Playing both sides: Despite crafting a track dedicated to getting high, Foreman had the wherewithal to ensure that his song wasn’t going to have repercussions. But the root of the song was that I was going to clean my room.” ![]() Then, I was just trying to make a nice song - you want to make a song that everybody can relate to. Then, I started living vicariously through my friends and thinking about stuff that they were going to do. ![]() Then I started thinking about other stuff I was gonna do until I got high. “I said, ‘Okay, I’m gonna clean my room after we smoke this joint.’ We started smoking, then some girls came over with some beer, and it turned into a big ass party. “One of my homeboys came over, and he wanted to smoke some weed with me,” he remembers. He actually was going to clean his room: Foreman confirms that the song’s opening line, “I was gonna clean my room, but then I got high” is a true story. Universal Records said, ‘This guy’s hot’ and signed me real quick before I got loose.” “Napster put me in a position to be signed. “I went viral before viral was viral,” Foreman jokes. ![]() Under 48 hours later, “Because I Got High” had generated buzz around the world. Luckily for him, one of the recipients uploaded the album - which featured “Because I Got High” - to the then-newly launched file-sharing service Napster. Overnight success, years in the making: Following years of trying to get his rap career off the ground, Foreman gave it one last shot by passing out CDs at a party in 2000. “I couldn’t get away from it, so I said, ‘Okay motherf–kers, my name is Afroman!’ I started making T-shirts, and I tried to make it as creative as possible, putting my head in the ‘O.’ And it worked! Everybody that was laughing at me was buying T-shirts, and they started loving me.” “This girl started calling me in college, and everybody thought that s–t was funny, so they started calling me that,” he continues.
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