Posted on 03/20/2026 7:36:14 PM PDT by Morgana
ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio -- The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home.
"We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!" the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. He later posted the clip to social media.
The case tested the limits of parody and the license artists can take in social commentary directed at public figures. The deputies, collectively, sought nearly $4 million in damages.
"No reasonable person would expect a police officer not to be criticized. They've been called names before," defense lawyer David Osborne said in closing arguments for the rapper and comedian, known for his breakout 2000 hit, "Because I Got High."
The Adams County deputies said they were publicly harassed over the viral videos, which were viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube. The videos show rifle-wielding deputies busting down Afroman's door, searching his shoes and suit pockets, and hungrily eyeing a cake on the kitchen table, inspiring one song's title, "Lemon Pound Cake."
In other music videos, Afroman took aim at the deputies' personal lives and called them "crooked cops" because of $400 that went missing in the raid.
"Police officers shouldn't be stealing civilians' money," the rapper testified this week. "This whole thing is an outrage."
In court - wearing a red, white and blue American flag suit - he defended his work on First Amendment grounds and said he issued the diss tracks to cover damages from the raid, including a broken gate and front door.
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“Lemon Pound Cake” by Afroman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo
The reason for all of this.
A victory for Freedom of Speech.
Go Afroman!!! Good tunes.
Very much so.
"I was gonna thank my lawyers but then I got high... I was gonna pop a bottle of champange but then I got high... Everyone callin' to congratulate me and I don't know why... Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high!"
Right now Afroman’s lawyer and fans are all getting high over this.
I would say the reason for it is a bunch of pigs broke into his home on the preposterous word of a junkie, stole his money and ate his pound cake. I take Afroman’s word for this because the pigs could have proved otherwise had they not cut the feed to his cameras and not taken his money despite the fact they found no drugs or imprisoned women.
I have been following the case on youtube.
The police were just doing their jobs; following standard procedure. There is no evidence of any policeman violating any citizen.
The confidential informant said that he had women imprisoned in his basement dungeon. A 1 minute check on his property records would have shown the complete absence of a basement, thus throwing in doubt < /understatement mode> the truth of the informant. I believe that most confidential informants merely parrot what the police tell them to say in order to get warrants. If I'm on the jury and I hear "confidential informant" I would replace it with "paid liar".
Now, on the other hand, Afroman was publicly accusing one of the cops of pedophilia. If he had stuck to ridiculing the raid, questioning the $400 discrepancy between the police inventory and the money returned and showing off the damage done breaking into his house I would have been fully on his side. But I would count his pedophilia accusation as both slander and libel unless he had something to back it up.
Is that why the cops stormed his house? A junkie said he had drugs and kidnapped hostages in it? Jeez.
Yep.
Agreed.
And the jackboot lickers and leather polishers are crying like bastards and clutching their pearls.
“Is that why the cops stormed his house? A junkie said he had drugs and kidnapped hostages in it? Jeez.”
Yes! Some junkie.
49 seconds into Afroman’s song you see her mugshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8Ee6pcXvQ
“Rapper Afroman wins lawsuit against police over mocking their 2022 raid in viral music videos”
WRONG headline.
The cops sued HIM!!!
He didn’t win, the cops lost.
Now right away I see positive comments for Afroman, “freedom of speech” I like his rap songs etc.
As usual you people with your knee JERK reactions to something that you know NOTHING about.
I watched the ENTIRE trial. DID YOU? NO! You have no idea what this POS said and made fake videos about a female cop and other cops wives. Stating directly that one of the cops was a pedophile. I can not put anything that POS said or showed on FR because it is so filthy that I would immediately get zotted.
He put his disgusting, totally untrue videos on every social media platform out there, over and over again for a few YEARS! How a jury didn’t award MILLIONS to those officers I don’t understand.
SHAME on anyone supporting Afroman.
There are no participation trophies here. For one side to lose the other side wins. AFROMAN won, the COPS lost. Deal with it.
...I don’t understand.
Clearly.
Guess the jury knew the cops better then you.
And yes, I watched the trial.
Instead of throwing their money at the shyster lawyer, they should have paid to fix his door.
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