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Ay fyi all drugs are illegal because of racism. Opium, the precursor to morphine/diamorphine (heroin), was made illegal because of it's association with Chinese immigrants who came to build to the railroads. There was a lot of propaganda claiming the opium dens, establishments where the Chinese immigrants would go to smoke opium, were being being used to get young white women addicted to opium, so they'd begin trading sexual favors for opium. I appreciate how mention Rodney King being on PCP was seen as a valid excuse for beating him near dead. LaQuan McDonald got mag dumped for the same reason, Terence Crutcher, same story. PCP is anesthetic, so it can make one not feel pain, but there's zero evidence it makes people violent. However, that never stopped the medai from concocting sensational stories, 'a drug which made turn into savage beasts' With the public perception of psychedelics drugs shifting in a more positive direction. it's prudent to point out how PCP has, for no good reason been left out of the drugs now viewed as a acceptable. Some people might point PCP is a dissociative, which it is, but psychedelic is loose terminology, including ketamine, which is is dissociative derived from PCP that produces similar effects to PCP, although milligram for it is less powerful. My point is that every law prohibiting the use of drugs is there to keep poor people in their place.
I'm unable to hear this song without remembering the time this song came on the radio and my dad - a white, incredibly conservative man who was at the time in his mid-sixties - started singing along. Probably because he didn't actually know what it meant, but I like to think it's because this song spoke to him on a level no music has since John Denver died.
I was gonna go do my job But then RC uploaded I was gonna clean the bathrooms But then he uploaded Now I'm hiding in an office And I know why (why man) Hey hey Because my job sucks And RC is cool I wish I was high La la la da da da
I was going to overthrow the proletariat and sieze the means of production, but then I got high - and realized I was the means of production, and had just siezed myself to the couch.
This brought back memories of finding the song on UA-cam and having my mind blown at age 10 by the social commentary, as a non-smoking white girl from Scotland.
rodney king wasnt even on pcp, but "he wasnt following orders and was acting unpredictably so we thought he must be on pcp so we had to beat him within an inch of his life" was the cops' defense and it worked
Penne Pasta are you making fun of me? If so that's a pretty good hit, well done. cuz i did watch it and learned a lot, most of what i knew about it before then was from three sentences in my 10th grade american history textbook and a sublime song
I'm losing faith in 'The Rap Critic.' But that verse is such a good burn wrapped up in a stupid song. It's perfect, honestly. They should have worked longer on the song, but you know why...
Yeah I remember listening to this back in the day and wondering if the song was about why you should make sure you're responsible and not smoke pot all the time. Frankly I like your analysis better. Its genuinely fascinating that this joke song can be so deep.
Great analysis for a joke song that came out at the right time and had the right partnership with Jay and Silent Bob. Glad you seem to be doing well Rap Critic. Stay safe.
This song and Colt 45 were two songs I'd constantly play when I started smoking weed at the age of 14 in 2011 and I still love them,they are both so catchy and fucking hilarious
I remember hearing this as a kid, before I was taught about drugs at school, and not knowing what it meant to "be high" which lead to me assuming that he was just singing about being happy and lazy. Honestly I'm impressed that kid me at least got it half right.
A while ago, I figured out Afroman's secret formula: I was gonna Y + X But I got high I hoped that the result would be Z But then I got high I didn't receive my Z from X + Y 'Cause I got high Because I got high Because I got high (Ladada da dadada)
I haven't thought about this song since it was airing on the radio constantly, but it really does have this weird vibe where at first you think it's funny but by the end you realize the entire thing got dark.
As a recovering addict, with weed being the drug I did most. Not my D.O.C. but regardless fucked up my life. With 10 days clean I could literally sum up my life almost with the saying “I did this because of drugs.” Lost jobs, relationships, got arrested because of addiction. So I really fucking feel these lyrics.
