Afroman

Released: February 5, 2008

Songwriter: Afroman

Producer: Balis Beats

[Hook]
If you lookin for me
Ill be at the party
Smokin Marijuana
Sippin on bacardi
Drunk driva (drunk Driver)
Colt 40ty fiva (Hustla Owww)
Everybody know the party dont stop
Drink every last drop be nice to the cops now (yes sir)
Drunk Driver, Colt 40ty Fiva

Uhhhh
Im on the front-tear of my life (tear of my life)
Lotta Marijuana lotta beer in my life
Road trip, 40 ounce to my lip
Pull it close to me rubber on the hip
Who me? ima drunk driva (drunk driva)
Afroman colt 40ty fiva (colt 40ty fiva)
You might think this life-style sucks (style sucks)
I wouldn't trade it for amillion bucks...

[Hook]
Another day another party
Different place different pace
Different faces different races
On the same bassis
Gettin fucked up
Cuz we dont care (we dont care)
Ima rich man baby so i luv to share (luv to share)
Real drunks do it all (do it all)
Drink drive run fight and crawl (fight and crawl)
Im knee deep in the part (deep in the part)
Smokin Marijuana sippin on bacardi (sippin on bacardi)
Real talk mention my name (mention my name)
Im in the colt 45 hall of fame (hall of fame)
Dear god im glad im alive (Glad im alive)
Smokin Marijuana drinkin colt 45 (colt forty fiiive)
This is everyday it never get old (it never get old)
Blunts rolled tight colt fourty five cold (colt forty five cold)
This ain't a rap song this is my life (this is my life)
Colt forty five is my sexy wife

[Hook] x2
[Music fades and song is over]

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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