Joseph Foreman – better known by his stage name Afroman – is a Southern rapper most famous for his stoner classic megahit ‘Because I Got High’. The iconic track was later nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. Afroman joined the likes of Method Man and Deftones at Cypress Hill’s fall festival “Smoke Out” fall festival following the success of the song and signed a six-album deal with Universal Records, releasing album The Good Times which included new tracks and a compilation of the rapper’s first two albums. He later parted ways with Universal but has gone on to release numerous successful albums since.

Born in L.A., Afroman began his music career at an early age recording his own songs and selling them to his classmates. 1998 he dropped his first full-length My Fro-losophy and moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he met producer Tim Ramenofsky (a.k.a. Headfridge), along with Keyboard/bassist Darrell Havard and drummer Jody Stallone. In 2000 Ramenofsky produced and released Afroman’s new album Because I Got High On T-Bones Records. Initially distributed through filesharing service Napster, the title track began to gain notoriety after it was played on The Howard Stern Show. By the end of 2001 Afroman’s song all about everyday tasks being derailed by drug use was a worldwide hit and had featured in the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Not just a recording artist, Afroman is a total performer loved by crowds wherever he goes, and his recent tour was described as one of the most entertaining shows of 2021 by News 4U Magazine.