I saw Afroman in Seattle when I was 20. The venue was super strict about weed and security would pounce on anyone who lit up, and there was no re-entry under 21 so we couldn't go outside to smoke either. Afroman took over TWO HOURS to get on stage after the openers, saying "Sorry y'all, I lost track of time smoking like twenty blunts out back!" while a good portion of the crowd was cranky and sobered by then. Worst show ever.
I was gonna make a clever comment But I got high I was gonna space them sentences too But I got high This comment will not get pined, liked, or hearted And I know why.....
We used to sing this on the bus going to and from school. Me and my friends would do it like a sing around like a campfire song. Man, those were good times..also makes me feel old
I listen to this every few years and every time im little more depressed about hov my life is wasted and hasnt Advanced in any way. So what im saying is that this song is Exactly like Synecdoche new york!
Came back to this one today and it rings even truer now than it did three years ago. But then, I did just come back to this one because I needed to reference "Because I Got High", because I got... well, you know.
You're right from the beginning. The song actually is deeper than on the surface. Also the paraplegic thing would be more than broken legs. Like, it's more that they shot him in the back and paralyzed him.
i always loved this song even as a kid and never got the outrage because the whole song is "i smoked weed and now my life sucks" and it was prolly way more effective than any psa i ever watched cause i didn't smoke until i was almost 19 and yet played this song almost daily since i was like 8 and had no idea what he was even talking about 😂
Big up to Afro man and everyone in Palmdale🖤I grew up on the east side and it was, yes indeed, a lot of weed smoking and walking thru the desert with the homies in the quest for said 🌿 herb 🪴.
Oh yes...the song that taught me what "getting high" meant. Also, Afroman was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 at the height of the outrage about this song. This dude gave no f#&%s and my Mum and I laughed so hard over breakfast.
Pretty sure the "Now I'm a paraplegic" line after running from the cops is because he wrecked his car, not cuz the cops beat him. I could be wrong though, it's ambiguous.
Honestly, my take on it is that it was never meant to be deep, but sometimes when you're joking around, you say a joke or two about something that is seriously fucked up when you think about it
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Ay fyi all drugs are illegal because of racism. Opium, the precursor to morphine/diamorphine (heroin), was made illegal because of it's association with Chinese immigrants who came to build to the railroads. There was a lot of propaganda claiming the opium dens, establishments where the Chinese immigrants would go to smoke opium, were being being used to get young white women addicted to opium, so they'd begin trading sexual favors for opium.
I appreciate how mention Rodney King being on PCP was seen as a valid excuse for beating him near dead. LaQuan McDonald got mag dumped for the same reason, Terence Crutcher, same story. PCP is anesthetic, so it can make one not feel pain, but there's zero evidence it makes people violent. However, that never stopped the medai from concocting sensational stories, 'a drug which made turn into savage beasts' With the public perception of psychedelics drugs shifting in a more positive direction. it's prudent to point out how PCP has, for no good reason been left out of the drugs now viewed as a acceptable.
Some people might point PCP is a dissociative, which it is, but psychedelic is loose terminology, including ketamine, which is is dissociative derived from PCP that produces similar effects to PCP, although milligram for it is less powerful. My point is that every law prohibiting the use of drugs is there to keep poor people in their place.
“Requested by my mum” mate, you have the coolest mum in the world.
Yo, my uncle once opened for the dude. Not all the boomers are garbo.
I'd high-five his mom. She's got a great son.
Excellent mum teeing you up a gem like this!
This comment is currently at 420 likes and it's just too perfect to change!! EVERYONE KEEP THE BALANCE DAMMIT
Mum lol
Bro “I messed up my entire life, because I got high” hits different while high trust
Yeah, sober you’re just laughing, and having fun. But, high, dammmmmn bruh
@@SatisfactoryBro Its like that part where he wasnt gonna run from the cops
Agreed
It blows your high a bit, which always leads to another bowl or five
Or right after you come down from your high
Kind of weird you're reviewing yourself, really defeats the point of objectivity
This reminds me of the logic comments on fantano’s channel
YeetJay Likes Music it’s the exact parallel
Dangerously close to “all Black people look the same” though ay?
they don't look anything alike SMH
I was going to make a low effort review of a stoner anthem, but then I got high
Not surprised that Afroman hasn't released a HQ version of the music video... he was probably gonna do it, but... ya know.
