Asleep in the Bread Aisle

Y'all act like you've never seen a white person before. And yet, here we are, a decade removed from The Slim Shady LP and before even selling one record, MC Asher Roth has generated opinions so ingrained one way or the other that for all intents and purposes, his debut album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, might as well be a blank disc. There are those who celebrate the chance that any new artist becomes able to move units, even if he' s being marketed to white, affluent hip-hop buyers seeking to relate to a rapper in a completely non-allegorical sense. And then there are those who've heard "I Love College" and find the use of hip-hop as a vehicle to express leisure class privilege as a bit... troubling, to say the least. Beyond that, "I Love College" is seen as a mutant strain of hipster-rap that completely evolved into frat-rap in the literal sense. And let's face it, you probably haven't heard "frat" used as a word to positively describe a lot of music since Otis Day & the Knights.