Keep laughing, but Afroman's the bomb -- bump that. Okay, so "Because I Got High" certainly wasn't genius, but the album that accompanied it -- a compilation drawn from a number of independent albums -- revealed wit, intelligence and sensitivity. Although several strong songs appear on the album, the gem is undoubtedly "Crazy Rap." In the tradition of Slick Rick, Afroman uses this song to detail his sexual exploits with a long list of women. More interestingly, though, Afroman's choice of women aren't all realistic. Consider this verse:
I met Colonel Sander's wife in the state of Kentucky.
She said, I'll fry some chicken if you just f*ck me.
I came in her mouth; it was a crisis.
I gave her my secret blend of herbs and spices.
Obviously, if Colonel Sander's wife if still alive, she would probably be too old and nasty for Afroman to really get with her. More likely, this is a case where sex is totally about power, and Afroman is using this song, and this verse especially, as a metaphor for blacks taking power back. Colonel Sanders is the very image of a slave-running plantation owner. It is just as likely that the blend of herbs and spices was stolen from a slave who worked in the kitchen as it is that Sanders came up with it himself. Fried chicken is no doubt a Southern food, but that doesn't mean Sanders was cooking it. Instead, he has made billions of dollars without ever publicly -- at least as far as I know -- acknowledging the debt he owes to Black America. Afroman is making a little capital off of his slogans himself, stealing some of the power back by his appropriation of "herbs and spices." That makes this verse one of the most brilliant quatrains in all of rap.
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