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In 1998, Foreman released his first album, My Fro-losophy, which was a flop. In 1999, he released Sell Your Dope and moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he met drummer Jody Stallone, keyboardist/bassist Darrell Havard, and producer Tim Ramenofsky (a.k.a. Headfridge). Foreman attributes his musical success in part to leaving southern California, saying that Midwesterners and Southerners were more willing than people in Los Angeles to experiment with their taste in music.

Ramenofsky produced and released Foreman's album Because I Got High in 2000 on T-Bones Records; it was distributed primarily through local concerts and the file-sharing service Napster before the title track was played on The Howard Stern Show. The song humorously describes cannabis use degrading the narrator's quality of life. In late 2001, the song became a hit and was featured in the 2000s films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, The Perfect Score, and Disturbia. Because I Got High was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance in 2002. Foreman joined the lineup of Cypress Hill's fall festival “Smoke Out” with Deftones, Method Man, and others. Universal Records signed Foreman to a six-album deal, and released The Good Times in 2001, a compilation of Foreman's first two albums together with new songs.

Foreman began releasing his music independently in 2004, mostly through the Internet, and that year, he recorded Jobe Bells, which satirized traditional Christmas songs. He was part of the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos lineup. In October 2014, Foreman released a remix of “Because I Got High” to publicize the usefulness of cannabis, as part of the effort to legalize its sale across the United States.