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December 17, 2008

That'll Do, Soulja Boy, That'll Do

Personally, I would argue that it's Soulja Boy's aggressive glorification of unrestrained materialism that's the most damaging to his young fans. That, and videos in which he challenges his friends to drink fatal amounts of Patron for cash (removed by user). But we can talk about that tomorrow, or when Arab dies of alcohol poisoning, whichever comes first. For now, I think we should acknowledge that it's actually pretty great of him to embrace the responsibility that comes with having people look up to you, even if it's insane that anyone looks up to you. Despite the fact that everything, including biology, suggests that Soulja Boy is a child, he happened to man up on this one. Nicely played, Soujla Boy.

Now if you could only be as good at music as you are at issuing heartfelt statements of apology to parents!

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TalbainJ

"Kids look up to me"

Yeah, when you're super-manning them.

You ho.

Posted by: TalbainJ profile link at 12/17/08 6:05 PM | Reply
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A lot of kids want to be like Soulja Boy?
God help us all...

Posted by: y at 12/17/08 10:39 PM | Reply
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The way he says that parents bring their kids to him to tell him that they look up to him makes me think that people are thrusting kids in his face politician-style. And that his raps are all going to be about eating your vegetables from now on.

Posted by: Chadams at 12/17/08 11:16 PM | Reply
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wait. does this mean there'll be no more supermanning/supersoaking that ho?

he just needs to get back to internet video dance instruction roots.

Posted by: hillary_b at 12/18/08 1:50 AM | Reply
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I was going to make a comment about how his name is now Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, but that gets into "Puff Daddy? P-Diddy? Which is it?" territory. CANCELED.

Posted by: tps12 at 12/18/08 12:22 PM | Reply
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