Asher Roth-Asleep In The Bread Aisle-2009-404

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:



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:



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 the trailer-trash bane of Middle America 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 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.'".