http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.25435159&rws=%2Fasher-roth%2Fmusic-videos.rssCall him a middle class suburbanite with an axe to grind. Call him a hip-hop frat boy. Heck, even call him a poseur. Just don't call Asher Roth the next Eminem. Because <i>this</I> white boy bristles at the comparison to hip-hop's reigning white knight. To be fair, Roth does differ from Em in everything from background to approach. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Roth started rhyme battling his buddies for fun in high school. While enrolled in an elementary education program at West Chester University, the enterprising amateur emcee created a MySpace artist page and built up a fanbase of "friends" that soon included Atlanta promoter Scooter Braun. With Braun as his manager, Roth put out the DJ Drama-helmed mixtape <I>The Greenhouse Effect</I>, got signed to SRC/Universal and generated some buzz with the dorm rat-baiting "I Love College," the first single from his 2009 debut <I>Asleep in the Bread Aisle</I>. - Rachel DevittHitmakersen720Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:53:02 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.25435159&rws=%2Fasher-roth%2Fmusic-videos.rss Call him a middle class suburbanite with an axe to grind. Call him a hip-hop frat boy. Heck, even call him a poseur. Just don't call Asher Roth the next Eminem. Because <i>this</I> white boy bristles at the comparison to hip-hop's reigning white knight. To be fair, Roth does differ from Em in everything from background to approach. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Roth started rhyme battling his buddies for fun in high school. While enrolled in an elementary education program at West Chester University, the enterprising amateur emcee created a MySpace artist page and built up a fanbase of "friends" that soon included Atlanta promoter Scooter Braun. With Braun as his manager, Roth put out the DJ Drama-helmed mixtape <I>The Greenhouse Effect</I>, got signed to SRC/Universal and generated some buzz with the dorm rat-baiting "I Love College," the first single from his 2009 debut <I>Asleep in the Bread Aisle</I>. - Rachel Devitt