Asher Roth releases statement
As of late, statements I’ve made have been stirring up much controversy and speculation. It is in my best interest that I feel I should address these instances personally and specifically. Truth: I am 23 year old imperfect human being who’s world is drastically changing around him. Facebook is no longer for just me and my friends. Twitter is no longer solely for the watchful eye of my parents. A new responsibility and voice has been placed upon me and is being heard well beyond my immediate peers. I’ve been receiving a crash course on perspectives and a very real sensitivity that exists and is an essential part of our world. With that, I’d like to sincerely apologize for any words that have been misinterpreted and may have offended any man, woman or child.
The twitter situation was an immature attempt to poke fun at an infamously moronic joke. In doing so, I unconsciously stooped to the level of its originator, making it just as bad, if not worse. Pathetic. Lesson learned - nothing good can come from repeating hateful words, regardless of your intentions. Leaving no context in what was being said and being presented through text (no facial or vocal inflection) the sarcasm of the joke (or lack there of) was not properly perceived and left it purely in bad taste. I immediately apologized for my immaturity but the apologies and original post were deleted by my team in an effort to prevent more people from being offended. Unfortunately, the deletion of these statements led several people to believe that my apology was insincere, which is why I have made the decision to release this statement.
The latest quote on giving back was in response to a question about rappers and their money posed to me by the interviewer. With the question and entire vibe of the conversation not being present in the article, when my statement came out in print it appeared as if I was taking black rappers to task randomly. Not the case. Although I do feel strongly about giving back when we are in a position of power and prosperity, it is not my place to talk about what others should do with their lives. Lesson learned: talk about what you know. You can call them mistakes, I call them life lessons. It is my duty as a human being to choose my words carefully, for I am a kind soul who puts a lot of stock in the progess of humans. I am a work in progress, as we all are and I will take this opportunity to learn and grow. Its bigger than an apology, its an understanding.
Moving forward, I hope we can all take some perspective and guidance from the dialogue that has emerged from these situations. I know I already have and will continue to do so.
Onward and upward
With love,
Asher Roth
Honestly the thing never even bothered me. I think people take stuff too seriously these days, but everybody doesn’t have the same sense of humor. Anyway its good to see he finally came out and addressed it. Read more
0
comments
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wale covers Best I Ever Had
The Attention Deficit Tour : WALE with UCB - Best I Ever Had from rkwehtoe on Vimeo.
This is what I like to see.
Read more
0
comments
Monday, April 27, 2009
Joe Budden TV : DRAKE TV
"I loved you on Degrassi!"
Read more
0
comments
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Madden NFL 10 Cover
Who does EA think they're foolin? You put two athletes on the Madden curse to try to offset it or something...Yeah right. You can't get rid of the curse. It just comes back bigger and more worse. Polamalu and Fitzgerald...make sure you look both ways before crossing the street this season.
Read more
Kanye West - Amazing (Video)
0
comments
Thursday, April 23, 2009
All the Hoes Jockin
ALL THE HOES JOCKIN from don cannon on Vimeo.
Eminem interview with Angela Yee
I was up waitin for this...then I started watchin Degrassi. Waitin on that 3AM to drop. Here's a play-by-play of the interview.
Read more
Respects T.I., Wayne, etc. Says that he would work with Wayne (just hasn’t had the time). Dre did the entire album (with the help of Em on We Made You; Em did one other). He picked beats that challenged him (rhythm wise). Every flow is different over unique beats. 3AM (and the album) is on a different vibe of the single. He’s censoring himself less this time around. States that he’s still Eminem (but Slim Shady is back). Relapse 2 will be out at the end of the year (if not finished, it’s extremely close to being done). 50 & Dre are the only guests on Relapse.Download: PT 1. | PT 2. | PT. 3 | PT. 4 | Whole damn shabang-bang
Nyle - Let The Beat Build
0
comments
Friday, April 17, 2009
Drake x Jay-Z? + Angie Martinez interview
Fuze the MC - Say It Aint So
Unsigned guy. Don't know much about him except that my inbox is filled with his stuff. I respect his hustle. Alright track too.
Read more
0
comments
Monday, April 13, 2009
Fat Joe explains why he dissed 50 Cent
Fat Joe Explains ATTACKIN' 50 Cent on MAFIA MUSIC REMIX from HipHopStan.Com on Vimeo.
He could’ve just said “because i havent been relevant since the last time 50 mentioned me”
Cassie - Must Be Love (rmx) f. N.O.R.E. & Diddy
Fabolous - Your Baby f. Ryan Leslie [Snippet]
Snippet of the song.
Studio session after the jump.
Via 2dopeboyz.
Read more
Late Passes.
Late pass on some stuff while I been gone.
