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Afroman

Solo artist Los Angeles United States American rapper, singer and songwriter

Afroman is an artist from Los Angeles. Afroman has 20 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Because I Got High”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Afroman most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.

20appearances

20countdowns

2songs charted

14stations

0#1 finishes

2001–2025years

Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman in 1974, is a rapper, singer and musician who plays his own bass and guitar, and in 2001 he pulled off one of the unlikelier crossovers of the decade. "Because I Got High", from his fourth album, The Good Times, is a lazy, loping, cheerfully self-mocking groove, and it found its way onto rock station countdowns as easily as it did anywhere else. It picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance in 2002, and "Crazy Rap" came off the same record.

He never stopped working, and years later his music turned unexpectedly pointed. After sheriff's officers raided his Ohio home in 2022 and came away with no charges and no evidence of a crime, he wrote a run of protest songs about it and gathered them on his 18th studio album, Lemon Pound Cake. Some of the officers sued him over the home security footage he used in the videos, and he won in court on free speech grounds.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Afroman on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Because I Got High	536	19	#9	–	2001
2	I Got High	15	1	#80	–	2001

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	899	Because I Got High	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century
2022	895	Because I Got High	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s
2008	391	Because I Got High	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)
2006	497	Because I Got High	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)
2004	294	Because I Got High	Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004)
2002	1999	Because I Got High	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	44	Because I Got High	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001
2001	47	Because I Got High	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001
2001	29	Because I Got High	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001	99.1	Because I Got High	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001
2001	80	I Got High	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001
2001	47	Because I Got High	The End Top 107 Songs of 2001
2001	76	Because I Got High	89X Top 89 Songs of 2001
2001	17	Because I Got High	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
2001	54	Because I Got High	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001
2001	9	Because I Got High	WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001
2001	80	Because I Got High	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001
2001	94	Because I Got High	97X Top 97 Songs of 2001
2001	100	Because I Got High	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001
2001	1980	Because I Got High	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)

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