😂
Because he got high 😭😂
🎶Then he got highhh🎶
I'm unable to hear this song without remembering the time this song came on the radio and my dad - a white, incredibly conservative man who was at the time in his mid-sixties - started singing along. Probably because he didn't actually know what it meant, but I like to think it's because this song spoke to him on a level no music has since John Denver died.
"Because I Got Rocky Mountain High"
@@Betta66 Show's over, give that poster the ten thousand dollars
Your dad's knows what it means. He was probably a secret stoner in the 90s
I don’t think anybody who lived through pop culture in the 1970s wouldn’t know what getting high is
He probably thought the song was funny
The original "lazy song". Take that Bruno.
No. That would be Weird Al's "Callin' in Sick."
Fact that will mess you up
Brunos real name is Peter
@@seppoleonvervloet132 my real name is Bruno
Arguably, Young, Wild and Free is better than Because I Got High.
Take Bruno where?
"It's not like you have to be properly tenderized before going to jail" 😂
Good joke
I was gonna go do my job
But then RC uploaded
I was gonna clean the bathrooms
But then he uploaded
Now I'm hiding in an office
And I know why (why man)
Hey hey
Because my job sucks
And RC is cool
I wish I was high
La la la da da da
Bless you
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The best communist writer of our time: afroman
I was going to overthrow the proletariat and sieze the means of production, but then I got high - and realized I was the means of production, and had just siezed myself to the couch.
Of course dude. In the future robots and machines will do all work while everybody..... just gets high
Aww yo mom requested this, you better give it a 5
Rap Critic: this was a request by...
Muscle Man: SAY IT
It.
I never thought this day would come, but it finally came true.
I was gonna leave a funny comment but then I got high
This brought back memories of finding the song on UA-cam and having my mind blown at age 10 by the social commentary, as a non-smoking white girl from Scotland.
youtube was around when you were 10? now i feel old
rodney king wasnt even on pcp, but "he wasnt following orders and was acting unpredictably so we thought he must be on pcp so we had to beat him within an inch of his life" was the cops' defense and it worked
In the words of Dave Chappelle "sprinkle a little crack on him"
I watched LA92 on netflix
Penne Pasta are you making fun of me? If so that's a pretty good hit, well done. cuz i did watch it and learned a lot, most of what i knew about it before then was from three sentences in my 10th grade american history textbook and a sublime song
@@opensourceq If they are mocking you, that's stupid. When someone tries to educate themself, that's a good thing.
I'm losing faith in 'The Rap Critic.' But that verse is such a good burn wrapped up in a stupid song. It's perfect, honestly. They should have worked longer on the song, but you know why...
Yeah I remember listening to this back in the day and wondering if the song was about why you should make sure you're responsible and not smoke pot all the time. Frankly I like your analysis better. Its genuinely fascinating that this joke song can be so deep.
My health teacher played this unironically one time lol
That's hilarious.
I went to a poor public school, that would have back fired so hard when half the kids started singing along
Great analysis for a joke song that came out at the right time and had the right partnership with Jay and Silent Bob. Glad you seem to be doing well Rap Critic. Stay safe.
This song and Colt 45 were two songs I'd constantly play when I started smoking weed at the age of 14 in 2011 and I still love them,they are both so catchy and fucking hilarious
somebody should submit colt 45 cuz i don’t got the money for a request
the obvious joke to make: "I was gonna review this song, until I got high"
i always hated in the music video how he's selling "Budsicles" instead of "Potsicles"
I listened to this song on MTV even before I could actually speak English but it was still so damn catchy that it stuck with me.
I remember hearing this as a kid, before I was taught about drugs at school, and not knowing what it meant to "be high" which lead to me assuming that he was just singing about being happy and lazy. Honestly I'm impressed that kid me at least got it half right.
