Why is everyone hating on Asher Roth?

I've been listening to Asher Roth's brand new song Why I Love College for a couple of days now and I really don't get all the hate aimed at him. He seems like a really deep dude who has something to say and wants to create timeless music while avoiding human papillomavirus.

Please listen to the following, I don't know how to embed a music track yet, or if I even can on blogspot:

http://hypem.com/#/track/813646/Asher+Roth+-+I+Love+College+NEAR+DARKs+Alpha+Beta+Bleed+Remix+feat+Jane+Bang

I think with this song he is trying to rebel against the hedonistic culture too prevalent in our society. Roth's opening sequence, in which he repeats "I danced my ass off" over a "clubby beat" is a stark juxtaposition to the following sequence, where the clubby beat is traded in for a darker hook where the words do not synch exactly with the music. With this repetition and juxtaposition Roth is ironically demonstrating the futility of a culture driven by such things as "dancing my ass off" "getting fucked up" and "passing out."

His referencing of popular basketball players indicates that he feels pressure to be accepted by minorities, as he is a rapper/MC who is "white" (isn't race really a construct?) I think he includes Allen "The Answer" Iverson to show minorities that he has street cred (since a.i. is the most hood basketball player ever) and Hakeem Olajowan to show that he has a deeper knowledge of basketball, not just a surface "I just checked the scoring leaders to see who I should talk about" mentality.

(Hakeem on the left with his bro, Shaq)

In the song, Roth begins a verse with the line, "I can't tell you what I learned from school / But I can tell you a story or two" indicating his frustration with the state of academia in the United States. Roth really just wishes that he could have gotten into Penn State-Main Campus where he wanted to pursue his dream getting a degree in nursing with a minor in Anthro but didn't get in due to AfAction (another reason he wishes his skin wasn't the color of toilet paper) and instead went to West Chester and got into rap. The admissions process really does suck (I'm still bitter University of Browns.)


Roth's counterpart on the track is Jane Bang, whose verse deals with issues of consent. In the verse Jane Bang adopts an ironic tone, peronifying how a "typical guy" sees girls at "typical party." I liken her highly sexual lyrics to those of Peaches, and group them into the same proto-feminist genre, with Jane Bang leaning more toward the hip hop side and Peaches staying indie but really just women singin about dicks or whatever. I looked up Jane Bang because I thought she "sounded hot" but turns out she's kind of lame. Oh well.

I once heard someone rhetorically ask, "Who wakes up at ten though?" I do. Or earlier. I suspect others do regularly as well. Especially if Conn College is anything to go by.

What do you think? Pro or con Why I Love College?