Because I Got High

Afroman moved from LA to Mississippi with the mission to ‘get away from competition and sell to actual people’ and released his sophomore album Because I Got High in 2000 on T-Bones Records. Soon after, Afroman left the music business.

Meanwhile, the file-sharing software Napster – heavily used at the time to share and distribute music for free – was at its peak of popularity, and the album’s title track became popular with its users. Universal Records caught wind and signed Afroman to a six album deal, releasing “Because I Got High” as a single on July 6, 2001.

The track immediately became one of the most-requested songs across the nation, blossoming into an international smash hit. It peaked at #13 in the US, and then topped the charts in ten countries overseas.

Universal released the album The Good Times in late August 2001. It was filled with more than half of the songs from this album – “Because I Got High”, “She Won’t Let Me Fuck”, “Hush”, “Tumbleweed”, “Tall Cans”, “Mississippi” and “The American Dream”.