Afroman

Released: November 10, 2017

Featuring: Chad Mac

Songwriter: Chad Mac Afroman

Producer: Afroman

[Intro: Chad Mac]
Here's a little story that must be told
About a good ol'boy that got put on hold
They tried to hold me back from fortune and fame
But real country boys stay true to the game

[Verse 1: Chad Mac]
Yeah, Chad Mac in the place
And this is for the jacked up trucks with the bass
And the mud grip tires
They tried to stomp me out but I'm hotter than a bonfire
Every time I drink 190 proof
My deer blind turns into a DJ Booth
This is how we party in the woods
So call up your folks and tell 'em it's all good

[Chorus]
Turn up the radio we got the beer iced down
The moon is shining so pass it around
Tell ya friends and ya family that its all good
'Cause this is how we do it when we party in the woods

[Verse 2: Afroman]
Afroman growing weed like a hippie
Party in the woods when I'm in Mississippi
I told Chad Mac my Cadillac might get stuck
Pick me up in the truck
He came from the back woods to my back hood
(I got my pedal to the metal and the 4 Wheels drive its all good)
Listen to the mutters water splashing out the gutters

[Chorus]
Turn up the radio we got the beer iced down
The moon is shining so pass it around
Tell ya friends and ya family that its all good
'Cause this is how we do it when we party in the woods

[Verse 3: Chad Mac]
This is how we do it in the sticks
Just some good ol' boys on that down south shit
If your country than you feel it
We party in the woods cause we all bout that real tree
Mudzillas on my shit cause they bite well
High beams cutting trails like a white tail
This how we partying so call up your folks and tell 'em it's all good

[Chorus]
Turn up the radio we got the beer iced down
The moon is shining so pass it around
Tell ya friends and ya family that its all good
'Cause this is how we do it when we party in the woods

[Verse 4: Afroman]
I was born in LA raised (Palmdale) from the west coast where my rap tapes really don't sell
"Well," I went down south with a colt 45 and a blunt in my mouth
After sippin' Bacardi I started spittin' up the stupid all brickless part My grass roots stands from the woods of old grow
Help me take the shit off the stove

[Chorus]
Turn up the radio we got the beer iced down
The moon is shining so pass it around
Tell ya friends and ya family that its all good
'Cause this is how we do it when we party in the woods

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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