Afroman

Released: July 12, 2013

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

(Let me hit it!)

[Hook]
Hit this, hit this, hit this blunt with me
Baby
Hit this, hit this, hit this blunt with me
Darling
Hit this, hit this, hit this blunt with me
Baby
Hit this, hit this, hit this blunt with me

Well, it's the hungry hustler, Afro Man
Rims and Vogues on the Astro Van
Money coming in like a Palmdale Pimp
Double-O G with a low key limp

Always stand to myself
Concentrate on my wealth
Greater than your highest expectation
I run the world, let alone the nation
Doing it every day
Looking good, making pay
Smoking the best
From the west
Palmdale High
Across my chest
It's lonely at the top
But I like it
It's a brew punch and spike it

Who make this money?
Me, that's who!
I'ma smoke more weed
And drink more brew!

[Hook]

All the girls
Gather 'round
When Afroman
Comes to town

Hugging me
Kissing me
Bugging me
Dissing me

I'm in dank dimension
Love female attention
I'm down to Earth
But I'm top notch
C-walk like hopscotch

Snap your fingers
Bob your head
Hit the blunt
Make your bread

Stay on top like the boy dog
Life is something to enjoy dog
Take it, baby
All the way
When I hear you moan
I feel okay

Climax--
Fire up a tree
Baby--
Hit the blunt with me

[Hook]

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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