Brian Lynch
In August 2022, officers from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on rapper Afroman’s Ohio home, looking for evidence of drug trafficking and kidnapping. They broke down his door, combed through the house with weapons drawn, and helped themselves to at least a passing glance at a lemon pound cake sitting on the kitchen counter. They found no drugs, no kidnapping victims, and filed no charges.
But they did get caught on Afroman’s security cameras.
What happened next is the most Afroman thing imaginable. He turned the footage into music videos — a whole album’s worth, called Lemon Pound Cake. The title track, viewed over 3 million times on YouTube, turned a deputy’s glance at the cake into a running gag.
Other tracks were considerably less gentle. He rapped about sleeping with one deputy’s wife. He dubbed a female officer “Licc’em Low Lisa” and produced a thirteen-minute track about her that included AI-generated footage of fabricated sexual scenarios. He called the officers thieves, criminals, and worse. He sold merch featuring their faces. And he kept making new content right up through the week of trial, dropping a track titled “Randy Walters Is a Son of a Bitch” two days before opening statements.
Seven deputies sued for defamation, invasion of privacy, and misuse of their likenesses. They wanted $3.9 million. On March 18, 2026, a jury gave them nothing. Full defense verdict on all thirteen claims.
The trial itself was something to behold. Ohio courts allow broadcast at the judge’s discretion, and the footage went predictably viral. The plaintiffs’ attorney played Afroman’s videos in open court — which meant the jury, the judge, the deputies, and a growing internet audience all sat through extended playback of tracks like “Lemon Pound Cake” and the nearly fifteen-minute “Licc’em Low Lisa.” Deputy Phillips cried for the duration of the track. Meanwhile, Afroman — wearing a star-spangled suit with matching glasses — appeared to quietly groove along to his own music from the defense table.
“You don’t know if your wife is cheating on you or not?”
But the moment that may have sealed the case didn’t come from the defense table. It came from the plaintiffs’ own witness.
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