- ARTiST: Asher Roth
- ALBUM: Asleep In The Bread Aisle
- BiTRATE: 189kbps avg
- QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
- LABEL: Universal
- GENRE: Hip-Hop
- SiZE: 68.02 megs
- PLAYTiME: 0h 47min 31sec total
- RiP DATE: 2009-04-17
- STORE DATE: 2009-04-17
- Track List:
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- 01. Lark On My Go-Kart 2:54
- 02. Blunt Cruisin' 3:36
- 03. I Love College 4:01
- 04. La Di Da 3:47
- 05. Be By Myself (Feat. Cee-Lo) 4:22
- 06. She Don't Wanna Man 3:36
- 07. Sour Patch Kids 4:29
- 08. As I Em (Feat. Chester French) 4:19
- 09. Lion's Roar (Feat. New Kingdom 4:12
- & Busta Rhymes
- 10. Bad Day (Feat. Jazze Pha) 3:37
- 11. His Dream 4:35
- 12. Fallin' 4:03
- Release Notes:
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- Three decades after hip-hop first cracked the Top 40, white MCs remain, first
- and foremost, a joke: fodder for sketch-comedy routines, YouTube parodies and
- reality TV. Eminem is the exception that proves the rule, and he had to create
- an outsize tragicomic persona ù the trailer-trash bane of Middle America ù to
- justify his existence. In a culture saturated by hip-hop, shouldn't anyone be
- able to spit rhymes without shame, apology or having to crack jokes about his
- Star Wars action-figure collection?
- Enter Asher Roth, a gangly redhead from the Philadelphia suburbs. Roth's tight,
- witty debut lives up to the Internet hype that has swirled around him for
- months. In the thudding "Lark on My Go-Kart," Roth calls himself a "dork" and
- says he has "hair like a troll doll." But he keeps the nerd-boy self-deprecation
- to a minimum and acts, you know, like a rapper: boasting nimbly (and often
- hilariously) about getting girls ("Lion's Roar") and getting high ("Blunt
- Cruisin'") over chipper beats by newcomer Oren Yoel. Roth's timbre and cadence
- will remind listeners of Eminem, a subject he addresses head-on in "As I Em."
- But he is his own man ù a blithe braggart, untroubled by the need to keep it
- real. And that white rapper's albatross? He dismisses it with a couplet: "My
- friends said, 'Homey, you know that you're white, dude'/I said, 'What, for real?
- It's all good.'"
