'Because I Got High' Rapper Afroman Furious at Police Drug Raid at His Home

Rapper Afroman has unleashed on Ohio police for wrecking his home in a narcotics raid he is calling a "witch hunt."

Afroman—whose real name is Joseph Foreman—is best known for his 2000 hit "Because I Got High," which became an anthem for cannabis users. In 2014, he released a re-recording of the song called the "Positive Remix" to promote the legalization of marijuana, listing benefits including the treatment of glaucoma and avoiding reliance on alcohol, Xanax, cigarettes and prescription pills.

The rapper is now railing against officers with the Adams County Sheriff's Department who raided his Ohio home on Sunday. He was not home at the time of the raid but took to Instagram with surveillance footage and images of the cops bursting into his house.

One video showed three sheriff's department cars pulling up to his house and officers running into his property with guns drawn.

"Now they get out, weapons—look, the dude aiming at the house. 'Cause I got a vape pen," Afroman said over the footage.

Another video from inside his kitchen showed officers tearing his door off its hinges.

"Good thing my kids weren't home," he said. "They finally kicked my door down."

In other posts, the officers were shown rummaging through his clothes, bedspread and personal belongings.

Afroman told TMZ that the cops found nothing more than trace amounts of weed, along with a vape pen and a jar of CBD.

"They didn't have to run up my driveway with AR-15s and all kinds of assault weapons, I would have gladly just given that to them," he said.

On Instagram, the rapper said it looked like the officers were "looking for weapons of mass destruction and 100,000,000 pounds of weed," adding, "Donald Trump calls these investigations witch hunts."

"Where [are] the guns? Where is the dope? What if you don't find anything?" he demanded. "Are you going to make my bed back, hang my suits [back] up? Put my door [back] on the hinges? Does anybody have Ben Crump's phone number?"

Ben Crump is one of the nation's best-known civil rights attorneys. He has represented the families of numerous high-profile victims of police violence, including the family of George Floyd, who was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020 after he knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin's murder conviction and subsequent sentencing became a catalyst for continuing racial justice reform across the U.S.

Crump has also represented the family of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in her Kentucky apartment by Louisville police officers who forced entry into her residence during a drug investigation, and Jacob Blake who was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wisconsin police while attempting to climb into his girlfriend's car.

Newsweek reached out to Afroman and the Adams County Sheriff's Department for comment.