Asher Roth releases new hit single ‘I’m Okay with Grad School’
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Singer songwriter Asher Roth, best known for his single, I Love College, has taken his newfound success from his debut album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, to new heights. Roth has just finished his follow up (and soon-to-be hit) single, I’m Okay with Grad School, which will be released with his new album,Waking up in a Hospital Ward.
The man who once sang, “I wanna go to college for the rest of my life,” is apparently set on that depressing Van Wilder-esque path.
Roth, a former West Chester University undergrad, released the new hit to coincide with his acceptance to the university’s grad school program.
Roth boasts throughout his new recording that higher education is mad fulfilling. Lyrics include, “I get up at eight and proctor tests, I help kids during office hours, and I’m okay with grad school.”
His nonthreatening, less psychotic, whitey rap has been compared to Eminem, but Roth has said, “Em is dope and all, but after four years of college, I have matured and want to take up a career in elementary school education.”
I Love College was Roth’s first highly acclaimed single aimed toward freshmen in college, but I’m Okay with Grad School is aimed toward a less stupid audience.
“I’ve turned a new leaf. I don’t want to party in fraternities with half naked bitties and the elderly,” said Roth. “My parents aren’t paying to put me through grad school to be an overly white douchetool. I’m here to show people how to have a good time while grading papers and wearing V-neck sweaters.”
The I’m Okay with Grad School music video was taped in the WCU library and focuses on Roth filling paperwork, enjoying thick reads and telling that loud kid on the phone to, “please shush, please shush, silence is appreciated, silence is appreciated, thank you, thank you.”
“When I woke up next to a human-sized turtle mascot with his finger in my shoot is when I decided I needed to clean up my act,” said Roth. “I have TA responsibilities now.”
Roth is currently writing his thesis on white people breaking into an industry where they don’t belong.
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by Brandon Scott Wolf, Phroth Staff Writer/Phollegian Editor
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