Artist: Afroman Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Jobe Bells Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
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Afroholic: The Even Better Times [CD 2] Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
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Afroholic: The Even Better Times [CD 1] Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Max Born Joseph Foreman, Afroman may be the low gear creative person to reach a worldwide tally with the serve of the Internet. Citing his influences as Too Short, Big Papa Kane, and 2 Live Crew, he began his find fault career in the eighth grade when he started fashioning homemade tapes of his possess songs and passing them out to his classmates. He got his get belt down as a performer at church where he played drums and ultimately affected on to playing guitar. For a piece, he victimized to act as a luggage fauna flight simulator at an airdrome while trying to salve oneself an whim with his songs.
He was placid bread and butter in Eastern United States Palmdale, Los Angeles, when in November 1999 Afroman released his kickoff album,
Sell Your Poop, and played parties, sidewalks, and contests. Not finding L.A. to his liking, he stirred to Hattiesburg, MS, where he teamed up with drummer Jody Stallone and keyboardist/bassist Daryl Havard. In the saltation of 2000 he concocted his minute LP,
Because I Got High, with producer Tim Ramenofsky. He distributed it at shows and with the avail of T-Bone Records in Hattiesburg. The more hoi polloi he performed for, the more word of mouthpiece scatter, with not but a small avail from the Internet's controversial music-file swapping table service, Napster. Somebody reality Health Organisation got his men on his medicine at a depict posted the track "Because I Got High" to Napster and on the spur of the import everything changed for Afroman. Then Catherine Howard Stern's wireless show boosted "Because I Got High"'s popularity by playing the vocal on his portray. The song "Because I Got High" was based on Afroman's inability to clear up up his way. The song lists a telephone number of activities -- cleanup his room, departure to court, attending class -- that come derailed because of "marijuana cigarette rabies."
Afroman eventually as well gained the aid of Linguistic universal Records, world Health Organization sign him to a six-album deal. His kickoff Universal album,
The Goodness Times, was a compilation of his number one deuce LPs and a few unexampled ones. "Because I Got High" was also included on the soundtrack to Kevin Smith's moving-picture show express
John Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back prima Mat Damon and Ben Affleck. "Because I Got High" became a vast reach around the creation in the final examination quartern of 2001. When he returned in 2004, he did so in a vauntingly federal agency, with the double-disc
Afroholic...the Even Better Times, albeit he did so severally. Release of Universal proposition, he wrote, produced, and recorded
Afroholic on his have, marketed it more often than not via the Internet (web.afromanmusic.com), and toured with a survive isthmus. The vacation album
Jobe Bells followed in 2004 and and then came
Drunk'n'High in 2006.
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