Did Soulja Boy Really Save Hip-Hop?
By The Urban Daily
May 28, 2009 11:45 am
Read more at Rolling Out.
“Two years ago, before Ice-T had a verbal squabble with him and white kids in Idaho went ape over “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” Soulja Boy was already a legend among the teenybopper set. Using his MySpace page and YouTube videos, the 16-year-old kid literally gained millions of fans from the basement of his Batesville, Miss., home. Sometimes, he would go as far as pretending his songs were new Eminem and 50 Cent tracks to draw viewers. And it worked.
‘I was getting $10,000 a show before I [was] signed,’ says the now 18-year-old rapper. ‘I got caught with $60,000 in my backpack at school … it wasn’t a good look.’”
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Comments (7)
If f’in toy saved Hip Hop, I say, Ready To Die.
kid needs a good investment manager and an allowance
If soulja boy is Hip-Hops savior, I say let it die.
you have to be kidding me. he is a joke. he can’t rap worth a penny and he can’t even talk write to where you don’t even understand what he is sayin 92% of the time beside the words “oh” and “yeah”! you can call me a hater but he makes me sick. don’t get me wrong he got his money and doing his thing. from a business end i respect that. but compaired to actual good mc’s, rappers, and want to be rappers, he is terrible. people kill me when they play his music. it just shows to me how backwards hip hop has got. if he saved hip hop then hip hop most have been in the pits of hell and didn’t care about spit anymore. he’s not hip-hop, rap, not even r&b. he is rap and bull s**t. yall people are crazy for buying his stuff. i thought ying yang was bad on a lyrical platform. this dude makes ying yang sound like nasty nas (not just nas, mos def and snoop all in one. that’s some said s**t. word up.
Ha Ha…I respect his hustle, not his music. Hip Hop has never been dead and if its dying because of Soulja Boy and his peers diluting the game. How a 15 year old who wants to “Superman a hoe” could save anything is beyond me.
This HAS to be a joke… Dont get me wrong,he’s talented and all… but Soulja Boy??? Saving Hip-Hop? Like Whitney Houston says, “Hell to da Nall”
I dont know about SAVING Hip-Hop. C’mon now you guys really think that Soulja Boy saved hip-hop? I would’ve felt better if it was T.I
Oh negro please