Afrobeats defends himself as officer breaks down in tears

Afroman is standing his ground in court over his satirical music video in 2022, which featured law enforcement individuals.

The 51-yer-old rapper, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, blamed the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for the case after they executed a search warrant at his home in the year the music video was filmed.

“If they hadn’t wrongly raided my house, there would be no lawsuit, I would not know their names, they wouldn’t be on my home surveillance system, and there would be no songs … my money would still be intact,” the rapper said in court.

After the raid for potential criminal activity had been taken place in August of 2022, Foreman used home security footage of the raid in music video called Lemon Pound Cake, mocking an officer who had glanced at the baked good in his home.

In response, four deputies, two sergeants and a detective with the sheriff’s office filed the suit alleging the music video defamed them, invaded their constitutional privacy and was an intentional infliction of emotional distress.

One of the officers, Lisa Philips cried in court on Monday as one of the videos was played out, as she had been the target of the rapper’s satire and highly suggestive innuendos directed at the official in the video.

Notably, Foreman has also directed other obscenities at a different police officer from the raid on Tuesday as the case continues to unfold.

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