Asher Roth
Photo by Hannibal Matthews
Having grown up in not-so-hoodish Morrisville, Pennsylvania, rapping newcomer Asher Roth spent hours and hours of his adolescence searching for the right hip-hop alias, yet somehow, inexplicably, his given name ended up satisfying the street quota. Roth’s debut features cameos from Akon, Pharoahe Monch, the Cool Kids and Devin the Dude, but before you dismiss him as a would-be Jewish Eminem, keep in mind that Roth’s career plan B is to be an elementary school teacher. His mixtape, The Greenhouse Effect, is available online.
