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AFROMAN: Rolling Stone * One Day song dowload of 9,000!

4/7/04 AFROMAN PRESS

This will confirm that AFROMAN:
AFROHOLIC...THE EVEN BETTER TIMES will be reviewed by ROLLING STONE in their next issue (May 13 issue).

4/7/04 AFROMAN RADIO

We will be working a 5 song radio sampler to 114 Alternative Rock stations' specialty shows around the country, starting next week and running for 6 weeks. We will monitor the activity closely, and have regular updates as the plan rolls out. The songs are as follows:

1. Let's Get High Tonight
2. Drive Better Drunk
3. Just My Paranoia
4. Hittin' Switches
5. Cali Swangin'


Chris Stowers at JMcCluskey Promotion is leading the charge!

4/7/04 AFROMAN WEB

"Whack Rappers" is a website exclusive song (not on the album) that has started to get some attention on the internet. In the song, Afroman disses everyone from 50Cent to Jay-Z to Nas to Kelis to B2K and more... Here's a glimpse of what is happening:

From the beginning of the month through yesterday (4/06), the song has been downloaded from www.afromanmusic.com about 25,000 times. 9000 of these were from yesterday alone.

Here's Afroman's website hits/visits overall from the first 5 days of April:

Date Hits / Visits

4/01 13,156 / 475
4/02 16,172 / 430
4/03 12,324 / 391
4/04 26,854 / 697
4/05 46,328 / 1192

The song/story is proliferating through the following websites/links (a simple Google search using 'whack' and 'wack' in the song title turns up more each day):
www.gunitworld.com/

hayesay.joeuser.com
www.gamingupdate.com/ forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=10

www.rapbasement.com/ modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=817

urban.fan2fan.com

rapdirt.com/

www.real-hiphop.com/

www.fan2fan.com/

www.reactmag.com

Timing couldn't be better.