![]() ![]() “I am supplying the key ingredients” for the movie, he told the AP. He had also planned to do a movie with the same title. Waiting to Inhale was Afroman’s eighth studio album and aimed at being a loosely based concept album parodying the movie Waiting to Exhale. No need for any new tracks, a few songs from Afroman’s previous indie records along with two different versions of “Because I Got High” and the single “Crazy Rap” provided enough boost to push it to certified gold record status. In celebration of Afroman’s 40th birthday, let’s check out what he’s been up to besides getting high.Īfter seeing the single’s success in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Taco Bell drive-thrus, Universal signed Afroman to a six-album deal almost immediately after “Because I Got High” broke and put out Afroman’s album The Good Times in October of 2001. It turns out Afroman - or Joseph Foreman, as he was known to his eighth grade teacher that had him expelled from school - has been incredibly busy the last 12 years, putting out eleven albums, working on screenplays, and getting sued for forgetting that he had a concert to perform… because he got high. Just where has Afroman been for the last decade? Did he travel down the same dismal path carved out by his “Because I Got High” central character, or did he take that Universal Records cash and retire to a compound with an endless stream of weed, snack foods, and high-speed internet Then the cloud of smoke dissipated, and Afroman was seemingly cast into the island of one-hit-wonders, sitting under a palm tree with Lou Bega and the guy who likes to drink pina coladas while getting caught in the rain. ![]() Soon Afroman was being courted by Universal Records and New Jersey’s native stoner son, Kevin Smith, who directed the song’s music video. ![]() The song became one of the first songs that was made a hit not by radio (although it did have some help from Howard Stern), but by the internet - specifically Napster. The humorous rap song would go on to garner Afroman a Grammy nomination in 2002, two years after its release on Afroman’s 2000 album of the same name. But by the end of the tune the song’s character is left a crippled bum on the street with only his right hand for sexual comfort. Sure, things aren’t going so bad at the start of the song ( I was gonna clean my room until I got high / I was gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high / my room is still messed up and I know why) - a messy room isn’t the end of the world. Afroman’s 2001 cautionary musical tale about the pitfalls of toking up played out like a dark comedy with its protagonist slowly sliding into a life of despair thanks to the evil gateway drug that is marijuana. (I’m looking in your direction, Cypress Hill.) But of all the songs about weed, few became as big of a mainstream hit as Afroman’s “Because I Got High.”Ī decade ago, going within two miles of a college campus and not hearing the song from a passing car was impossible. There are artists whose reputations appear to be surrounded by a near constant haze of smoke from their musical odes to marijuana. ![]()
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