Asher Roth – Be By Myself (Video)

Controversial comments or not (you really don’t wanna know how I feel about the whole thing), I know there’s a fanbase that visits this site, so enjoy the latest video from Mr. Roth. SHAKE UPDATE: OnSMASH’d so the non-American dopeboyz can check it out.

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~ by Meka on April 30, 2009.

Hip Hop, Video

65 Responses to “Asher Roth – Be By Myself (Video)”

  1. i think your the only fan of this dude. lol. jk.

  2. Fucking sick video!

  3. dope

  4. It is what it is…he may not be that good, but its a lot worse music in rotation. (Is that what Hip Hop has come to after 30 years?)

  5. Meka I never did hear either of you address the situation at all. Come on man what are your thoughts.

    This is my song and video is dope

  6. hey Meka (or shake), did you guys manage to write a review on Asher Roth’s album? I know you guys did a lot of hyping with stuff like “I’m tellin you, the album is hot, 4/20 campaign” but I wonder if you guys wrote an objective review with evidence that it’s hot. I mean, I cannot disagree with the plethora of reviews out there saying this album isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The pitchfork and the hiphopdx reviews are on point, for example.

  7. The only reason Imus got fired cause was because he had a position to get fired from – unlike Asher. Asher is just a rapper so the people crying about it now are just the people who don’t support him. Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

  8. Freedom of speech is a legal concept and although it might save you from being imprisoned or punished (at times), it doesn’t save you from coming off as intolerant and offensive in the public’s eye. Even though I think people overreacted and he was just joking and I’ve made more offensive jokes in the past, I know better than to make those jokes public, though because I know people out there don’t share the same sense of humor. Asher Roth as a rapper is not big enough to NOT bite his tongue…hence why the “tweets” were deleted.

  9. You know my thoughts: Asher is corny. Rutgers Girls BBall team IS a bunch of nappy headed-ho’s! owwww

  10. The video is dope but did anybody else see a kind of “money-shot” undertone with the splashin chicks in the face wit white paint or am I just a super-perv.Lol haha

  11. in canada
    can’t watch dumbass mtv video

    whaaack

  12. lmao @ anyone ever referring to a pitchfork review. come on everyone should know by now that site is garbage

  13. Can’t watch the video… whyyy.. whyyyyy

    What will happened if they let the people from other coutry watch the videos..л

  14. love it.
    phil, check rap radar, they got the vid from onsmash and I was able to view it.

  15. given the fact he may of said some dumb things, dude can actually rap a whole lot better than some rappers

  16. i fucks with roth, but more with cee-lo, thats my dude.

  17. Ash never told anyone he was the second coming. Dude is just rappin on the mic’. Quit hating, hater. Yes, you.
    Pretty dope video and all around good track.

  18. i’d also like to know your fellas thoughts on that situation as well.

    i personally could careless what he said because if it was a black dude that said it no one would care, but the fact that he’s white then it becomes an issue.

    dudes music isn’t that great. we all know that, but he’s got…what 6months (if that) before we forget who he is. let him get his, so we can stop talking about him.

    *oh, off topic. why didn’t you post that B.E.P. boom boom remix with Gucci Mane???

  19. ASHER HE’Z A JOKE DUDE CAN’T RAP.

    syke. motherfucker gets ill.

  20. First off, I don’t see why people got mad at Imus. Those girls(most of them) did have nappy hair, AND i bet a few of them weren’t the most lady-like. Secondly, Asher was clearly making fun of the whole situation, which, by the way, happened like a year ago, so i don’t see any reason to get so upset. I think people have forgotten what real racism is (i.e. half the old white folks at those tea-parties 2 weeks ago).

    Video is way better than the song btw.

    Angry comments start…Now!

  21. “if it was a black dude that said it no one would care, but the fact that he’s white then it becomes an issue.”

    Agreed 100%

  22. man who the fuck really cares. I chill with nappy headed hoes all the time.

  23. Ash Roth has ill music. forget anyone who is toooo sensitive to realize that he was mocking Imus. Who gives a shit? I don’t Im rich.

    I know nappy headed hoes of all nationalities

  24. This video is seriously dope

  25. Thanks for the Onsmash video

  26. Dope Song, Dope video w/ Dope effects lol

  27. thanks peekay
    dope

    stop hate

  28. eh

  29. FUCKIN CRACKA!!! FUCK HIM AND HIS CORNY RAPS.

    Who does he think he is calling our women nappy headed hoes, white women are hoes and burn and peel off in the sun HAHAHAHA

  30. I think duk’e comments were takin out of context a lil bit…esp since Pitchfork were the oens to post the said comments, and they already been very haterish on Asher and his album…gettign past the crappy way it was said/came out…I agree with what he was “trying” to say.

  31. some sensitive ass nappy headed hoes out there. shit is pretty pathetic. I don’t even like asher roths dumbass.

