MTV LATE HOURS ONLY 'HIGH' TIME

New York --- MTV is joining the party surrounding the hot pop song "Because
I Got High," but so far won't inhale.

After negotiating changes with the artist Afroman's record label, the
network has agreed to play the song's video --- but only in the overnight
hours and not on the popular "Total Request Live.''

"Because I Got High" appears on the soundtrack to "Jay and Silent Bob
Strike Back" and has become one of the most requested songs on radio. The
dilemma for programmers: Is it an anti-drug song? Or just a joke for those
who like to toke?

The song begins with the narrator lamenting, "I was gonna clean my room
until I got high," and quickly escalates through a series of lost
opportunities. It concludes: "Now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know
why. Because I got high."