It's my way or the "HIGH" way!...
I show myself out...
this isn't limp bizkit brother what the heck dude
Here's the door. 👉🏾🚪
@@kleptrep94 Sorry for that but somebody would make that joke sooner or later so its better to get it out of the way and move on from there....
@@dfreeman13 Thanks!
"Walks out"
Just keep on rolling...
@@Redhatrose That's alright, I wasn't serious hence the all lowercase reply. Stay safe my dude.
I always thought he became a paraplegic because he crashed his car while trying to run from the cops while high.
Nah, he says he WAS going to run but didn't hence he was caught
@@CarmenxSullivan No. The lyrics are "I wasn't gonna run from the cops"
Yeah, running from the cops doesn't always LITERALLY mean running on-foot.
A while ago, I figured out Afroman's secret formula:
I was gonna Y + X
But I got high
I hoped that the result would be Z
But then I got high
I didn't receive my Z from X + Y
'Cause I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high
(Ladada da dadada)
I haven't thought about this song since it was airing on the radio constantly, but it really does have this weird vibe where at first you think it's funny but by the end you realize the entire thing got dark.
Just want to thank RC for bringing up anti-semitism multiple times over the years. You're a legend!
mom dukes got good taste
He’s slowly morphing into W. Kamau Bell.
I was gonna click the bell, but I got high. I was gonna join the patreon too, but I was high. Now I'm weeks behind content and I know why....
Me too.
*starts playing "Why" by Annie Lennox*
All this time I thought that the cops verse is about him overspeeding while running from cops and getting into an accident
As a recovering addict, with weed being the drug I did most. Not my D.O.C. but regardless fucked up my life. With 10 days clean I could literally sum up my life almost with the saying “I did this because of drugs.” Lost jobs, relationships, got arrested because of addiction. So I really fucking feel these lyrics.
I saw Afroman in Seattle when I was 20. The venue was super strict about weed and security would pounce on anyone who lit up, and there was no re-entry under 21 so we couldn't go outside to smoke either. Afroman took over TWO HOURS to get on stage after the openers, saying "Sorry y'all, I lost track of time smoking like twenty blunts out back!" while a good portion of the crowd was cranky and sobered by then. Worst show ever.
I was gonna make a clever comment
But I got high
I was gonna space them sentences too
But I got high
This comment will not get pined, liked, or hearted
And I know why.....
WHY MAN
@@FoxInferno13 Yeah yeah--because he got high!
BECAUSE HE GOT HIGH, BECAUSE HE GOT HIGH, BECAUSE HE GOT HIIIIIIIIIIGH
LA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
BACOCK! *afroman noises*
I was today years old when i got the skin head line. Though, to be fair, I haven't listened to this song since I was a kid
Those ad-libs had me tearing up.
thank you, really needed this
Getting high is the only way I survived my thesis 🤷🏾I'm pretty productive High
The way you took this song way deeper than anyone ever intended was beautiful and caused my subscription
Middle school classic hits
"Because my mom requested it I'm reviewing Because I got High" Sir this is among the most adorable sentences uttered. And yes, your review is amazing.
Glad to see you're still doing these, man! Been a fan since 2011 and randomly had the inspiration to see what was going on with your reviews lately.
my man, your mom requested this song to get you to clean your room
"I could have cheated, and I could've passed..."
You have been weighed, you have been measured and you are found wanton.
this review is BANGIN 🔥🔥🔥🔥 thank you so much for this, i haven't heard this in YEARS & i have a total new appreciation for this song of my youth ❣️
I have hoped for a very long time this would pop up here. Thanks Rap Critic Mom!
8:31 could easily be a bit from 2020 lmao I love it
Sick quarantine fro!
