Afroman has spoken out against the cops who raided his home after he was found not guilty of defaming them last month.
In a new interview with Andrew Callaghan, the rapper (real name Joseph Foreman) discussed the 2022 raid on his home by Ohio deputies, as well as the fallout over using their likeness in music videos and merchandise following the incident.
Afroman's home was raided by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in August 2022 in connection with a warrant on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping. The 51-year-old not only criticized the circumstances of the search itself, but claimed that an estimated hundreds of dollars' worth of cash was missing when he attempted to retrieve the temporarily seized funds.
"I’ve seen homicide detective walk up to the guy they’re about to arrest, gun in holster, clipboards down by their leg. 'Hey man, you need to come with us downtown, man.' We got to talk.' They don't run up to a dude like they did me," Afroman said in his new interview with Callaghan, sharing that he felt there was an excessive use of force on display during the raid on his house.
He then compared the raid to the Diddy raids of 2024, when the disgraced music mogul's Los Angeles and Miami homes were the subject of searches in connection to sex trafficking allegations.
"Like they did all that stuff to Puff Daddy. They brought the tanks. They brought all that stuff right?" he recalled. "Did they have to do that to arrest him? No. They walked up to him in the hotel like, 'How you doing? Let's go.' He like, 'Okay, buddy.' So all that shit was for show. That was intimidation. That's bullying."
Declaring the deputies who raided his home as bullies, Afroman then explained that he decided to hit back by playing "the bully game" himself, sharing several mockery-focused songs and accompanying music videos comprised of surveillance footage of the officers raiding his home.
"They was trying to intimidate and bully me," he said. "So I was ready to play the bully game with them. And then they lost the bully game with all their AR-15s and Beetle Bailey helmets, and battle shields."
He continued: "Who is the biggest pussies in court crying about their feelings hurt? Is it the rapper that don't got nothing but some dirty rap songs, or is the big bad boys with the AR-15s? Who's crying? I realized they was bullying me; so I bullied them back."
The sheriff’s deputies had claimed Afroman used their likenesses without permission in the aforementioned music videos, and so took the rapper to court earlier this year — and lost.
During the trial, sheriff's deputy Lisa Phillips began crying on the stand while watching "Licc’em Low Lisa," one of the videos that mocked her. Discussing Phillips in his new interview, Afroman said he believed her tears were "fake."
"I’m not trying to bully her," he explained. "Those tears are fake. She wasn't — She's playing a tough guy. Let's cut the crap. We playing this equality game. We going to say men and women are equal, right? Okay. Lisa is equivalent to a man. Hey man, this ain't no time to be crying."
You wasn't crying when you was in my yard with that AR-15, man," the "Because I Got High" hitmaker continued. " Equal person. Now you want to play your female card and with your face facing the jury. I ain't mad at her."
He added: "You know what a what a woman cop reminds me of? They remind me of a quarterback. He's a big bad football player until he's about to get tackled. Then he slides. He puts his dress on and he slides."
Afroman also taunted the officers that raided his home on his 2023 album, Lemon Pound Cake, which included the titular track and "Will You Help Me Repair My Door?"
