Afroman

Released: April 20, 2004

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

Dad i wanna be a rapper can i make a song with you?
Not right now man dad kinda busy
Well e40 let his son rap and master p let lil romeo rap how come you dont let me rap
Ok...i'll let you rap man..uhh you know we just...ya know we need some beats and you need to write some lyrics ya know you just can't rap homie
I got some beats
Where you get some beats from
I made em up in your studio
You made em up in my studio? what you doin up in my studio
Workin on my new album
Workin on your new album? who let you in my studio
Momma
Ttt man i'ma kick
I mixed it down and burnt it to a cd here ya go...by the way man thats a cheap CD burner
What?...man you better not be talkin about my cd burner man i'ma play this shit and it better bet tight and if its not i'ma take off my belt and whop your ass you and your mom

Ok...you made all this by yourself?
Yea?
Hmmm
Hey dad why dont you and me have a freestyle session you and me right now
Hahha uhhh yea...hey get the headphones come in the booth couse
With the one two three, three two one [whaa] i'm in the booth freestylein with my son
Trippin on the beat he just made might as well get paied in the sixth grade
[rings]
My phone is ringin....while i'm singin
[i wonder who that is]
Hahaha cmon
What up...hello...recordin a song with my son its almost done
I'm freestylin on the mike i got on some dirty nikes
I done walked through the yard watchin them do the lap around the house
Talkin to my spouce
Dad...my and my dad we rap so tight every word we say it sounds so right
We just like to do this and that cause all of the sudden our pockets were phat
When i was up little bittie kid hey dude guess what i did
I did good in school i did good in readin all of the sudden i did good in readin
All of the sudden man i wasn't cheatin on my tests and i did my best cause with god
I just passed the test

Yea...uhh..i useta alwase cheat catch me lookin at the next mans sheet
But i'ma tell you in the song we got our tests back and they both was wrong
He got a f i got a f i can do bad by my damn self, dont ever copy off your buddy take your ass home and study
[yea, damn]
Cmon man cmon..cmon up to the mike...go go go go

Dad let me tell you one thing you just can't go around living like this man what you doin
Cause all of the sudden you gonna get picked
Cause if you go ahead and rob that dude cause he got more food
Man...what you doin you can't live life through suueing...man
Man i dont like this because man you alwase gettin pissed
Because every time you get mad some dude walk around bein sad
When you walk over their and cheer him up all of the sudden he got pride in his cup
Then you share with him and you share with he man thats the ultimate

[random laughing]

Son we got some work to do...yea....i wanna chill in my coop deville

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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