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I recently checked my email to find a message from Biz3 Entertainment.  I opened it assuming that it was a simple press release for a project from one of the many quality acts that they represent (Def Jux, Battles, Prefuse 73, etc) but what I read was of an entirely differently nature.  The email referred to terrorism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, bomb threats, and a skinny white kid from Morrisville, Pennsylvania that likes to smoke weed and rap about going to college parties.

Rapper Asher Roth (aka Asher Paul Roth) and his band, who are scheduled to perform tonight on the Carson Daly Show, boarded a flight from Atlanta to LAX airport in Los Angeles.  As  the plane prepared to touch down at LAX, a passenger was reported of making bomb threats and becoming violent.  The frenzied wingnut was eventually subdued by a group of passengers which included Roth and his bandmates.  They restrained him with plastic ties and the plane landed safely in Los Angeles.

This whole scenario only just occurred this morning.  As far as we are aware, Asher and his crew are still planning to appear on Carson Daly’s program tonight but will, most likely, not be at liberty to discuss the specifics of the situation which occurred on Delta Airlines Flight 110.  Roth gave a statement to the FBI and we expect more information with the rappers involvement in restraining the man to be released over time.  Especially, in a case like this that deals with National Security. Read the rest of this entry →