April 23rd, 2009
Photos: Asher Roth At World Cafe Live
Last night “Philly’s own” Asher Roth bowled over an excited crowd of mostly-females at World Cafe Live, playing close to every song on his iTunes topping, Pitchfork-hated album Sleeping With Loaves Of Other Things That Happen To Be White. DJ Drama opened, and Asher peppered his set with a couple songs the two collaborated on for the Greenhouse Effect mixtape released last summer that served as an appetizer for the full-on media blitz we’re all currently dining on.
Speaking of dining: the oddest part of the show last night was Asher dropping an a Capella rap about the benefits of eating organic produce—a long, word-twisting condemnation of the chemicals in the everyday foods we consume—all the while two jealous mooks in the back by the soundboard kept yelling “Fuck you!”—then to one another—”What the fuck is he talking about?”
What he was talking about mattered little. The crowd was BUYING IT regardless; hopping up and down when commanded, finishing the ends of couplets when Asher held his microphone to the crowd. During his song “She Don’t Want A Man” the stage was flooded with college girls in halter tops, all thrusting their asses toward Asher, who at times looked genuinely frightened by the hoard on stage.
Cue guys in back, “He don’t want him to feel he’s got a tiny pecker!”
More pics below. (One and two of DJ Drama and Chio from Wired 96.5 respectively. Click twice for full size. All photos by Brian McManus.
Now, just cuz, here’s the song he performed off the mixtape. “CANNON!!!” “CANNON”
