Ramenofsky produced and released Afroman's album Because I Got High in 2000 on T-Bones Records it was distributed primarily through concerts and the file-sharing service Napster before its title track was played on The Howard Stern Show. In 1998, Afroman released his first album, My Fro-losophy and later relocated to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he met drummer Jody Stallone, keyboardist/bassist Darrell Havard and producer Tim Ramenofsky (a.k.a. All these people would come by my house just to give me comments about how cool they thought the song was." Foreman also performed in his church at a young age, playing both the drums and guitar. And I realized that, even though I wasn't at school, my song was at school, so in a way I was still there. So I wrote this song about her and it sold about 400 copies: it was selling to teachers, students, just about everybody. "She got me kicked out of school for sagging my pants, which was a big deal back then. "The first tape I made was about my eighth-grade teacher," he once recalled. He's a life-long musician who never stopped, who just happened to have one song that completely dwarfed the rest of his ridiculously extensive catalog.Foreman's musical career began in the eighth grade, when he began recording homemade songs and selling them to his classmates. But Afroman is not, in fact, a one-hit wonder. never mind), but it's aggressively fun and surprisingly entertaining throughout given that the artist behind it is associated with a single song. It ain't high art (unless by "high" you mean. Occasionally the music gets inventive as well, as in the case of Tall Cans, which breaks to half-time halfway through and then slowly ramps up for its outro. Mostly this accomplished by just focusing on the vocals: layers and layers of half-sung, half-rapped lyrics that are doubled and harmonized with backup singing, shoutouts, and chicken noises. It's genuinely impressive that Afroman is able to take such minimal production and do such compelling things with them. Almost every single song is about getting drunk, getting high, getting laid, or failing to do one of those because of the other two. The music is so lo-fi it sounds like it assembled from the drum loop samples on a Casio keyboard. Because I Got High was considered mildly scandalous in 2001, but it's almost quaint when you put it next to She Won't Let Me F**k or Crazy Rap (Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags). It's fun, it's laid-back, it's hilarious, and it's goddamn filthy. The Good Times was his major label debut, and is basically a greatest hits album of his prior work, some of which had already been released independently. He started recording and selling mixtapes in eighth grade. Pothead stereotypes to the contrary, this man is a workaholic. These are a mix of live, compilation, and studio records with titles like My Fro-losophy, Waiting To Inhale, Marijuana Music, and One Hit Wonder EP-a self-deprecating joke that's even funnier if you know what a one-hitter is. It might surprise you, then, to know that he's put out thirty-two albums since 1998. It's easy to disregard Afroman as a one-hit wonder for his gimmicky slow jam Because I Got High.
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