Read more
Asher Roth feat. Busta Rhymes- Lion's Roar
Read more
0
comments
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Matt McGhee - DMV Girls (Brooklyn Girls Remix)
this song is by ME!
go to my YouTube Channel...SUBSCRIBE, RATE, FAVORITE, ENJOY!
my debut mixtape "In Case You Didn't Know..." (Hosted By LB3 Rob Da Boy Wonder) drops July 24, 2009! Read more
0
comments
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Charles Hamilton "At Most I'm Just..." (TWITTER IS THE BEST THING SINCE SHOESTRINGS!)
the reason why i love twitter so much is because you can have a conversation with stars. Charles Hamilton is one of the stars i follow on Twitter. and he posted the link to this mixtape in one of his tweets (tweet (n) - a post on twitter that lets your followers know what you are doing at the time you post it.) i've noticed that a lot of CH's mixtapes have certain themes
"Every Charles Hamiton Ex-Girlfriend's Worst Nightmare" (808's & Heartbreak Samples)
"Well Isn't This Awkward..." (R&B Samples)
and "At Most I'm Just..." has a lot of Rock samples (i'm guessing they're from Incubus because he likes them...but i don't know)
Tracklist after the jump.
Charles Hamilton "At Most I'm Just..."
Tracklist:
01 The Incubator
02 Friendly Reminder
03 I Really Fuckin Do Tho
04 Nascar
05 Parent Teacher Night
06 Hall Pass
07 Eddie Lee
08 Cosmic Hop Scotch
09 Sunstorm
10 Sci-Fi Channel
11 The Warmth, Hamiltonized
12 Rivers in Reverse
13 Brandon & Jimi Talk Fire
follow me on Twitter
-Matt McGhee
Charles Hamilton "At Most I'm Just..."
Tracklist:
01 The Incubator
02 Friendly Reminder
03 I Really Fuckin Do Tho
04 Nascar
05 Parent Teacher Night
06 Hall Pass
07 Eddie Lee
08 Cosmic Hop Scotch
09 Sunstorm
10 Sci-Fi Channel
11 The Warmth, Hamiltonized
12 Rivers in Reverse
13 Brandon & Jimi Talk Fire
follow me on Twitter
-Matt McGhee
0
comments
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Charles Hamiton..."Beat Jacker"
now i am a HUGE CH fan. the way he makes music is incredible to me and his samples are always amazing. but recently...some guy i've never heard of (Black Spade?) is saying Charles Hamilton stole the beat for "Shinin'" which is on "The Pink Lavalamp"
but anyway...Black Spade says Charles took the beat either from a beat tape or straight off his MySpace page. i don't know what to believe because i don't know if Spade stole it from CH or if CH stole it from Spade. but nonetheless...the beat/song is dope! so i frankly do NOT care. but for people who do care...here's the e-mail from Spade where he talks about this "jacking"
"Yo! So this is the beat Charles Hamilton CLAIMS he created. In short, when I was in Austin to perform and check out SxSW, I caught his set. He performed one of his tracks, "Shinin'", which I thought was dope. However, come to find out the instrumental that he used for that track is a beat I produced a while back. After he was done performing, I let him know that I produced the beat and asked him where he got it from. In the back of my mind I know that the only place he really could have gotten it from was off my MySpace page. When I told him I produced the track and liked his lyrics, he still continued to say that HE produced the track with some dude....FALSE. He said he cleared the sample and that he is the one singing 'Shinin' in the background and also that his homeboy was playing the keys on the track.
Now mind you, the background 'Shinin' vocals that he claims he laid were not laid in the studio at all. I know this because I sampled them by singing directly into the MPC.
Basically, the Frankie Beverly & Maze sample at the beginning is from when I put the beat up on MySpace. The whole point of putting that part in the track was to show that I was about to produce, from that part, my own version of the sample. So, if you don't hear the Frankie Beverly & Maze sample in the MP3 I am sending you, that is why."
here's Black Spade's "Shinin'"
NOW here's Charles Hamilton's "Shinin'"
-Matt McGhee Read more
N.A.S.A. "Gifted" (feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li)
tell me this song ain't tough...
i dare you!
N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and they have somewhat of a compilation album called "The Spirit Of Apollo"
they're doing something really really dope and i commend that.
-Matt McGhee Read more
Asher Roth f. Beanie Siegel - Perfectionist
Word is Shake over at 2dopeboyz was forced to tag it otherwise he wouldn't have been allowed to leak it. Its not that bad.
Shit is hot! Are you doing big things when you got Beans on the feature? I guess...Maybe. 4/20 CAMPAIGN BITCHES
Read more
0
comments
Friday, April 3, 2009
Islanders Don't Play No Games!
I'll be vacationing here sooner than later. Pshh.. I might be one of the people in the video!
