Afroman
is the stage name of Joseph Edgar Foreman, a Los Angeles-born, Mississippi-based rapper known for his songs "Because I Got High" and "Crazy Rap".
Tropes:
- Addiction Displacement: In the Positive Remix of "Because I Got High," Afroman talks about how he used to smoke tobacco and drink alcohol before he found cannabis to be a better alternative to both.
- Addled Addict: "Because I Got High" isn't exactly celebrating cannabis usage, let's put it that way. It's subverted in the Positive Remix, though.
- Bawdy Song: "Crazy Rap" has Afroman telling his friends about various sexual encounters he's had, while they smoke weed.
- Citizenship Marriage: In "Crazy Rap," Afroman has a brief fling with a Mexican immigrant named Maria, but is unable to afford marrying her so she can stay in the country.She wanted to get married, but I couldn't afford it
I know I'm gonna cry when she gets deported - Dating What Daddy Hates: "Crazy Rap" has Afroman shack up with a white woman whose father happens to be the leader of the KKK. Said father comes home and is not pleased in the least when he finds out.
- Dirty Cop: After his house got raided by the police (who had a warrant falsely accusing him of drug trafficking and kidnapping), Afroman wrote the songs "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?", "Lemon Pound Cake", and "Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera?", whose lyrics are about how corrupt and inept the officers involved in the raid must be.
- Drugs Are Bad: "Because I Got High" is all about how one man's life was ruined by his inability to stop smoking weed.I messed up my entire life because I got high
I lost my kids and wife because I got high
Now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why
(Why, man?)
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high - Drugs Are Good: The positive remix of "Because I Got High" lists all the ways marijuana has positively affected both the singer's life and society as a whole.
- The Klan: Afroman runs into the leader of a Klan branch in "Crazy Rap".
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The Klan leader shows Afroman no mercy when he catches him.He beat me to the left, he beat me to the right
That motherfucker whooped my ass all night - Really Gets Around: Afroman will have sex with (almost) any woman. The second verse of "Crazy Rap" is basically a long list of ladies he's bedded.
- Take That!: Most of Lemon Pound Cake is a massive one to the Adam's County Police Department, who raided his house over false pretenses. The title song is about one who had the gall to steal a piece of cake from him while searching his house. They also tried to take his music videos down which featured footage of the raid.
- Triumphant Reprise: Advocates for marijuana legalization got Afroman to write a version of "Because I Got High" in 2014 that highlighted the benefits of marijuana.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: In "Crazy Rap," Afroman was looking forward to having sex with a woman from Hollywood until she "whooped out a dick that was bigger than mine."
- Worth It: In "Crazy Rap," Afroman has just banged the daughter of the local KKK leader, gets caught by said Klansman, and suffers a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. How does he feel afterward?I ain't mad at her prejudiced dad
'Cuz that's the best damn pussy I ever had!
- I wasn't gonna go on TV Tropes, but then I got high
I wasn't gonna repeat those memes and jokes, but then I got high
Now my life is ruined, and I know why
(Why, man?)
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high
