Source: online.wsj.com Posted By: Candice P...5489 days ago
At a recent party in a Manhattan recording studio, hip-hop aficionados gathered to preview tracks by an up-and-coming rap star. The rapper himself, however, didn't look the part: Wearing a striped sweatshirt and his blond hair in a muss, Asher Roth posed for photos at every step with a prop he'd been handed -- a slice of Wonder Bread. It was a riff on his album title, "Asleep in the Bread Aisle," and a winking reference to the fact that he's a white artist in a genre that's predominately African....