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.
