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Why Do People Hate Asher Roth?

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What's up world? It's been a little while I know, but I haven't had much to discuss. But I must say after reading some comments about up and coming rapper Asher Roth, I thought i'd address my views on the young fella. I read a comment on Yahoo yesterday that said something to the effect that Asher Roth was everything that is wrong with hip hop music. Really? Asher Roth is? Not Soulja Boy, or those Stankey Legg guys? Not the dude that sings, "Do the Ricky Bobby?" What did Asher do to piss people off? He's a good lyricist, a legit artist, and he's not trying to be something he's not. He's a white kid, from the suberbs, and that's who is portraying. Sure, he did say on his twitter, that he was up at Rutgers, chillin with some Nappy Headed hoes, but he clearly was making fun of Imus' comments, and not being racist. It was just a bad joke. People are looking at this man as if he's in Rap simply to make fun of the genre. Why? Because