Afroman

Released: July 4, 2008

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

(Melody of "Sweet Home Alabama")

(Hook)
Hooomegrown in Alabama, I got...
Four hundred twenty pounds of weed
Hooomegrown in Alabama
Afroman got what'chu need (hahahaha)

(Verse 1)
I grow my weed in Alabama ('Bama)
One blunt will mess up ya' grammar (Mess up ya' grammar)
My town baby, Mobile (Mobiiile)
Twenty pounds in my Coupe De Ville (De Ville)
She told me (She told me) in Montgomery (Montgomery)
She'll smoke some blunts and grow plants for me (Plants for me)
I grow White Widow in Opelika (Opelika)
Choke on the smoke, I hope ya like her (Hope ya like her)
Thelma (Thelma) livin in Selma (Livin in Selma)
She's a proper little share cropper (Share cropper)
Birmingham is like Amsterdam (Amsterdam)
If you smokin the same kinda weed I am (Wow)
Spring break, Dub's shores (Dub's shores)
Money comin in in big scores (Big scores)
Huntsville, bluntsville
Afromans marijuana meal, it was

(Hook)
Hooomegrown in Alabama, I got...
Four hundred twenty pounds of weed
Hooomegrown in Alabama
Afroman got what'chu need

(Verse 2)
I got another share cropper in Tuskaloosa (Tuskaloosa)
Well endowed, with a big caboose-a (Big caboose-a)
Took my pole to her fishin hole (Fishin hole)
Smacked her cheek and said "Roll tide, roll" (Roll tide roll, Bucaulk)
Told this girl in Andalusia (Andalusia)
You have land, so I can use ya (I can use ya)
I got weed, but I'm growin more (Growin more)
All around the prison in Atmore (Atmore)
Rustled this trooper in Russellville (Russellville)
He tried to tussle but I got away still (Got away still)
I grow a lot of weed in Bessemer (Bessemer)
When it comes to growin weed, I'm the best at the (Best at the)
I'm gon' burn (I'm gon' burn)
You gon' burn (You gon' burn)
We all gon' burn, when I get to Auburn
Cause I'm a marijuana farmer, I don't care man (Care man)
I'm higher than a Tuskegee air man (Air man)
It was...

(Hook)
Hooomegrown in Alabama, I got...
Four hundred twenty pounds of weed
Hooomegrown in Alabama
Afroman got what'chu need

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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