exist. Some people symbolize hip hop today as the slave songs from the past. How slaveowners would keep the slaves ignorant because literacy is freedom. We drink and do drugs to make ourselves happy because we are all discontent with our lives. Rappers who idolize this kind of behavior are indeed slaves themselves to “the man.” Real old school hip hop was more positive and made us stronger people. There are still few rappers who are positive in their rap but aren’t popular due to what the mainstream audience likes.
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//////////Reply by Trying2bLykeJesus
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
@Faisal, haha have u read Hegel’s master+slave dialectic? s00000 zany!! <3u German romanticbros!
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
@Trying2bLykeJesus,
ugh, hegel
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//////////Reply by ICHy
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@anon, vom
//////////Reply by t.y?
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
@Faisal,
just, fuck you.
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Tryin to figure out who that guy’s goofy jewface reminded me of, then it struck me like a lightning blot: he resembles a young donald trump, sideways-swirl bangs and all.
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//////////Reply by girltalk
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
@dax jax, hahah omg, your so right, he’s a much hotter, altbro version of the trump. I love him.
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noone ever mentions the good white rappers. er, nevermind DELETE DELETE
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haha white people rapping is like black ppl reading HRO!!
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bravo.
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almost sounds like a second rate sublime beat line
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//////////Reply by Stonerbro
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@bro, <33333 sublime [via marijuana]
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am
@Stonerbro, think badfish: a tribute to sublime is gonna be big in 2k10 (via toad’s place)
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alt broad in a sea of main streamers at approx 2:41.
this vid makes me wish i had black/blipster friends ;_;
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I think I worked with Roth at Jamba Juice. We used to mix Strawberry Surfriders and Vodka and not wear the company approved footwear together.
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//////////Reply by natalee hologram
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@thatrandguy, <3 slacker corporate employees! u shd turn that in 2 a screenplay / vehicle 4 the almost famous or adventureland bros, but set it in a more authentic time period (1840s are +++hott in Hwood rt now)
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carles, will you go to theProm with me on Satrday?
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//////////Reply by carles
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
@indianwolves,
no
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Asher Roth is coming to my college this May, where he will perform “I Love College”, and the entire student body will be united in a meta mindfuck college love fest.
So authentic.
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carles,
changed my mind. you’re not really ‘that great’ at commenting on race/gender/etc so i think you should go back to headbands and music.
thanks.
annie
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whiteys should stay off the mic and stick to things they’re good at like exploiting black rappers
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@michael cera, oh come on… I saw a show a show the other night with two white rappers from somewhere on the east coast (descriptive right?) and there is a definite market for white rap made for white people. Reminded me of ["feel good" rapper/group from the 90's]. Nice, comfortable, watered down…. you know… the rap white people like.
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I wonder if you know that Asher’s new album dropped today. It is dope by the way. I think you need to read up on your stuff, though, there is a difference between online viral video and a music video.
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cant believe anyone thinks this guy is good
at least eminem was at one point a v talented rapper
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
@anon, This actually was not as bad as I was expecting…. but then I can’t get through the first 15 seconds of nearly anything song/video that carles posts.
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what about tests and papers? i must have went to a different skool
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@wolvesarepeopletoo, someone will always have papers as long as you bring the smoke. drug tests are really not that hard to pass… just drink some water/pbr.
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asher roth sucks. my best friend has been trying to put me onto him and i’m just like, dude is trying too hard to be alt.
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Holy shit carles, holy, shit. My mother’s fiancee’s son(my future step brother, h8 parents that divorced ruining my tween-hood) was talking with some other tween on the phone about how ‘funnie’ and ‘c00l’ the new Eminem vid was. I reckon they don’t get half of the references but the point is, HIS FUCKING MYSPACE SONG IS “GIVE YOU HELL” BY THE REJECTS, R U TAPPIN MY WIRES OR SOMETHIN BRO WTF
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wish that song came out while i was in the dorms so coulda made it my theme song and get laid a lot [via authentic acoustic cover]
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i hate this ass/rother music so bad!
it makes me want to stab myself in the throat with a pair of scissors.
need a breakthrough of good music. something like…
SLAYER!
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h8 asher roth so much, see dbags like him every where at my state school. <3 u carles, nice post.
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//////////Reply by H8rbro
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
@h8terbro, ?…
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Short Version: Eminem is a fat cokehead who might as well be making fun of Hootie and the Blowfish. Asher Roth barely counts as a rapper.
Also, as a white who often raps, I think that the real issue here is that neither of these guys are remotely “good” [via: having something to say/an interesting flow/lines that offer insight or at least wit/storytelling chops]. However, they are authentic: Asher is really that empty and Eminem really is that irrelevant. I mean, do people on the internet even think about Jessica Simpson? Whenever I see information about a celebrity who isn’t alt approved, I feel like I’m reading the wrong internet.