I like the "Because I Got High Positive" version that came out a while back.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on falling in reverse's song trilogy: losing my mind, losing my life, drugs
Uh
Unless Falling in Reverse have changed genre since I last heard them, I don't think that's something he'd review
@@CasaiAgicap those 3 fall firmly into rap
I remember when this song came out making up verses for it filled with dumb in jokes about our friends was like, the height of comedy
We used to sing this on the bus going to and from school. Me and my friends would do it like a sing around like a campfire song. Man, those were good times..also makes me feel old
Digging the 'fro bro
I listen to this every few years and every time im little more depressed about hov my life is wasted and hasnt Advanced in any way.
So what im saying is that this song is Exactly like Synecdoche new york!
This was a good watch much love man been watching for awhile now stay safe man
Appreciate the Jay and Silent bob in the thumbnail
Never been this early to an rc vid
Came back to this one today and it rings even truer now than it did three years ago.
But then, I did just come back to this one because I needed to reference "Because I Got High", because I got... well, you know.
Funny how his not concerned about antwhiteism ... Why do you think that is ?
You're right from the beginning. The song actually is deeper than on the surface.
Also the paraplegic thing would be more than broken legs. Like, it's more that they shot him in the back and paralyzed him.
i always loved this song even as a kid and never got the outrage because the whole song is "i smoked weed and now my life sucks" and it was prolly way more effective than any psa i ever watched cause i didn't smoke until i was almost 19 and yet played this song almost daily since i was like 8 and had no idea what he was even talking about 😂
I’ve been a fan for years stay up
Me and my friends only bump the positive version cause it sounds way more chill😎🤣
But we obviously all love the original.
Big up to Afro man and everyone in Palmdale🖤I grew up on the east side and it was, yes indeed, a lot of weed smoking and walking thru the desert with the homies in the quest for said 🌿 herb 🪴.
"This song is good, actually" is the hot take I've been waiting for.
This is great, you should look at the sequel song he did
Remember playing it for others in junior high to prove that hip hop could be fun too. 😅
Shoutout to RC's Mom, they are cooler than every other mom in the world.
No joke? This may be one of your best vids yet. XD
Ahh the memories
The "its like, I don't care about nothing man" always hits me like it's some profound thing.
Oh yes...the song that taught me what "getting high" meant. Also, Afroman was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 at the height of the outrage about this song. This dude gave no f#&%s and my Mum and I laughed so hard over breakfast.
When I was a child (like 6 years old) I thought that chorus is Goona Gunna and that Afroman is actually some weird african singer
RC on that Quarantine beard look
You've gotta do the Shapiro remix of WAP by Cardi B, it's amazing
I used to wake up with this and a couple other songs along with wake n bake, I feel kind of ashamed admitting that but I was 16 lmao 😂.
Mama RC is the best!
YES FINALLY, IT HAS HAPPENED!!!!!!! I HAVE AWAITED THIS MOMENT FOR YEARS!!!!
Enjoyed the video!
Finally someone sees the deepness of afroman
great content
My friend has been living with me since COVID hit, and my sister, mom and I have been bombarding her with renditions of this song for months.
Pretty sure the "Now I'm a paraplegic" line after running from the cops is because he wrecked his car, not cuz the cops beat him. I could be wrong though, it's ambiguous.
Yeah his reaching as usual
Lookin good RC:)
Your mom requested this? That is so cute 😻
This is what they mean by “words matter”.
Honestly, my take on it is that it was never meant to be deep, but sometimes when you're joking around, you say a joke or two about something that is seriously fucked up when you think about it
First time I heard him talk about it on that christmas video, I knew he would make a video of this song
cool mom. should do more of her requests
I think rap critics gone insane.
A musical masterpiece.
Lol. Thanks mom!
I was listening to this song on my way to bootcamp that's how long ago this was...
I actually got suspended from middle school because of an afroman song
how?!
@@fakeflowerz4643 the joke at the beginning of Colt 45
Masterpiece.
Lmfao, I met Afroman at an Office Depot in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I LOVE this song and also Whack Rappers!
"All good jokes contain true shit"- J.Cole