College has an important abode in popular music . . . and it's not just considering endless of freshman accept been illegally downloading files on the PCs in the university library . Back in the '80s , it spawned a brand of music accepted as college rock , which somewhen morphed into what is accepted today as indie rock .
Again , way back in the '80s , what was again known as academy bedrock ran head on into hip - hop , acknowledgment to a leash white boys called the Beastie Boys . These one - time punks started rapping and sampling AC/DC and in the process they introduced college radio DJs to hip - hop and acts such as LL Cool J , Run DMC , and Public Enemy .
More than two decades after , alternative white boy is celebrating the joys of academy in a laid - aback little hip - hop jam alleged "I Love College . " His name is Asher Roth .