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A win for Afroman<\/a> is a win for new music.<\/p>\n Fresh off his victory in court against officers in the Ohio\u2019s Adams County Sheriff\u2019s department, the charismatic MC has released a response\/victory track with \u201cBatteram Hymn of the Police Whistleblower.\u201d Decked out in the same snazzy American flag suit he wore in court, Afroman spends the five-minute clip detailing the entire case in deliberate, utterly absurd detail.<\/p>\n It\u2019s very much a diss track (just take out the hard-hitting beat for a janky guitar appropriating \u201cBattle Hymn of the Republic\u201d<\/a>). And just like any proper diss track, Aforman has targets a plenty, including likening Judge Roy E. Gabbert to Droopy; claiming that the sheriff\u2019s deputies stole his money; and taking prosecutor David Kelly to task for, among other things, \u201cturning to jelly\u201d during court proceedings. Is this song an absolutely bonkers encapsulation of the modern, massively broken criminal justice system? Yes. But is it also super endearing and vindicating in all the right ways? God yes.<\/p>\n Check out the clip below. And if a five-minute song wasn\u2019t enough, Afroman also released a statement in the video\u2019s description:<\/p>\n \u201cUnconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble Adam County Sheriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie Raided my house found nothing refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me Afroman for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Video<\/p>\n As previously reported<\/a>, a jury sided with\u00a0Afroman last week in a civil lawsuit<\/a> brought by sheriff\u2019s deputies, who accused him of both defamation and invasion of privacy for mocking them in several of his music videos.<\/p>\n In August 2022, police raided Afroman\u2019s home on unfounded suspicions of drug trafficking and kidnapping. In retaliation, the \u201cBecause I Got High\u201d rapper released several music videos aimed at the officers, including one called \u201cLemon Pound Cake,\u201d which included home security footage of the raid. The \u201cLemon Pound Cake\u201d video has been viewed more than three million times to date.<\/p>\n The plaintiffs (four deputies, two sergeants, and one detective) said that they suffered \u201cemotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation, and humiliation\u201d as a result of Afroman\u2019s videos. However, it took a jury less than a day to rule in favor of Afroman, finding him not liable for any of the claims filed against him.<\/p>\n