Read more
0
comments
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
T-Wayne - He Raps He Sings It's T-Wayne
Just in time for the release of the bromance film I Love You, Man (close enough), T-Wayne, hop's own Beavis & Butthead (Starsky & Hutch, Spongebob & Patrick, Ren & Stimpy. I got a million here folks) drop a track straight outta bizarro world. T-Pain spits hot fire Dylan style while his BFF Wayne gets his Usher Raymond on.
I always wondered what the hell he had that T-shirt for.
Banned Family Guy Scene
Video Provided by DatPiff.com
Any one who knows me knows I adore Family Guy. If you want the key to my heart get something that has to do with it, anyways back on topic, I thought this video was funny just because it exposed some people that needed it.
- Simms Out.
Read more
0
comments
Monday, March 30, 2009
J.Cole - I Get Up
Method Man -ThisIs50 freestyle
Meth comes through G-Unit radio and spits his weed-loving ass off. Can't wait for that Blackout 2.
Method Man Freestyle from Radio Planet on Vimeo.
Read more
Method Man Freestyle from Radio Planet on Vimeo.
Jadakiss feat. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah - Cartel Gathering x Fall Out Boy - America’s Suitehearts (rmx) f. Joe Budden, 88-Keys & Murs
New Balance MT576S BAMBOO RAKE
New Balance is going super hard on the collabs in 09.
Combining the upper of one of New Balance’s favorites, the 576 and the midsole of a cult-classic MT580, the latest franken-sneaker to emerge out of New Balance is the MT576S. The shoe created as a collaborative effort between FRAT and mita sneakers features a number of noteworthy features. A glow-in-the-dark upper features various embroideries on the heel and tongue area as well as a mesh forefoot midsole. Available at mita on April 4th, 2009.Hypebeast.
Russian Girls dive under trains.
So when bungee jumping, skydiving, base jumping, hang gliding, and extreme rock climbing isn't enough, you can always count on stupid people to find other ways to threaten their lives for sport. At least the before mentoned activities have safety procedures. But these dumb-ass russian girls are taking retarded to another level.
Read more
"Training" is what the kids are doing these days. Apparently the rules are...lay flat under a speeding train and try not to die. And you can't do it too early or else the conductor might stop the train. And if you do it too late...well...you lose.
Seriously if this girl were to die there would be a very minimal amount of sympathy. Probably less than the guy who jumped over TWO fences with signs on them that said "DO NOT
JUMP" and got his head taken off by the Batman ride [phillyd].
This is by far one of the funniest videos I've ever seen... The fact that someone would take the time to treat a ticket so harshly.. Exemplifies (look it up if you cannot comprehend) just how crazy this world is.
EDIT: Man, that's nonsense Simss saying. Anybody who know Chi-City knows that that ticket got what it had coming to it.
He did what he had to do to fight for mines and your rights. SHY-SILLY GOT JUSTICE!! CHI-CITY MAYNE!!!!!!
-Tommy Parker.
Read more
AB The Producer "Producer's Credit"
today i went to a DMV MC Showcase. (i went to see my manz Super Nike Nando McFlyy...but he couldnt make it due to lack of transportation.)
but AB The Producer was there. i knew he made beats but i had NO idea he could spit!
he's nice and i'd advise you to download this mixtape ASAP. you will not be disappointed...
DOWNLOAD HERE
-Matt McGhee Read more
0
comments
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are
My new guilty pleasure
So after I finally decided to give Drake a chance. I downloaded the So Far Gone mixtape. Now like most people I wasn't blown away, but I did decide to accept him. Wel...It's not even that he's wack. Its just that when everybody likes something/somebody I always shy away from it. I don't know why its just how I am. But getting back on track. I was bored and thought it would be funny to see Drake in his true medium...Degrassi. So I watched a couple of episodes online. I watched the whole saga where Aubrey's character gets shot and put in a wheelchair. Pretty deep stuff. So anyway...I ended up getting into the show. Everyday this week I've watched it whenever it comes on. Its pretty odd seing as how I used to loathe Degrassi. Why? Because back in the day, everybody was on its dick. But I now officially deem it cool to like Degrassi. Hell I might go buy some episodes on DVD. Tru shit.
Twitter or Facebook?
Myspace is a complete outcast, so I won't even throw that one in there. This "twitter" just came out of no where.. it needs to be addressed. I personally like facebook more, just being honest, but thats probably because I don't understand twitter lol. So is twitter bout to be the next thing the world moves to? I hope not, I'll be like those poor people who still myspace and stay with Facebook. Just lettin you know if you need Simms hit me on facebook, NOT twitter!
Read more
- Simms Out.
T-Pain Golf Cart Accident
http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2009/03/29/21299787.aspx
Read more
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)