  32. me personally bein black i knoe we joke about some real rascist shit but when a white person says somethin we go crazy its just like wit the word nigga only black people can supposedly say it but when we do that we make it rascist i think people just need to lighten up man it was just a joke i woulda laughed

  33. ^ oh so its ok for white people to say nigga now? lol

    read some history, trans atlantic slave trade, civil rights, anything please.. these crackas today do not deserve a pass to say nigga or anything like that.

  34. wtf is with the hate? the dude put out a dope fucking mixtape, and a weak album…. UMMMMMMMM your fucking favorite rapper prob has done the same fucking thing over and over

  35. these crackas today do not deserve a pass to say nigga or anything like that. -yeaaahh

    But it’s fine for you to say “crackas?”

  36. ^ After all you done.. I think so.

    Racism = White Supremacy//White Supremacy = Racism
    All white people practice and benefit of white supremacy, most of them practice white racism.

  37. dude above me is so ignorant he probably doesn’t even know what racism is. clearly doesn’t know anything about forgiveness/not blaming the generations that have nothing to do with racism either…

    “most” white people are not racist. Unless you count the south…

  38. “After all you done.. I think so.”

    No more talking for you.

  39. blaming the generations that have nothing to do with racism either…

    wait wait, u think white racism is gone today? wow

  40. but u dont understand white priveledge do you..

  41. Yeaaahh you are a bitch…. that dude never traded slaves, nor is he a white supremacist.

  42. But you still dont understand White F***** PRIVILEGE or Institutionalised RACISM. huh.

  43. this video makes me like this song a lil more…..

  44. good track – good video

  45. “Handsome bachLOR awesome rappOR (rapper)”

    From AZ, Blackstar, Nas, Pharoah Monch, Cormega, High & Mighty, Wu Tnag, Binary Star, Roots, Hieroglyphics, Jedi Mind Tricks, Duckdown, etc to

    “Handsome bachLOR awesome rappOR (rapper)”

    Being a fan of someone who is a fag, biter, and nonlyrical = killyourself

    Oh yeah:

    “Handsome bachLOR awesome rappOR (rapper)”

    WOW

    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/garbage-day/asher-roth-college.php

    Go ahead call me a “hater” just remember, “Handsome bachLOR awesome rappOR (rapper)”

    fuck that im listening to Biggie Undeniable in the background you know what that is? hip hop

    Jay Electronica sitting in silence > Asher Roth killing his career during the worst freestyle sessions recording in history

  46. I do understand what white privilege is, and institutionalized racism, but that doesn’t mean Asher, or white people in general, can’t rap. However, from your comments, it seems that you feel racism only applies to white against black. That right there shows your immense ignorance. Racism can be black against white (two terms that are ignorant in and of themselves), as you demonstrated above, saying it is ok to refer to a white person as “cracker” but not for a white person to say the “n” word. That, as far as i can tell, is racism. Don’t hate on Asher for being white, and don’t hate on him for saying something like “nappy headed hoes”. I know the history behind it, everyone does after Imus used it. Asher made a joke…if you can’t laugh about something then you’ll never overcome it. So get over yourself Yeaaahh, because your embarrassing people in general.

    And by the way, did Charles get hate for referencing Imus/nappy headed hoes in “Loser”? Not that i recall, and dude gets hate for EVERYTHING. Don’t get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of CH, HUGE FAN, but if a word/term shouldn’t be used because it’s offensive, then it shouldn’t be used period. Consistency please….

    Either way, I don’t think NHH should even draw the attention it does, because like people said, everyone knows a nappy headed ho…but for real, i’m down with black people getting angry at the use of the “N” word by a white person, but i won’t go into that…check out Wale, “The Kramer”, he covers it beautifully.

  47. what did he do?

  48. Jus cos u wrote out a long speech dont make u or ur system right, but ur white ul Never learn.

  49. ^ idk what happened either, this is the only site i check regularly and im seein nothing was made of it here..i dont fucks with tweeter either.
    and on the racism comments i almost threw up. im white. im from the south. but i dont like being put in the reg categories that people put us in. racism is only a way of people comin down on others feeling better about themselves and thats some elementary shit. i got better things to worry about than what color you appear to be.

  50. and i dont hate asher cos hes white, I dont hate white people, i jus hate the white people like u who deny theres a white systrm set up to help u and not us.. and i hate asher cos hes wack and not hip hop… but if that was the case like 1000s of rappers today il pay no mind, but look at the promotion hes geting n thats only cos hes white, and those jews just want to make more money of hip hop cos they no white suburben dicks like ur self will go n buy his wack album to make more money

  51. what did he do?

    not just the nappy headed hoes comment, why would he apoligise for it and then delete that quickly off twitter? and the statement he made 2 days ago about something about black men and how we spend our money and something about poor black peopl ein africa, its pathetic. he should mind his own business and listen to his music and culture and dont tell us how to run it, fuckin wiggers.

