Afroman

Released: November 25, 2014

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Afroman

Smoke a blunt
I love to smoke a blunt man
Hey man you know, my white homies ask me
Do you like uh, bongs or blunts?
I tell ‘em blunts, cause i get pulled over all the time
I can’t be throwin’ bongs out the window, you know what i mean

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Then let it go

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Then let it go

I love smoking weed all by myself
Dont have to pass it to no one else
I hit my blunt
Anytime i want
Got so much weed i dont have to hunt

I dont get hyper
I dont get crunk
I do get high
I do get drunk

Once im high and im high no doubt
I grab my ashtray and put my cigar out
Once my high is gone with the wind
I grab my lighter then i flick then i again

Briefly take a chronic break
Weed headache
Big mistake
Im high so i put my blunt down
Turn up my music and dance all around

I can’t hear the phone
I can’t hear the door
I never leave home ‘less
Its time to school

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

I remember when i started smokin weed
Pickin' out the stems and the seeds
I didn’t have enough to buy me a beer
My homeboy told me to hit this here(?)

I grabbed the blunt
I took a hit
I thought to myself
“i like this shit”
It’s better than beer
So annalyze this
I don’t have to go take a piss

I don’t know how to roll
But the people i roll with
Know how to roll blunts like a pole

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go
Hahah

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hahahah
Hold a smoke, uh
Now let it goo
Hahahah uhh haha uhh

Drivin' cross country though minnesota
State fuckin' trooper straight pulled me over
He said i was drivin' fast as hell
He took a deep breath and asked “what’s that smell?”
I knew i was busted, at this point
So i handed him a beautiful, perfectly rolled joint

He looked at it once
He looked at it twice
He told me, “you roll your joints real nice”

Afroman don’t give a fuck
Light that blunt and get stupid stuff
Smokin' to me is so much fun
People bitch cause i don’t get nothin' done

If you are a little kid
Please don’t do the things i did
Anti-drug message? let me see..
Don’t smoke weed
Give it to me!

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

Smoke a blunt
Nice and slow
Hold the smoke
Now let it go

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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