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Violent NightAfroman

Released: November 2, 2004

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

Drink some wine, smoke some blunt with me
Call up some friends and play this CD

Merry Christmas to all of you (merry Christmas)
I say yeah, Merry Christmas to all of you (ohh oh)

Silent Night
Po-Police lights
Stop the engine
Keep your hansd inside
Cops surround me with pistols in hand
Three outstanding warrants for Joseph Foreman
Sleep in the county jail
Can't post no bail

I wanna wish you a...
Merry Christmas to all of you (merry Christmas)
Merry Christmas.... to all of you

Silent night
Hand cuffs are tied
People staring at me
At the red red light
Ninety five hundred I see a far
[?] in the custody car
Sleep in the county jail
Can't post no bail

Afroman

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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