The idea of a skinny, red-headed middle-class, white kid rapping about how much
he loves college may sound like a bad comedy sketch, but Asher Roth steadily
established himself as a young hip hop voice for a new demographic. Shaking off
snipes about Vanilla Ice and Eminem, Roth has taken rap music to the white
suburbs, frat houses and rock crowds with self-mocking, sharp-tongued lyrics
that talk more about smoking and WWE wrestling than they do about ghetto life.
Having built a solid reputation through a number of mix-tapes, first single I
Love College quickly became a hard-drink...