Have you heard about the exciting saga of Afroman yet? Oh it’s good, a rare and appreciated bit of light in these dark times. Afroman – the nom de plume of Joseph Edgar Foreman, is a rapper and musician who makes music that is often fun and comical, and sometimes even tackles hard-hitting subjects, like attempting to clean one’s room but failing because you got high. He’s a good time. Afroman has been in the news recently because he was the victim of a 2022 sheriff’s department raid on his Adams County, Ohio home on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping, accusations of which zero evidence was found, and no charges were filed against Foreman.
The sheriffs did plenty of damage to Foreman’s home in the raid, breaking his door off its hinges and damaging his driveway gate and security system. They also confiscated $5,000 in cash from the home, and returned the cash $400 light. As a response to the wrongful raid of his home, Afroman recorded an album of music about the raid, complete with videos that included surveillance footage of the raid, and mocked the sheriffs who participated in the raid.
The songs and videos went viral on TikTok and other platforms, and it’s easy to understand why. Take this song, Lemon Pound Cake, for example, that focuses on how one Sheriff managed to get transfixed by a lemon pound cake in Afroman’s kitchen:
I hope all of you find someone who looks at you like that sheriff looks at that pound cake.
As these songs and videos grew more and more popular, the sheriff’s department began to receive more and more attention and mockery, which is objectively hilarious but made those poor sheriffs so very very cross that they decided to try and sue Afroman for, basically, hurting their feewings.
As you may imagine, this approach certainly didn’t help. Things went full Streisand Effect as more as the lawsuit brought national attention to the incident and its aftermath, and the video from the court proceedings just added to the eye-rollery:
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Afroman himself found the lawsuit, it seems, amusing. As he told NPR:
“I was thinking, these big bad cops … are being beat up and bullied by those little corny rap songs I made about them. I’m like, ‘Oh my god, are you letting me know that my raps are working on you?'”
The end result of all of this is that Afroman won, in a victory for both him and free speech in America. In this time of war and $5 a gallon gas and a general sense of unease, it’s nice to see that some of the fundamental parts of this country still work.
But, cars! We need to talk about cars! During all of the media attention paid to Afroman, his delightful car collection – or at least part of it – was revealed to the public, via security footage:
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What I appreciate about Afroman’s car collection is that he seems to have a bit of a theme in what he collects. This particular view shows exclusively American Iron: from lower left to upper right, there’s a pair of fifth-gen Cadillac de Villes, both sedan and coupé; a Plymouth Prowler in a nice non-factory blue; a 1962 (I think?) Chevy Impala hardtop in a lovely yellow; and what looks to be a ’90s-era seventh-gen Cadillac Sedan deVille. Possibly with a Continental kit?
From what I can see at least three of the cars seem to be lowrider-style, and I genuinely love the color palette here – it’s bold and unafraid, full of vivid candy colors that I wish more people were secure enough to rock. That green! And the Prowler looks so damn good in that particular azure blue! This feels like the collection of someone who enjoys their cars.
Mainstream car-collector culture has traditionally tended to be pretty classist about car collections like these, but I hope that’s changing. This is as valid a collection as someone who focuses on just Porsche 356s or Packards or wartime vehicles or whatever; it’s just another fascinating corner of the automotive world.
In addition to these, Afroman seems to own at least one British car – well, I guess technically German-British, but still:
Afroman’s custom wrapped Rolls
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Yep, a Rolls-Royce wrapped in a two-tone green-and-white ensemble.
There’s also this video that is written and edited in a terribly annoying way, but does seem to list a number of cars not seen in the surveillance videos:
I hope that video is a bit accurate, because I like the idea of that purple PT Cruiser.
I reached out to Afroman to see if we could get more information about his car collection and try to learn some of the stories behind the cars. I’ll be pretty surprised if he’s able to get back to me anytime soon, since he’s having A Moment, a moment that I absolutely have jumped upon like everyone else.
But I’m okay with that. This whole saga is a fun story, and it’s nice to see some cars in there somewhere. Because behind all good stories, as you know, are cars.
Top graphic images: Afroman
The Daily Show had a fun piece on this. There’s about 90 seconds of set-up before getting into the Afroman case.
https://youtu.be/rIEGz9LtF3I?si=ZX2CIOSaVa_FXkSh
He has a Rolls?! A year or so ago he was supposed to play a brewery in my town of 8k! He bailed 4 hours before the show, but still.
That gets you Rolls money!?
At least he bothered to cancel. We had a “performer” show up to a summer concert last year and all he did was hit on women in the audience and leave the singing to someone else. It was a free concert paid for by the city and I hope they got at least some of their money back.
Who was it?
I had actually forgotten his name, but I checked the list of past performers and it was Tone Loc. Strangest concert I’ve ever been to. I was with some people who were fans of his and they were pretty pissed.
And cops wonder why no one likes them. This is why.
