DX: So how does that play into your plans for the album?
Asher Roth: It’s gonna be good, honest music. It’s gonna be very true to me. I’ve heard people say “I wake up in the morning and listen to this one song every day” or “When I’m having a bad day, I play this.” That’s what I wanna do with my music. It explains moods. I just want to make livable music.

DX: So it’ll be more conceptual rather than a collection of singles?
Asher Roth: There’s definitely continuity to it. The mixtape was kinda just me rapping over rap beats; this album is very much an album. I’m not just going off and rapping about anything. Regardless of where you come from, you’ll be able to relate to the questions I’m asking myself. Also, the music’s good… I’m not trying to drown it out with some big production and 808s so you hear it and you’re just like “Oh, Asher’s got some hot beats.” It’s very lyric driven and very concept driven. It’ll be an honest record… it’s important when you come out that you come honest because it’s gonna be hard to be hard to go back. You’ll either be living a lie for the rest of your life or working to dig yourself out of that hole.