Afroman

By Tim Whitaker
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Afroman
The Good Times
UNIVERSAL RECORDS

Don't try to say you don't sing along with "Because I Got High." You do. You ain't that cool. "I was going to clean my room until I got high/I was going to get up and find the broom but then I got high/my room is still messed up and I know why/ because I got high/because I got high/because I got high." Afroman is a blunted-up frat-rap sensation, in large part because he sounds so unabashedly high while singing his very un-PC party album. His lyrics reflect the quintessential deliriously happy pothead, one with a simple message: Get high, get laid, get high--oh, and get drunk once in a while, too. In real life, Afroman is Joseph Foreman, 27, a guy who claims he was merely making a tape to amuse his pothead buddies, never dreaming The Good Times would become such a phenomenon. The other cuts on the album--like "Crazy Rap," "She Won't Let me F**k" and "Tall Cans"--pretty much reiterate the hit single's theme. But one cut--"The American Dream"--displays some edgy contempt for the system, showing that Afroman actually does a little thinking in between tokes. This is X-rated novelty music that mostly strikes a single note. It will leave us as fast as it exploded, as all novelty music does. But in this, the briefest of moments, it's quite the hoot. When you're high: A; when you're not: C.

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1. thomas said... on Nov 5, 2009 at 02:31PM

“afro man is da bom”

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