My favorite comment re Afroman in his flag suit is that he looks “like how Americans look in anime”. I could definitely see him in One Piece.
Pretty good .
Until this LEO situation I wasn’t aware of him because I like music not rap but he makes very valid points and I’m glad he won the B.S. court case by whiny cops .
-Nate
If you were alive in 2000, you heard “Because I Got High” at some point. It was #1 on the charts in like a dozen countries.
Now he’s a two hit wonder. I love this story. I’ve had his raps about the cops looping in my head for a week.
Rap is definitely music.
There was a time when you guys even thought jazz was offensive.
TBH ;
Early Jazz (pre WWII) is usually pretty good .
The newer Jazz where there are several guys all apparently playing different music, not so much .
When my now 48Y.O. son was 12 he made me a rap mix tape and yes, I was impressed by many of the lyrics .
However, rap isn’t music, it’s essentially the same basic noise those beatniks made in the 1950’s, a very few of them had passable lyrics, why you never hear Beat ‘music’ anymore .
-Nate
Based on your initial statement, I’m really not interested in your senile ramblings about ancient music.
I was just triggered by the ignorance of your comment, not realizing this is old man shaking his fist at the sky stuff.
I shouldn’t have engaged, but I took the bait lol.
It’s a car collection straight out of Dick Tracy, and I absolutely adore it.
Jim-Bob went to Cleetus’s Skool fer Loiers. Got hisself a fancy deeploma! It costed him $500 and he had to figure out how ta make an “account”, whatever that is. They even went to Applebee’s in the big city to celebrate! They had five, yes five, stoplights!
He got ChatGPT on his newfangled “smartphone” to pop out somethin’ with lots of fancy words. Its a computer. It’s never wrong, right? Then had Jessie Sue type it up and send it!
Jim-Bob sure looks good totin’ that AR-15 but gets all kinds o’ tripped up when folks is aksin’ him questions. That suit he got from Smalls was a little small down there if ya know what I mean so that didn’t help none.
Honestly this is kinda racist, and definitely classist. None of us like douchebag overeager cops, but this shit ain’t that.
Not meant to be racist. And I’ve had to convince people from a very rural area they wouldn’t get mugged walking from their car to a sports arena located 100 miles south in the nearest large city of 140k people. Leave the guns in the truck, only the police can have one inside. Just a very different reality from the one these cops brushed up against.
Fair enough, but the ethnic stereotypes made me cringe a little.
How can you not love a garage full of cars that look like otter pops?
Good for Afroman!
I’m so happy that he had the wit and resources to stand up for himself.
Suing an artist, ie someone who makes a spectacle of themselves professionally, and who has the means to hire an attorney, is generally unwise.
Like so many other people, I certainly did not have “staunch and forthright First Amendment warrior Afroman, standing up for his free speech rights in an American flag suit, using the time-honored tools of scorn and ridicule to notch a hilarious public victory over a two-bit local police department” on my 2026 bingo card, but welp, here we are.
All bingo squares are WILD in 2026. At least this one is sort of positive.
South Park needs to do an episode about Afroman.
He sounds like he could be the long lost brother of Chef. RIP.
Afroman has some big balls taking this shit on. And winning.
Every small win counts.
Especially in these times.
Amen to that. By the time the department told him to go to hell with his request to have the damages made right, I’m sure he ran completely out of F’s to give, and made all those hilarious diss tracks while thinking to himself, “What’s the worst they’re gonna do – rip down my gate, kick in my door, and steal $400 and my lemon pound cake? F ’em, all I got for ’em is ROAST.”
In a free society, never underestimate the tremendous power of scorn and ridicule to bring down tyranny.
Ah yes. The Streisand Effect. And the guy willing to claim that he’s not actually sure whether or not his wife slept with Afroman for the sake of his insane lawsuit is just… Well if you weren’t sure these people deserved quite so much ridicule, they managed to show their asses over and over again. This might end up being my favorite new story of the year.
Also, great cars and impeccable taste when it comes to color. I never knew I needed a Prowler in that blue but now I do.
That moment where the cop seems to genuinely not know whether or not his wife was having an affair with Afroman is one of the funniest goddamn things I’ve seen in a while. It was almost a moment straight out of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Yeah that whole exchange has serious Curb energy.
To me, the funniest part was the one cop’s ex-wife, whose entire testimony seemed to boil down to, “I just divorced this jerk – why are they asking me to defend him over this when I don’t even want to be married to him anymore? If you think this is bad, you ought to see the crap I divorced him for.”
Was trying to track down a copy of the warrant and PC statement to see what was going on but had no luck. This area is VERY rural.
Their primary source of income back in the ’80s was speeding tickets issued to college students running between Cincinnati and Athens on SR 32. I doubt that has changed much.
I have heard that Adams County Gold is still the best weed in the region.
The cops are just pissed because they thought Afroman was selling it, and they didn’t find any.
I’m keeping my eyes on this… he seems like the kind of celebrity to reply to something
Amen.
Good