Besides the white guys who sell it and push it, hip hop is black music,” he stated. But when that push extended to Roth’s suburban home, he caught the urge to step to the mic and tell his story. “But it got to the point where they were targeting us, the white people in the ‘burbs. We got brought up on it, but suddenly when a 23-year-old white kid who’s been inspired by Jay-Z starts rapping, it’s a bad thing? C’mon, those [rappers] were talking to us the whole time. It’s interesting to see what this is turning into. I was just this punk kid rapping to the laptop in my sophomore year in college. That’s what hip-hop has turned into.
— Asher Roth: “I’m Classic White” | Hip Hop News > HipHopDX.com
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