Already signed to an offshoot of Loud and dropping his first mixtape today with help from Don Cannon and DJ Drama, 21-year-old Asher Roth is staking out a claim as an MC to watch. The suburban-Philly rapper brings a laid back flexible rhyme style that has Drama calling him “The White Jay-Z.”

The mixtape finds Asher appropriating beats previously rocked by Common, Kanye, The Cool Kids and Andre 3000, plus introspective single “The Lounge” and a guest spot from John Mayer of all people. Asher’s style and skin color will doubtless earn quite a few Eminem comparisons, but that aside, this mixtape definitely shows his debut will be something to watch for.

Check it out for yourself here.

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