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Love it. Asher Roth is awesome.

On another note MC Rut on the Radio 1 playlist. EPIC WIN!

"I can get pizza a dollar a slice".

Oh my days, I nearly wet myself! I hope he's being ironic with that brag...

The 'Lark' beat has got bounce and he does a good job on top of it, but I'm underwhelmed by the other 2 things I've heard :/

On the plus, I like the fact he doesn't dress/act like a gang-banger/pimp/dealer; and even tho' the lyrics are deep as a puddle, at least it aint more 'money, rims and hos....'money, rims and hos...money, rims and hos'....

God I hate this guy. It's so obviously manufactured and being marketed directly at American college jocks. He's clearly got huge corporate backing behind him.

The future of rap music? Come on! Lyrics about getting drunk at parties and getting off in cars?

This is going to go mainstream in a big way this summer and I don't think it needs the support of shows like this to do it. Can't believe the show has bought into this.

Heh, but there's still hope!

On the US West Coast, there's a huge uprising of heads warping hip-hop into something fresh, at least sonically.

Have a listen to the Glitch Mob's head-mash electronics on e.g. 'Bubblin In the Cut':



....Lazer Sword's chin-droppingly drastic remix abilities on the joints they have up on their Myspace. Also catch the recut of 'I Gott Grapes'. Guaranteed face-meltage :)



....Mono/Poly's way out synth-centric experiments with head-nod business.



Browse all the above's top friends for more, if you can handle it!

It'll sound seriously weird to the uninitiated, but persevere. This gear may well be what the mainstream vultures pile onto next. Or the next after next.

..whats wrong with money, rims and hos?

'And yeah I like you but not enough to wife you, you say I'm nice, true, and you think I'm the right dude But there's another girl just like you (like who?)'

I really like Asher Roth, and who cares whether there bumping this from Gamma Phi Beta Meta Heata Feta on the East Coast through to Phi Beta Kappa Nappa Dappa on the West. The production is good and his rhymes are good because there so blatant in there intention.

Wheres the keg?

Don't underestimate.

not as good as the other two tracks but still pretty good.

for those who don't like "i love college" for those who are at college/uni so to speak its quite amusing (especially the morning after a rough night, if ever u are in that situation and need a laugh find the track on here or somewhere else)...or atleast i think so.

anyhow is it not refreshing that we have a rap artist (making pretty decent music) who doesn't look like some sort of egyptian pharoah with chains and all that hanging off him? just a thought...

....whats wrong with egyptian pharoahs with chains?

Get-busy-living -, you totally get it. I'm not sure what Kriptick was saying about 'I can get pizza a dollar a slice' being ironic 'cause you can get pizza for a dollar on a US Campus, the whole point of that joint is that its a celebration of that lifestyle, subtlely hinted at in the title 'I Love College' There's no irony there.

Some of the fraternities and sororities in the US are well strange. In the first couple of weeks they have open houses for college kids, where you can go to their parties, hang out or whatever to see if you want to be a part of it. But it works like a social networking system and it costs a lot of money to be considered. So like, if you go for a job and the guy interviewing you was a part of the same fraternity on a different campus, then he will make more of an effort to get you in. Favours for favous that kind of ish. In some of them if you start dating a girl whose part of a sorority house somewhere else on campus, you give her your frat pin. Sort of like a Blue Peter badge. But one that suggests possession.

Anyway, I had this American friend who saw it as a 'career opportunity' but then he dropped out when he heard that even after being accepted he would have to undergo a 'hazing' initiation, which for the men apparently involved the new guy having a grocery bag put on his head while his 'brothers' lined up on either side of him, he walked in a straight line and they would beat the crap out of him, and if he was still standing at the end, he was in.

In the sorority house they used to strip the girls to their underwear, send them over to one of the fraternities with a marker pen and the men would have to draw circles on their bodies where they thought there was too much fat.

I never really understood why people would want to be a part of that.

What's wrong with being punched repeatedly in the face..?

Each to their own :]

There are loads of rappers that don't look like 'Egyptian Pharaohs' There's more to hip hop than what we are fed by mainstream media. Check out labels like Anticon, Strange Famous, Def Jux, Rhymesayers etc...

Yeah, Anticon...Founded by Sole, someone who should have got some of the overkill attention Eminem got smothered with - just listen to the ridiculously complex flow on the masterwork 'Salt On Everything', and that spaced out production rivalling EL-P.

Also, for those who don't know much about the flipside to Hip Hop [Flip-Hop if you will], see:-

Clouddead

Deep Puddle Dynamics

Buck 65

Reaching Quiet

Sage Francis

Restiform Bodies

Would've linked directly again, but hmmm, with some of the very 'salty' language and the possibility of under 15s floating about...

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