  52. @ Unxpekted;
    er, don’t call him a fag.
    I mean, He may be bisexual. but damn, “fag” is too much.
    I have Gay Teachers, Bi & Gay Friends, and er… um, yeah, fag is real, ignorant. no diss, but yeah.

    as for the song, I think the video looks cool.
    That joint with Busta on it was my favorite though of the album. I honestly thought it was, “eh, one or two songs were dope, rest were weaksauce”

    Im not divulging in this white stuff, I have my own opinion about that.

  53. This video is the best in a while… MR ROTH is kinda dope.

  54. A video with a white guy with pants hugging his nuts, and computer graphics mixed with derogatory display of african american females is the best video you have seen in a while? WOW

    Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVstHPhaJ6M

    you may not respect the music, but its abstract AND DIFFERENT

  55. I swear on my life my best friend has partied with Asher Roth at a party in phildelphia, he met him through a friend at VT and he heard him freestyle. He was he heard was with a bunch of white dudes and he was rhyming dropping nigger non stop and even laughing about it at one point. Because of that it really ruined it for me, I think he is talentless but really well marketed with good beats and good features. Strip him down and put him in a cypher with a beat box and hes really a nobody, there is underprivledged artists out there who can play instruments, dj, graffiti, breakdance, freestyle, write songs, write poetry, sing, rap in other languages and because of imbalance and a&r slavery antics, a priveledged kid who barely had to work and used the internet as a marketing tool is going from making fun of “niggers” at parties to taking the income from other black artists, I cant respect it.

  56. Ok, can I just put it out there, I’ve been going to Rutgers for the past 3 years, and I’m not trying to say or mean anything by this, but here at Rutgers that statement made by Imus has been a joke here ever since it happened. In fact, I KNOW one of the girls on the women’s team (no not the 1 white girl) and she’s always laughed at it, not taking it seriously at all. So take it for what it’s worth.

  57. none of you have ever even discussed whether or not HE EVEN WRITES HIS OWN SONGS.

    the kid is a douchebag, sold 65k, and thats it.

  58. its official asher lost shake lost for supporting him

  59. wow…haterz and now liars…ash isnt a racist and he writes his own shit. Grow up and get a life. The album is sick and this video is sick. and the dopeboyz know talent because the kid sold 65k with only 93k shipped. that is insane for a new artist. he was #1 at itunes all week. Ross shipped 450k and only sold 150k. and Def Jam bought 100k of them. Asher is nice. Deal with it

  60. The simplicity of his lyrics and his choice of words makes him dope. I don’t care what anyone else has to say. Ahhh..the beauty of opinion.

  61. Video is refreshing, btw. There’s something that makes me nostalgic for a summer day in the mid-to-late ’90s.

  62. Sean Boog>Asher Roth

  63. There’s something that makes me nostalgic for a summer day in the mid-to-late 90s???????????????????????????

    Try… Marco Polo Feat Masta Ace – Nostalgia

    “Handsome bachLOR awesome rappOR (rapper)”

    Support gay terribly nontalented artists support Asher Roth!

  64. You could argue that Asher is privileged and is a bad rapper that only made it cause he’s white/gimmicky/whatever. He’s not the best freestylist in the world but look how many AWFUL rappers make it to #1 just cause they’re black and fit the stereotype of what a famous rapper should be (Soulja Boy, MIMS, Nelly, etc.). So if you’re gonna hate on Asher for making it let it be because you don’t think he’s any good, not cause of his skin color, and blame fans of BAD hip hop (black or white) who make this shit popular.

    PS: I DON’T think Asher is bad, and there’s worse rappers doing way better than him.

  65. Hey man that was a great point, but that is hypocritical. Here is where your confused, you think its about whos number 1 and whos making money, real lyricism and talent ON TV AND RADIO (commercialy) died in the late 90′s. Regardless of who’s black or white or in number 1 shouldnt matter, it should be is he talented or not. And unfortunately if I strip his “expensive” production, fancy features, financial support, and a&r marketing I find nothing. It amazes me how I met emcees who never even broke a single, and made amazing music that would blow stuff like this out the water, why no marketing for real hip hop anymore. It is very hard for a real talented emcee to get the exposure Souljah Boy’s and the Asher Roth’s get. The reason why is these are A&R infants, you hand them a false identity to take, they become a character. Next they dumb down your lyrics and tell you how they want to market. You know what man I cant even talk about it. If you think this dude is nice, I suggest starting to listen to more hip hop from the early to mid 90′s or try checking some posts that are a little different or new to you on this site. You dont have to only click the Eminem, Asher Roth, & Lil Wayne posts click on something random give it a chance. Shake posts alot of dope undergrand give it a chance, you will never look back and realize how big of a joke a character like this guy is.

 

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