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Roll yourself a joint of rap, hip-hop, blues and reggae then smoke it. Afroman’s 2001 hit, “Because I Got High” is a humorous, reefer/rap romp that broke worldwide records. Afroman, born Joseph Foreman, found his musical roots early growing up in L.A. But his music clearly has borrowed from the part of his adolescence spent in Mississippi, birthplace of the blues. Afroman’s music has gained popularity thanks to the non-traditional, even counterculture music scene. His first attempts to gain a musical toehold are punctuated with stints as sidewalk rapper. Foreman’s tracks have amassed a cult-like following. Singles have been scattered to the four winds on music file sharing services and passed along to friends and acquaintances as on eclectic music mixes.

Self-avowed independent, Afroman has surprisingly struck it rich with the number of albums he’s released, for the most part without the help of Big Music. A brief courtship with Universal Records led to his album The Good Times. Single “Because I Got High” reached a much wider audience when it was included as part of the soundtrack for the 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Listen to any of Foreman’s singles and you feel the innate, but subtle anti-establishment mantra. This is the foundation for self-made, do-it-yourself musician with a more serious message than he lets on. Foreman’s tour schedule reads like a travelogue of bleary-eyed pit stops at university campuses and smoky gin halls in all the best secondary cities. This is his audience—thousands, maybe millions of freethinkers tired of the same old, same old.

Albums feature titles such as Colt 45 Christmas, Drunk N High and Sell Your Dope, all of which underscore Foreman’s humorous irreverence for the other kind of rap, the kind that sells violence and hate.

My Fro-losophy (1999):

1. (Freestyle) Fro-style
2. Let Me Out
3. Cali Swang’n
4. If It Ain’t Free
5. Crazy Rap
6. The Solution
7. What If
8. Ante Dope Valley
9. Tall Cans

Sell Your Dope (2000):

1. Basehead Boogie
2. Palmdale
3. Crazy Rap
4. Let’s All Get Drunk
5. If It Ain’t Free
6. Sell Your Dope
7. There’s A Price 2 Pay
8. Paranoid
9. Strugglin’ N Strivin’
10. Let Me Out
11. Bacc 2 School
12. Hungry Hustler
13. God Has Smiled On Me

The Good Times (2001):

1. Because I Got High
2. Crazy Rap
3. She Won’t Let Me...
4. Hush
5. Tumbleweed
6. Let’s All Get Drunk
7. Tall Cans
8. Palmdale
9. Mississippi
10. The American Dream
11. Because I Got High (Extended Version, unlisted track)

Afroholic... The Even Better Times (2004):
Disc 1:

1. Nobody Knows My Name
2. Leaving California
3. Turn It Off
4. Suck a Dick Jockey
5. Girlz
6. I’ve Been Hustlin’
7. West Y’all
8. Drive Better Drunk
9. Jackin’ Afroman
10. Colt 45
11. Freak On With You
12. Ghetto Memories
13. Cali Swangin’
14. What If (feat. E-40)
15. From Tha Ghetto
16. Sag Your Pants
17. Wonderful Tonite

Disc 2

1. Keep On Limp’n
2. On My Hustle (feat. DJ Mr. Mixxx and Big Luc)
3. Caddy Hop
4. Just My Paranoia
5. Let’s Get High Tonight
6. Late at Night
7. Rollin’
8. Hittin’ Switches
9. Airport
10. West Coast Rap
11. Compton Isn’t Too Far Away
12. Money (Ain’t Everything)
13. Money (Reprise)
14. U Can Make It
15. Major Beat
16. Me and Kenny

Afroholic... The Even Better Times (2004):
Disc 1:

1. whackk rappers
2. I’ve Been Hustlin’
3. West Y’all
4. I Drive Better Drunk
5. Let’s Get High Tonight
6. Late At Night
7. Gangsta Sound
8. Leaving California
9. Hittin’ Switches
10. Airport
11. Ghetto Memories
12. Cali Swangin’
13. Paranoid (Featuring The 2 Zig Zaggs)

Disc 2:

1. Keep On Limp’n
2. On My Hustle (featuring DJ Mr. Mixxx & Big Luc)
3. 1988
4. This The Kind Of Beat
5. Dance Wit Me
6. What If (Featuring E-40)
7. From Tha Ghetto
8. Smoke 1
9. F*** Tha Corporate World
10. Money (Ain’t Everything)
11. U Can Make It
12. Major Beat
13. Whack Rappers
14. Whack Rappers II (featuring Strange)
15. Me & Kenny

4RO:20 (2004):

1. Trip
2. Beer Bottle Up
3. Ghetto Life
4. On Tha Mic
5. Check Out My Website
6. Tha More U Drink
7. Take A Hit
8. Come On
9. Life of Tha Party
10. Smoke A Blunt

Starvation is Motivation (2004):

1. Check This Out - (with The 2 Zigg Zaggs/Mr. Mixx)
2. Dirty South Legend - (with Mr. Mixx)
3. Going Out Tonite - (with Strainj/Blaq)
4. Where I’m From - (with Strainj/Blaq/Po Boy)
5. Eye Of Tha Storm - (with Strainj/Blaq/Po Boy)
6. I’m Ballin’ - (with Lowkey)
7. Shake Your Ass - (with Mr. Mixx)
8. Money Make Tha World Go ’Round - (with Blaq)
9. Palmdale Is Tha City - (with Fatsoe)
10. Talkin’ To My Homies - (with Strainj)
11. Still Smokin’ - (with Po Boy)
12. First Time, The - (with Strainj)
13. Hungry Hustla Hollas

Drunk n High (2006):

1. Let’s All Get Drunk
2. Husler Man
3. Gotta Stop Drinkin
4. I Live In A Van
5. Keep It Movin
6. Front N Back
7. 3 Wheelin
8. Drinkin On The Sidewalk
9. Turn Up The Volume Knob
10. I Refuse
11. Scrollin Thru My Bitches
12. White Girlz
13. Feel Alright
14. Drunk’N’High
15. Cracchouse

A Colt 45 Christmas (2006):

1. Deck My Balls
2. Police Blow My Wad
3. 12 J’s Of X-Mas
4. Afroman Is Coming To Town
5. Frosty
6. Jobe Bells
7. Let Her Blow
8. A Strainy Poem
9. I Wish You Would Roll A New Blunt
10. O Chronic Tree
11. Violent Night

Waiting To Inhale (2007):

1. I Know All About You
2. Ho Stoppa
3. Dick Hang Low
4. My Chunk
5. Spit It Out
6. Smoke Some Green
7. Genie in a bottle
8. Colt 40 FIVA
9. Jumped Up G’d Up
10. Po Bitch (intro)
11. Po Bitch