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//////////Reply by natalee hologram
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@Sam, think u need 2 rhyme more? or is this ‘experimental’ rap?
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//////////Reply by Sam
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@natalee hologram,
I time out my rhyme shit like vitamin capsules
minute bits of violence, sign twists, and vocab tools
cold lessons like the first day of school
can’t claim cool
pickin’ through the meme pool like a grave ghoul
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//////////Reply by natalee hologram
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@Sam, !
//////////Reply by ohnouditnt
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@Sam, Em was FIRST. May be getting old / irrelevant now but got to give him cred for earlier stuff. AR pffft.
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<33 Kollege <33
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kill me b4 finals (;_;)
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//////////Reply by Betty J. Meggers
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@Vexster, lol, white ppl can’t rhyme.
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Does anyone else want to kill Asher Roth or is it just me?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@Jonathan, That’s such a strong word especially when scott stapp still walks the streets with impunity.
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//////////Reply by Jonathan
//////////Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 am
@anony,
I really don’t mind that Asher Roth is a shit artist if that is what you’re getting at.
Why I want to kill him is because of his shit song. He is branding college with debauchery, which, I must admit, sometimes is called for. As a poor college student, I fucking hate douches that get a free ride from their parents so they don’t care what they are doing in their schooling. This ass is setting a precedent that acknowledges this fact
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pass out at three and get up at ten? what a pussy.
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eminem just turned into the genre movie spoof franchise without the wayansbros. eminem just turned into an old goofball without royce and proof. his daughter’s probably old enough to fuck pete wentz, by now. he’s gotta hang it up.
asher’s like that guy in the blunt circuit who thinks their own pro-legalization stance an exclusive belief. you know?
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I admit Asher may not be the most talented, but Dj Drama produced his first mixtape, so somebody must think he has some talent.
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i wonder if carles thinks about what he is saying before he types?…..”feel ghey”? really? you really dont know anything about rap (even though kanye is awesome), just stick to your “alt” tunes that are should i dare say it, or will you hro dicksuckers get upset?….well they are the same…i’m not too sure that many “alts” like the a.c…..i could have sworn you were going to think abt what you write….i guess that previous post you made was bullshit….**and no im not some 35 y-o loser who lives in his mothers basement, kepp writing carles just think before you post**
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No mention of carleses bitting little jab at the end?
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FUCK ASHER ROTH HE IS THE NEW JONAS BROTHER HE LOOKS LIKE A RICH WHITE BOY FAGGG DAT HIS DADDY PROB OWNS HIS RECORD LABEL PIECE OF SHIT..
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Asher Roth lyrics aren’t half bad, but he is horrible. Eminem wanna be. He’ll never be Eminem. The closes he will ever get to being like Eminem is one ball of Eminem’s nut sack.
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Ok, first off, where do you have the right to say “white” people don’t go thru any real struggle. That’s an ignorant ass statment. I mean I’m surefor the most part most of them have a pretty ok life, but is there is a kid that’s been thru a lot of shit, and he finds hip hop, and it embraces him, then let him be. Hell, eminem is great. Yea he uses a lot of silly and dumb stuff to tlk about, but you can’t deny the mans skill. Just listen to the marshall mathers or slim shady lp. He kicks some sick shit! I mean, at least he’s not rapping about money and cars and girls in every song. And asher is doing the same. he’s being different. How can you dis someone like that, when we have rappers like soulja boy and gucci man who are realy terrible?! Marco polo? Her booty got swag? Gucci bandana? Come on, there killing hip hop. Do you realize ever actually talented rapper respects em? Nas, kanye, jadakiss, luda… the ist goes on. Hell, tupacs mom came to eminem to produce on of his post-death cds! He’s that legit! If someone wants to rap and they have skill, let them flow. Isn’t that what our ancestors fought for, equal rights for all? But now we want to be selfish about who we support rapping, when actually rappers love and respect this man? Comeon
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Oh, and to the guy above my other one, your fuckin retarded. If you actually did some research, you’d see asher hates being compared to em! He’s white, ok we get it, but and white guy is going to be compared to eminem. Maybe he’s just a white kid who wants to rap. Duh! There subject mattter isn’t even the same! Em tlks about his daughter and kim and shit. Asher tlks about college…. not the same thing.and to the dumbass who “hates ppl who get a free ride with daddys money”, maybe he’s just rapping! Like I go to a small private college in south carolina, and I’ve had penty night were I’ve passed out at 3 (most of the time later then that) and yet I still have good grades. Y’all need to stop judging someone who you know nothing about! Get off his ass. He didn’t get big cause of his “rich white record label owning dad” but cause he made a song about college that a lot of colege kids could relate to and then they heard other shit by him and were like “damn… this dude can flow” al the hatin on this page is ridiculous!
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this guy doesnt know the first thing about rap… hes just a straight hater.. go write a blog worth reading
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