Afroman

Released: December 13, 2004

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

[Chorus]
I'm tha only drunk (uh uh)
Dancin to tha funk (uh uh)
I guess it's up to me (uh uh)
To get this thing crunk
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi

[verse 1]
Eerybody seem up tight, I'm drunk so everythings allright
Got a light? -yeah- right right
Kick back take a hit(take a hit) turn it up bump that shit(bump it)
I'm dancin I'm groovin other people look at me and start movin
Everybody getting comfortable starting throwin up nice and full
Start dancin wild motherf**kers smile next thing you know
They dincin too smoking weed drinking brew callin people up on their
Cellphone east palmdale homeboy its on

[Chorus]
I'm tha only drunk (uh uh)
Dancin to tha funk (uh uh)
I guess it's up to me (uh uh)
To get this thing crunk
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi

[verse 2]
I'm tha only drunk dancin to tha funk I guess it's up te me to
Get this thing crunk get high get drunk go bizarr standin up
Straight is major work drivin home I really hope it
I can keep my eyelids open hope that exotic dancer answer
Roll cross country lost with the munchie looking for a country
Girl that will hunt me palmdale came back to me got down on her knees

And blew me jumped up on my dick screaming man i love what she do to me

[Chorus]
I'm tha only drunk (uh uh)
Dancin to tha funk (uh uh)
I guess it's up to me (uh uh)
To get this thing crunk
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi

[verse 3]
Standin in the yard bumpin sounds
See my homeboy in black and shout you blocking traffic back up and
Park you know I got a big fat blunt to spark other homeboys start
Cruisin by tryin to get drunk tryin to get high sidewalk looks like
A gangstameeting khaki sack it system beating next thing you know
I see a cop he's writing numbers down he don't stop wafle house late
At night drunkers are gone highers ar kait f**k with the waitress but
Don't be rude bitch might spit all in my food (hey play that music
Innocent folks won't refuse it) but it in the studio then abuse it
Say you got high gentleman excuse it get drunk sag your pants if you
All alone do your dance

[Chorus]
I'm tha only drunk (uh uh)
Dancin to tha funk (uh uh)
I guess it's up to me (uh uh)
To get this thing crunk
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi
I'm tha life of tha party (uh uh)
Sippin on bacardi

[guitar solo]

Joseph ‘Afroman’ Foreman began writing songs and handing them out to his friends on cassette while in the eighth grade. At 25 years old, he released his first album, 1999’s Sell Your Dope. Soon after, he moved from LA to Mississippi with the mission to ‘get away from competition and sell to actual people’, releasing his sophomore album Because I Got High in 2000 on T-Bones Records. Its title track, written hastily after a friend showed up and interrupted him on an ambitious day and insisted they instead get high, was the last song he had recorded for the album. Soon after, Afroman left the music business.

At the same time, the file-sharing software Napster – heavily used at the time to share and distribute music for free – was at its peak of popularity, and the album’s title track became popular with its users. Universal Records caught wind and signed Afroman to a six album deal and released it as a single on July 6, 2001.

“Because I Got High” immediately became one of the most-requested songs across the nation, growing even larger after syndicated morning radio show host Howard Stern began airing it regularly, helping to make it ‘the most requested song on the radio in the country’. Further boosting its popularity was its inclusion in the film (and soundtrack to) Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back and MTV’s eventual agreement to air a modified, less-controversial music video for the song. It peaked at #13 in the US, and topped the charts in ten countries overseas. Its album The Good Times reached #10 in the US.

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