• Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    Afroman is a trump supporter.

    Im glad he won his case because fuck the police, but he still sucks.

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          For context this is at the National Libertarian Convention during Afroman’s run for president in 2024. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s certainly a bad look (and it does mean he’s a libertarian, which depending on what your own opinions are is also a pretty bad look).

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            He also made a song making fun of Hunter Biden at that time. It seems pretty clear to me he was looking to hop onto that Kid Rock grifter gravy train and it just didn’t happen for him

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    [off topic?]

    There’s a fantasy novel where a powerful wizard and his warrior companion arrive in the capital city of a mighty empire. The wizard doesn’t want to waste a lot of time proving himself to a bunch of flunkies. He goes to a theatrical tailor and asks for robes appropriate for a powerful wizard and a dangerous barbarian leader.

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      He is a low level entertainer - golf club and non-corporate commercial style work. He is moderately successful. A few years ago the police got a tip that he was dealing weed and was involved in a kidnapping. They raided his home and found nothing. His home security cameras recorded the raid and he turned the raid into music videos that went viral. The police sued him for a bunch of bullshit. The trial was last week and Afroman won the case. The picture is him on the stand. In court.

      https://youtu.be/ISe3IVBBbyU

      https://youtu.be/oponIfu5L3Y

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        omg you get on mtv in its heyday and you get called a “low level entertainer”

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            I’m old. I know of him because of the court case. I have never heard of those songs until then. The clips I see of him performing are at community style events. What’s the saying? “A man is the room he is in?”. I’d say the same thing about Styx (who I saw recently 😄). They had had multiple platinum albums but are now playing casinos in fly-overville.

            eta: I just looked him up for real. I was a post-doc when he had his hit. A Grammy nomination 20 years ago. It puts him in the same category as Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones who were nominated for their polka hit Live and Kickin’ during the 2002 Grammy’s.

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              No offense to polka, but that’s a terrible false equivalence. You’re reducing someone’s cultural impact to “award nominations” and also, “Grammy nomination for polka” and “Grammy nomination for rap” is like saying that “The academy award for set design is the same as the academy award for best actor.” The Versatones weren’t up against Jay-Z, Nelly, DMX and Missy Elliott for their award. Just to be included in that group of people is an honor.

              Sure he’s irrelevant now and has been for a while, but I feel like “formerly popular rapper” is more truthful than “low level”

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                Yeah, I was trying to be a bit funny. But honestly a hit among the highschool crowd over 20 years ago is exactly what I’d consider a low level performer to be. He plays golf tournaments and community festivals on the strength of an award nomination for a hit? Strong Verve Pipe vibes. https://youtu.be/1umEXpGHc0E

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        “Because I Got High” and, I’d argue, the videos he made that are central to this lawsuit, are not the work of a “low level entertainer” my friend… lol…

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          Lemon Pound Cake is new lyrics over top of “Under the Boardwalk”, one of the most important Motown singles ever. That is not the work of a musical innovator.

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      Afroman. He’s an American musician who just successfully fought off a defamation suit brought by police officers who raided his property a few years ago. The charges they used to justify the raid were false and they destroyed some stuff during the raid, not to mention the negative attention it brought him. So he used his security camera footage to make some music videos and made fun of several of the police officers involved. They got their feelings hurt and tried to sue him for defamation, and lost.

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    I was gonna fold to this lawsuit, but then I got high

    I was gonna take those videos down, but then I got high

    Now the cops look dumb, and I know why

    Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high