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Share via Email. Search Submit Search. Asher Roth. What was your favorite part about growing up in Bucks County? Do you ever see yourself living in Bucks County again? How did you begin your career in hip-hop? Did you know you always wanted to do it? What are your favorite things to do and places to visit here?

And there's the New York rap trio that the British newspaper the Guardian referenced last month in proclaiming that "rap is about to get its first white Jewish superstar since the Beastie Boys.

Roth has been more frequently compared with Eminem - so much so that he rhymes about it in "As I Em," because "it's impossible rejecting an elephant in the room. In his songs, Roth goofs around about his reverse minority status. But at times, he said, he has been self-conscious about being a fair-skinned interloper: "There have been points where I was like, What am I doing here?

Am I good enough for this? But you just got to go with it. Roth has been rapping for more than half of his life - he started when he was The son of a design-firm executive and a yoga teacher, Roth said, "My entire childhood was based around Little League baseball and swimming at the pool" - and, hip-hop. He said he spent his childhood studying "lyrical, substance-driven" rappers like Tariq Trotter of the Roots, Common, the Notorious B.

His father, David, the subject of his son's affectionately sentimental "His Dream," said his main contribution to the early years his son spent rapping around the house was "telling him to shut up. It's that element of freedom that you get from music. As an emcee who is unabashed about his suburban origins, Roth's cred might seem more shopping-mall than street.

And he would be in danger of being laughed off in a world where authentic urban experience has long been used to market hip-hop to the white teenage masses, if he weren't in possession of one key quality: talent.