“Remember stoner one-hit-wonder Afroman? He’s back, and soliciting pro-marijuana votes with a revamped version of “Because I Got High” that sees him extolling the drug’s positive effects on glaucoma, crime and state funding under legilasation.
Blazing in a purple shirt and sliding down a street on a sofa, Afroman raps: “I had problems with glaucoma/But then I got high/Smelled the cannibis aroma/And I got high/Glaucoma getting better and I know why” (you get where this is going).
The original was released 13 years ago and scored Afroman a UK number one, before helping him on his way to a Grammy nomination..” *
John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
*Read more here from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/afroman-records-positive-version-of-because-i-got-high-to-support-marijuana-legalisation-9799286.html
Get the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d8AuMOGx_KY
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Flight Crew Exposed To Ebola, Police Brutality, Afroman & John Grishman – The Young Turks 10/16/2014 Social Commentary
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpcK80irdQjL2m22fDj0kitogt3HAW96
Comments
He ought to be ashamed of himself for encouraging negativism about marijuana with his first song. NOW he wants to jump on the band wagon…fuck him! Both songs suck anyway.