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Artist: Afroman: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Discography:      Jobe Bells    Year: 2004    Tracks: 12      Afroholic: The Even Better Times [CD 2]    Year: 2004    Tracks: 16      Afroholic: The Even Better Times [CD 1]    Year: 2004    Tracks: 17 Born Joseph Foreman, Afroman may be the kickoff creative person to accomplish a ecumenical hit with the attend of the Internet. Citing his influences as Too Short, Big Daddy Kane, and 2 Live Crew, he began his blame calling in the eighth grade when he started devising homemade tapes of his own songs and passing them out to his classmates. He got his bring forth down as a performing artist at church service where he played drums and eventually affected on to playacting guitar. For a piece, he used to exploit as a baggage brute trainer at an aerodrome piece trying to relieve oneself an notion with his songs. He was placid living in East Palmdale, Los Angeles, when in November 1999 Afroman released his first album, Sell Your Dope, 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 spring of 2000 he concocted his second LP, Because I Got High, with producer Tim Ramenofsky. He distributed it at shows and with the help of T-Bone Records in Hattiesburg. The more multitude he performed for, the more give-and-take of mouthpiece spread, with non just a small avail from the Internet's controversial music-file swapping service, Napster. Someone world Health Organization got his hands on his medicine at a depict posted the track "Because I Got High" to Napster and on the spur of the moment everything changed for Afroman. Then Howard Stern's radio show boosted "Because I Got High"'s popularity by playing the song on his depict. The song "Because I Got High" was based on Afroman's inability to clear up his room. The song lists a telephone number of activities -- cleaning his room, going to court, attending class -- that come derailed because of "reefer lyssa." Afroman finally as well gained the aid of Universal Records, world Health Organization sign him to a six-album deal. His kickoff Universal album, The Good Times, was a compilation of his number one two LPs and a few unexampled ones. "Because I Got High" was too included on the soundtrack to Kevin Smith's motion-picture show Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back prima Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. "Because I Got High" became a vast hit around the macrocosm in the final quarter of 2001. When he returned in 2004, he did so in a big agency, with the double-disc Afroholic...the Even Better Times, albeit he did so severally. Free of Universal, he wrote, produced, and recorded Afroholic on his own, marketed it mostly via the Internet (web.afromanmusic.com), and toured with a live band. The holiday album Jobe Bells followed in 2004 and and then came Drunk'n'High in 2006.