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Seriously, it's kind of disappointing that this schmuck gets lucky on this halfass song.

Well, but isn't the whole point the half-assedness of it? Like, "I was going to record a really great song, but then I got high?" I must admit that I find this pretty amusing, at least up until the "I was gonna pay my child support," at which I point I feel a twinge of creeped-out-ness. I doubt I'll care to hear it more than two or three more times, though, so I'm bracing for the annoyance that's surely building.

Nitsuh, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Note: you could claim a weird (though unintentional) brilliance in that it could be read as an anti-drug song, which is allowing its airplay and video play (with a big implied wink). As in: it's a song about drugs that lets you read it however you feel about drugs -- if you're doing bonghits while listening, you're probably going to laugh your ass off, and if your grandmother listens to it, she might think this Afroman is quite a truth-telling young man.

Nitsuh, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, I know. It's just a dumb song all around. Either he's proud of being a fuckup (in these fake scenerios) or else it's an antidrug message. Stupid. I'm sure we could've all done this with one brain tied behind our back in the music lab at our college and we would have played it once or twice and realized it was stupid and embarrassing and throw it away!

Nude spock, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

On the list of Insults to the Good Name of American Popular Culture, I'd say this think ranks above such monstrosities as Aaron Carter and _Temptation Island_.

David Raposa, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Y'all just aren't smoking enough weed. :)

Nitsuh, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'll take my novelty hits where I can find them. ClassiX0R for Pat O'Brien having to grin his way thru relating its position in the charts at the end of whatever horrible show he hosts.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who let the dogs out?

Lindsey B, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four years pass...
I've been listened to this song at Radio1 in 2004 or start of 2005. It was in the middle of the night. I was scared. I never knew the author of this "opus?". And everytime I see this playing in a brazilian radio, I fall myself in a conseption that something's just starting to happen with music... For bad, of course!
And this man won a grammy!

Edu Camargo, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd say this think ranks above such monstrosities as Aaron Carter and _Temptation Island_.

All those things were great... I miss the summer of 2001!

morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

me too!

city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The era of lost innocence!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, I hated this song when it first came out and I still hate it now. Thank God I haven't heard it in a while.

xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, I hated this song when it first came out and I still hate it now. Thank God I haven't heard it in a while.

That's a funny way of spelling "classic."

I have it on green vinyl!

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, as someone who has smoked pot a total of once in his life (why would I want to take a drug that makes me boring), I like to think of it as a self-aware anti-pot pro-pot song. Also, when was the last time something so half-assed sounding was on rap radio? It's like Beat Happening getting a song on MTV!

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

this is such a great great song - for ALL the reasons nitsuh mentions above, but it also just SOUNDS good through a big stereo despite its obvious cheapness, i mean it's a novelty track but the music is great! i think its placement over the end credits to whatever that kevin smith movie probably did a lot for it above and beyond just the exposure.. most cinemas have sound systems that put home stereos to shame...

what i am a little more embarrassed about is the fact that i now actually love almost all of afroman's music. (??)

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

No love for "Industry Diss"? I'm still in awe of his ruminations on Eve's flat head.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

afroman has a song where he mentions eve??? that's not on my copy of "good times"!

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i made a thread about it a long time ago, when i had much more vim and vigor!

Holy Crap! Afroman Disses THE ENTIRE RAP INDUSTRY - Jay, 50, Nas, Lil Jon, many others!

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

nude spock in "not getting it" shocka!

afroman was being interviewed on some show about 1 hit wonders and he was hilariously stoned.

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

RIP

Dom Passantino, Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link

I like afroman.

forksclovetofu, Saturday, 23 February 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

loved the cover of his Waiting to inhale album

melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Saturday, 16 October 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Eternally love this song

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 16 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

did you folks know he's released 8 albums in the past decade?? one of which appears to be a really nasty divorce album?

frogbs, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:21 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link

Xp guess his productivity went through the roof when he stopped getting high

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link

I've never thought about him the same way since finding out all the friends joking around in the background of his tracks were just him. there's something about imagining him recording all the little laughs and adlibs to tag onto his own jokes that makes me a little sad

didn't he get some ridiculous multi album deal off the strength off his one hit? maybe he's just fulfilling a contract? but who is his an audience?

your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link

this might be the best thing he ever did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtdkT8tHoLA

your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link

OK so "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?" is actually surprisingly powerful?

The Afroman Xmas album is genuinely one of the worst things I've ever heard

boxedjoy, Sunday, 12 March 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link

Ha, I was just thinking about this song a few days ago, wondering what he had become

Dinsdale, Sunday, 12 March 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link

Eternally love this song

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:21 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

My feelings remain unchanged

Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 12 March 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link

they raided Afroman's house and found nothing? these must be some of the worst cops in history

frogbs, Thursday, 23 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

“emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation.”

GOOD

obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link

oh no sir NOBODY fucks with Afro Man gtfo ho-lice

hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 March 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link

there is some serious bad blood between our friends afroman and the folks over at the ad@ms county sheriff's dept—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f9R_UYrDc

afroman — "why you disconnecting my video camera?" (2022)

''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Friday, 24 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link

My God, these album titles.

My Fro-losophy (1998)
Because I Got High (2000)
Sell Your Dope (2000)
The Good Times (2001)
Afroholic... The Even Better Times (2004)
Jobe Bells (2004)
4R0:20 (2004)
The Hungry Hustlerz: Starvation Is Motivation (2004)
Drunk 'n' High (2006)
A Colt 45 Christmas (2006)
Waiting to Inhale (2008)
Frobama: Head of State (2009)
Marijuana Music (2013)
The Frorider (2014)
Happy to Be Alive (2016)
Cold Fro-T-5 and Two Frigg Fraggs (2017)
Save a Cadillac, Ride a Homeboy (2020)
Lemon Pound Cake (2022)
Famous Player (2023)

Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 March 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link

Waiting to Inhale is a great one

frogbs, Saturday, 25 March 2023 01:53 (one year ago) link

Cannot vouch for most of this guy’s music but “will you help me repair my door,” both the song and video, is an instant classic.

I am disturbed though by the fact that his walls are painted kelly green and he has green carpet. Did no one notice this?

treeship., Saturday, 25 March 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link

Really want this thread title changed

hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 March 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link

I think it’s a fair title because he is on record saying every rapper except him is whack.

treeship., Saturday, 25 March 2023 02:49 (one year ago) link

cold fro-t-five and two frigg fraggs is the greatest album title ever

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 25 March 2023 09:51 (one year ago) link

Marijuana Music has an elegant simplicity to it

ꙮ (map), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link


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