Afroman

Released: March 6, 2006

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

Dashing through these hoes
Cadillac's and sixty 'fo's
On three wheels we go
Clocking lots of doe

Cellphone ringtone ring
My song "because I got high"
Smoking weed while I watch
The police flying by!

Oh, jinglebell, east palmdale jobe is back and not whack
Oooh found your daughter and you finally caught 'er and you mad 'cause I'm black
Ahaha I f**ked her good, just like I should, I think I blew her balloon
I didn't use a condom and now we have a problem, she havin' my baby in June (Say what?!)

I know this holiday hooker
I think her name is Jan
And if you 'ain't got no money (Hell yeah)
She's got a layaway plan

I got a blowjob from her friend
I think her name is Gwen
My dick plugged up her mouth
She couldn't get no oxygen!

Oh jinglebell, county jail, jobe's from the hood
Skinny women suck my dick real good but their butt cheeks feel like wood (Ouch!)
I be swimmin, in big fat women, when I'm in the sack (Ooh!)
Why have a skinny little bicycle bitch when I can ride a cadillac?!

I met this beautiful woman, she said she was Hawaiian
She said she didn't like black guys, however she was lyin'
She'd seen my go detonas, all my coupes and cash
She licked my hairy balls, like chocolate coconuts!

Oh, jinglebell, shotgun shell, sheriff got a gun
He pulled the trigger, shot that nigga look at that mo' fucka run!
Hit 'em in the head, kicked him in the ass, put a kneecap in his chest
Went to the court, and told the judge, "This man was resisting arrest!"

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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From the albums

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A Colt 45 Christmas (2006)

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