Afroman Uses Footage Of Police Raiding His House For New Music Video

Afroman performs at concert

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I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume most people reading this probably haven’t thought about Afroman for a while. However, the man who burst onto the scene after dropping “Because I Got High” on an unsuspecting world in 2000 is still doing his thing more than two decades later.

Given his reputation, you probably won’t be shocked to learn the musician (born Joseph Edgar Foreman) tends to smoke a little bit of weed every now and then. However, drugs were just one aspect of the warrant that was issued prior to the raid police in Adams County conducted on his home in Ohio last August after receiving a phone call claiming someone at the residence was being held against their will.

However, the search that centered around drug trafficking and kidnapping allegations ended with law enforcement officials seizing a single vape pen, three roaches containing trace amounts of marijuana, and $4,000 in cash that was taken into evidence under civil forfeiture law.

In November, Afroman accused the department that conducted the raid of illegally withholding $400 of those funds after claiming they failed to return the full amount. However, he recently decided to turn those lemons into lemonade (and, presumably, some YouTube revenue to make up for the supposed deficit) when he compiled surveillance footage of the incident into a music video for a song titled “Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera.”

In the video, Afroman (who was in Chicago when the search took place) throws plenty of verbal barbs at the officers who conducted the raid while incorporating and recreating various shots from the fairly over-the-top operation.

Well played, Afroman. Well played.

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