Cyrus Langhorne
One-hit music wonder Afroman has stepped up to clear the air on what provoked him to punch a female fan during a live show earlier this week.
Afroman said outside elements contributed to him letting anger get the best of him.
“I wanna apologize for my actions. I’m enrolling in some anxiety foundation right now — I love my fans. I go early these days to meet and greet them, hang out with them. It was an early show. I usually play at night and I’ve had my dinner, I medicate and I get right. But it was an early show, it was Mardi Gras. I had to walk like a half a mile to get to the place. I had my frustrations to make a long story short.” (TMZ Live)
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Afroman also admitted he mistakenly punched the fan thinking it was a man.
“I had a guy that was on the side of the stage, he was yelling at me, yelling some obscenities I don’t wanna really repeat. But these girls got on stage and I asked them to leave, I was trying to keep rapping. One girl left and I thought both of them left and the guy was still over there hollering from the side of the stage. So as I’m playing I’m thinking it’s the guy starting [to] heckle. When people get on stage you don’t know what they’re doing [and] you don’t know what’s gonna happen next. I’m just trying to do my job. I thought it was that guy… It was wrong.” (TMZ Live)
Afroman’s rep made sure to come forward to speak out after the attack.
“This was a completely involuntary reflex reaction to people infringing on his stage space,” his rep said in a prepared statement. “It was uncharacteristic behavior that was initiated by outside uncontrolled forces.” His rep blamed a lack of security at the venue — something included on his rider — and noted Afroman often has trouble with fans coming onstage. (Billboard)
Last October, Afroman released a remix to his “Because I Got High” song.
Where the original song found the rapper making a series of increasingly poor personal decisions because of weed, the “Because I Got High” Positive Remix above takes a more pragmatic approach, detailing the advantages of legalizing weed. “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,” sings Afroman. (Rolling Stone)
“I closedlined that ol punk bitch on stage & i know whyyyyyy….bcuz i couldnt get high, i couldnt get high, i couldnt get hiiiiigh”
I wanna go to one of this niggas shows and put grown man hands on this clown…..
He has alot of white fans dude don’t fuck up the money
bull shit nigga u knew it was that girl and after you hit her you still kept playing.. lame ass dood
Yep, you could tell he didn’t care and he knew damn well that was a girl man. He turned around and just hit her and acted like it was nothing. If he was shocked he would have tried to help her up atleast or damn my bad are you alright? Nope, he just turned around and kept playing.
the show must go on haha
“afroman”-perfect name for a “rapper” that white folks love,,forgot that it use to be a symbol for black (arm) power! haha
That’s fucked up they keep addressing u as the one hit wonder
Another poor little me underserved, disenfranchised, drug addicted angry black man with an overestimated sense of self importance. How rare today in our culture..
Forgive me for this omission- he’s also illiterate.