This story has been making the rounds of the internet today so I would post my own thoughts on this. Afroman getting arrested during a concert at a small club in Biloxi, Mississippi for punching a female fan in the face on stage.

Sure enough, Afroman’s lawyers tried to play the innocent victim in all of this by blaming lack of security at the concert.

http://www.metalinjection.net/around-the-interwebs/afroman-arrested-after-punching-a-woman-for-interrupting-his-solo

Yeah, I know that idiots out there are gonna blame the girl and say a bunch of bullshit that she shouldn’t have went up there to invade his space and all that crap ’cause that’s how “cliques” work.

In my opinion, it’s never cool for musicians go violent on their own fanbase.

At concerts, the artists or the bands usually allow fans to dance up on stage with them. Happens all of the time at small clubs and large venues. All bands & artists are different, ya know what I mean? Some bands & artists are appreciative of their fans dancing on stage with them and some are not.

To the bands & artists who don’t allow fans to dance on stage with them, I think it’s because their egos are just so huge that they think they are way more important than the fans. It’s like them saying, “I’m so important, they don’t deserve to dance with me”. That kind of thing.

This girl at the Afroman concert was completely harmless. She wasn’t violent toward Afroman. She didn’t hit him or try to kill him or anything, she just wanted to have a good time and she wanted to show his love for him like what all fans do to treat their favorite artists.

After that incident, I’m sure she’s heartbroken now, though. She’s probably gonna throw his CD’s in the trash and never go to a concert of his ever again — in other words, she’s gonna boycott his music probably.

All bands & artists are different with their fanbase. Some bands & artists are great with their fanbase and some are lousy with them. Turns out that Afroman is horrible with his fanbase. His lawyers will never admit it ’cause that’s what lawyers are paid to do. They’re paid to make their clients look good.

What Afroman did here was inappropriate and wrong. Violence is never the answer.

Kev