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Street Detail: Suburban Style

NAME: John Brown (and friend)

AGE: 26

OCCUPATION: Hip Hop Artist

LOCATION: Davis, CA

SUNGLASSES: Von Zipper

SHIRT: Kanfi

JEANS: Blue Blood

SNEAKERS: Adidas Super Skate

Vote on whether John Brown is “Stylin” or “Wildin” below.

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Asher Roth: “Rap Is In The Suburbs Now”

Whether or not you relate to his All-American suburbanite persona, it’s been hard to ignore Asher Roth lately. After signing with Steve Rifkind’s SRC Records (home to Akon and Wu-Tang), the white boy from Morrisville, PA made a big splash last month with his Don Cannon and DJ Drama assisted mixtape The Greenhouse Effect.

His voice and punchline-heavy flow might bear some similarity to that of a certain Detroit rapper from 8 Mile, but Roth has managed to establish a unique persona with his recent remakes of Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” and Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys.” We spoke with Asher while he was in Chicago en route to working with The Cool Kids. In this exclusive interview, Asher talks about growing up on Dave Matthews, impressing Jay-Z, and why he’s not worried about his suburban rap rival John Brown.

White Beef: John Brown Vs Asher Roth

We’ve always said the most entertaining thing about hip-hop is beef between grafted-devil MCs. Whether it was 3rd Bass vs Vanilla Ice, El-P vs. Sole, or even the ménage a quatre of Eminem vs. Cage, Everlast, and Evidence, there’s something so gosh darn cute about white on white lyrical feuds. So you can imagine how amped we got the other day when our Facebook buddy John Brown came out against Internet-It-Boy Asher Roth.

See, we all know John Brown is King of Da Burbz. But JB is heated that Roth—who just dropped his Don Cannon/DJ Drama mixtape last week—is rocking some burb-based iconography too. In a statement he sent to HHNLive.com, John said that “this dude and his…sidekick are so obviously a bunch of Stans that watched the White Rapper Show and then completely bit the whole burbs branding and lifestyle that I represented on the show and continue to represent in hip hop… It’s like his team tried to take the branding from John Brown and the sound of Eminem and create a Burb Frankestein.” So who has the upper hand? Read our analysis and vote after the jump.

John Brown Takes It Higher

Last week he took you to the “Keg Party,” but now this veteran of ego trip’s (White) Rapper Show is showing you another side of his Suburban swagger. John Brown (a.k.a. The King Of the Burbs) just sent over this clip of him endorsing High Times‘ “Greetings From California” issue. It features footage of Brown freestyling about Cali bud (”We crush Grape, call it red wine”) with a strange elderly man named Ol’ White Bastard, who seems to also be a publisher at the marijuana-loving mag. Watch the video after the jump.

John Brown Drives Someone To Drink

Peep the world premiere of white rapper John Brown repping his ‘King of the Burbs’ status to the fullest with his new action packed video: “Keg Party.” Mr. Hallelujah Holla Back shows how it’s done—suburban style—best represented by keg stands and houseparties of course. Ghetto Revival to the fullest indeed! More John Brown on his MySpace.