{"id":228783,"date":"2026-04-12T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:41:07","slug":"it-was-a-blessing-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228783\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a blessing in disguise\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla.  \u2014 Joseph \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogafroman.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ogafroman.com\/\">Afroman<\/a>\u201d Foreman stopped by the Local 10 News studios on Sunday in Pembroke Park to talk to This Week In South Florida\u2019s Glenna Milberg \u2014 and there was Lemon Pound cake waiting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 51-year-old rapper from Los Angeles was at the Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale Beach to perform the music inspired by the 2022 law enforcement raid at his home in Ohio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you look through the lens of positivity, when they kicked down my door, money kicked down my door, fame kicked down my door,\u201d Foreman told Milberg. \u201cIt was a blessing in disguise. These were the cards I was dealt, and I played them the best I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Foreman accused Adams County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies of taking $400 while raiding his home with a search warrant based on an informant\u2019s lies, while his wife and kids, aged 10 and 12, were home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey chose not to be humane. They chose to be unapologetic, arrogant, mean,\u201d said Foreman, best known for his hits \u201cBecause I Got High\u201d and \u201cCrazy Rap (Colt 45 and 2 Zig-Zags).\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ACSO deputies did not report finding evidence of a crime, and Foreman used his surveillance videos of the raid for his comedic music release of \u201cLemon Pound Cake\u201d in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSometimes for humorous purposes I will exaggerate, but it\u2019s based on a true story &#8230; it\u2019s entertainment &#8230; I\u2019m singing. I\u2019ve gotta make this song marketable for a person who doesn\u2019t care about my story,\u201d Foreman told Milberg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The album\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/65guRv8rg6TwPqnDYKtXwj\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/65guRv8rg6TwPqnDYKtXwj\">14 songs<\/a> satirizing the raid included \u201cThe Police Raid,\u201d \u201cWhy You Disconnecting My Video Camera\u201d and \u201cWill You Help Me Repair My Door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A group of seven deputies sued Foreman for defamation and invasion of privacy, accusing him of hurting their reputations through the unauthorized use of their likenesses and demanding $3.9 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After a three-day trial, the jury sided with Foreman, who wore a U.S. flag-patterned suit to court and quickly went viral. As of Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo\">video of \u201cLemon Pound Cake\u201d<\/a> had nearly 9 million views on YouTube. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am going to start my own line of lemon pound cakes, the Freedom of Speech, God Bless America clothing line coming &#8230; I have a new album that\u2019s called \u2018Freedom of Speech.\u2019 It\u2019s available right now, \u201d Foreman told Milberg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Joseph \u201cAfroman\u201d Foreman stopped by the Local 10 News studios on Sunday in Pembroke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-228783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}