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July 16, 2015 12:42 PM   Subscribe

The Influencer: A Decade of Soulja Boy
posted by edeezy (13 comments total)

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Kanye West sums it up perfectly in the article:

“He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song… If that ain’t Hip Hop then what is?”
posted by dr_dank at 1:58 PM on July 16, 2015 [7 favorites]


Is this something that I would need swag to understand?
posted by Tool of the Conspiracy at 2:12 PM on July 16, 2015 [5 favorites]


wassup to the bloggers (one of my fave soulja tunes, the instrumental is cloudy bliss)
posted by jcruelty at 2:38 PM on July 16, 2015


gucci bandanna, gucci gucci bandanna (repeat 500x)

it's weird, i never would have expected it when "crank that" broke, but at some point i became a genuine soulja boy fan. earworms galore.
posted by jcruelty at 2:41 PM on July 16, 2015


molly with that lean

i wonder if that combo is actually good
posted by jcruelty at 2:46 PM on July 16, 2015 [1 favorite]


a friend of mine says it is good, maybe once or twice a year, but not more than that
posted by raihan_ at 3:27 PM on July 16, 2015


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posted by girl Mark at 4:01 PM on July 16, 2015


I actually really liked "Crank That," because there was no silly rap section. Just the chorus repeated with that addictive dance for 3 minutes. Dancing it with other suburban kids, and watching viral parodies of it was one of the few bright spots of high school.
posted by yueliang at 6:14 PM on July 16, 2015


Proper re-appropriation of Turn my swag on by Sole Where they put my flag on
posted by Divest_Abstraction at 6:40 PM on July 16, 2015


The Girl Talk mashup of Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag" and Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" has been stuck in my head for approximately one thousand years, which is weird considering it only came out in 2010. It's stuck in my head on, I think, a primal level.
posted by elr at 9:03 PM on July 16, 2015


It's all about the anime.
posted by Bugbread at 11:11 PM on July 16, 2015


"We are numb to this phenomenon now, having watched it play out time and time again: Lil B, Odd Future, Chief Keef, Mac Miller, Bobby Shmurda. (Often, these DIY all-stars have relied on direct assists from Soulja himself.)"

Okay, I give up: I don't have the slightest idea if this article is satire or not.
posted by pseudocode at 12:09 AM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


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