Afroman has been cleared of wrongdoing after a number of Ohio law enforcement officials filed a lawsuit towards him for utilizing footage from a police raid on his house in a sequence of mocking music movies.
Deputies broke down the US rapper’s door in 2022 as a part of a drug and kidnapping investigation, however the raid didn’t result in any costs. His spouse had filmed the raid, which was additionally captured on house safety cameras.
Subsequently, Afroman – finest identified for his 2000 hit ‘As a result of I Received Excessive’ – used the footage in viral movies that ridiculed the officers, successfully inverting what he felt was an invasion of his privateness.
The video for his observe ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ was impressed by a deputy seemingly eyeing a cake in his kitchen within the footage, whereas one other video questioned the gender and sexuality of a feminine officer.
The previous observe at the moment has over 3.6 million views on YouTube, whereas one other parody track, titled ‘Will You Assist Me Restore My Door’, has had greater than 9 million.
A retired deputy suing Afroman for defamation testified he doesn’t know why the rapper nicknamed him “Officer Pound Cake,” so Afroman’s lawyer performed the “Lemon Pound Cake” video.
“You’ll admit that’s you with the glasses strolling by the lemon pound cake on the counter?” pic.twitter.com/dj9RL8leHW
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) March 18, 2026
Seven sheriff’s deputies sued him for defamation following the discharge of the movies, however a jury has now sided with the colorful rapper after a quick three-day trial.
“We did it America! Yeah! We did it! Freedom of speech!” Afroman yelled outdoors the Ohio courtroom in a clip posted on social media after the decision, the place he gave proof sporting a purple, white and blue US flag-themed swimsuit.
“The entire raid was a mistake,” he advised the courtroom, per BBC Information. “All of that is their fault. In the event that they hadn’t have wrongly raided my home, there could be no lawsuit. I’d not know their names. They wouldn’t be on my house surveillance system, and there could be no songs, nothing.”
The deputies requested $3.9m (£2.9m) damages for “humiliation, ridicule, psychological misery, embarrassment and lack of popularity”, however the rapper argued he had a constitutional proper to criticise public officers.
One main level of rivalry was the discharge of a track that urged that the spouse of one of many officers, Randolph Walters Jr, had a sexual relationship with Afroman. “It’s triggered super ache in my life,” Walters Jr stated. “I been with that girl since center faculty, I’d hope she wouldn’t. However you understand what, as soon as somebody places it on the market for his or her enjoyable and leisure, it’s on the market, and it’s an issue.”
Walters stated his baby had been humiliated at college over Afroman’s posts, and had come house afterwards in tears, whereas the deputies’ lawyer Robert Klingler advised the courtroom the rapper had “perpetuated lies deliberately” about his shoppers.
In the meantime, in America.
Police raided rapper Afroman’s home. They didn’t cost him with something, however they trashed his house and stole $400.
He captured the raid on CCTV.
He then dropped diss tracks roasting them.They sued him for defamation, and he received. pic.twitter.com/ODHXA17FGC
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) March 19, 2026
“Even when someone does one thing to you that hurts you, that you just suppose is fallacious – like a search warrant execution that you just suppose is unfair – that doesn’t justify telling intentional lies designed to harm folks,” he stated.
In the meantime, the rapper’s lawyer, David Osborne, countered that public officers couldn’t use the courts to “silence” criticism just because it damage their emotions.
“I’m sorry they really feel the best way they do, however there’s a certain quantity that you need to take as a public official, it’s a part of the duties of the job,” Osborne stated.
“What chilling impact does which have on the world we stay in? You don’t like what a public official does and also you make a joke, and also you’re dragged into courtroom?”
