Afroman Aspires To High Office

American musician Joseph Foreman, better known as Afroman, looks to be throwing in a bid for the 2024 US Presidential Election.

"Can I make the biggest announcement I ever made in my life?" the American entertainer asked his audience at the Black River Coliseum during a Poplar Bluff, MO show. In a video obtained by TMZ, the Because I Got High rapper continued, "I'm running for President for 2024," he announced to cheers from the crowd.

In another video, Afroman said that he would "get recreational cannabis legal in all states", but he needs your vote. A source has told TMZ he's dead serious about his oval office aspirations. View the videos here.

Two hours ago, Afroman formerly announced his Presidential bid on Instagram. "Who better to lead in criminal justice reform, than a man who has traveled through the complete metamorphosis of the justice system? A man who entered juvenile hall as a tadpole, and hopped out of prison as a bullfrog, and is still the American Dream," wrote his Campaign Manager, Jason Savage.

Savage continued, "Who better to hold the highest office in the land, than the highest and flyest playa in the game? He is for the black man, Mexican, even poor white, all human beings that have no rights. So put down your past, and pick up your future."

Afroman was reportedly arrested in 2015 after knocking a female fan to the ground with one punch during a performance in Mississippi.

According to local news network WLOX, Afroman was performing in Biloxi, at a venue called Kress Live, following the city's Mardi Gras parade earlier in the day. Foreman was "about five songs into his set", venue owner Chase Taylor told the outlet, when a woman walked on stage. After she spends some time pretty harmlessly dancing behind Foreman, he then turns without warning. He knocks her down before resuming his guitar solo as if he didn't just beat another human being in front of a room of concert-goers.

Afroman himself obliquely referenced the incident in a social media post later that day that merely read, "Because I didn't get high".

Last month, Kanye West also announced his bid for the 2024 US Presidential Election. 

When speaking with the paparazzi, Ye introduced the alt-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos as someone "who is working on the campaign." Of course, from there, he was asked if he was running for the position of President of the United States, to which he replied, "Yes… It's simple…. It's just we're moving toward the future," as reported by Consequence Of Sound.

Ye later revealed that he asked former US President Donald Trump to be his running mate for the 2024 Presidential Election - a running mate is a person who runs with someone in a US election and is often given the position of Vice President. 

Ye tweeted out a poll, where he asked, "First time at Mar-a-Lago   

"Rain and traffic  

"Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting  

"And I had on jeans    

"Yikes  

"What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?" and supplied the answers "That's very Ye" and "That's very Nay".

Ye's Twitter account was suspended for incitement of violence earlier this month. While Elon Musk is all about free speech on his newly purchased social media platform, Ye's antisemitism has gone too far, even for him. Musk deleted a bunch of tweets posted by Ye, which included a swastika, and imposed a 12-hour suspension on the rapper's Twitter account. As of today, Ye's account remains suspended.