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August 27, 2009

Boo Hoo, Soulja Boy, So Sad

Soulja Boy just wants to be taken seriously as a rapper. He doesn't understand why there has to be so much hate in this world. It can't possibly be because his music is complete garbage and because even in a video purporting to be a measured plea for respect he has to sit around pretending to talk into a stack of money like it's a phone. That can't be it. People are just jealous, probably, frustratedly checking their status on the Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirt waitlist. Wondering when they will get to wear oversized costume jewelry like some kind of sight-impaired grandmother. "Finally, I can tell the time on this clown watch." Why can't you just let him be great? (I don't think we are the thing holding you back, son. Also, you ARE successful, so what are we even talking about here?)

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I remember the moment I found out 'people' actually listened to Soulja Boy and he existed in this world beyond that "do the airplane" (or whatever) bullshit like it was 20 seconds ago because it was 20 seconds ago.

Posted by: Silvio profile link at 08/27/09 3:35 PM  | Reply
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"Do the airplane" is such an adorable misunderstanding of what is actually a disgusting misogynistic lyric. Please never learn the right words and their meaning, it will ruin you.

Posted by: Clare profile link  in reply to  Silvio's comment at 08/27/09 5:01 PM  | Reply
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dude needs a wallet.

Posted by: whoa! profile link at 08/27/09 3:36 PM  | Reply
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dude needs a wallet.

Posted by: whoa! profile link at 08/27/09 3:36 PM  | Reply
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whoops, but seriously, he could probably use 2 wallets.

Posted by: whoa! profile link at 08/27/09 3:37 PM  | Reply
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Dude made this song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blruwJNpYe0


I don't even know what that means.

Posted by: Max the King of All Wild Things profile link at 08/27/09 3:42 PM  | Reply
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Um, is it just me or is he swiping the beat from Laffy Taffy in this?

Posted by: Jo Dawg  in reply to  Max the King of All Wild Things's comment at 08/27/09 3:52 PM  | Reply
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leave it to soulja boy makes the sense of hearing a handicap.

Posted by: Ron Jenkins profile link at 08/27/09 3:42 PM  | Reply
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Im not sure he has enough jewelry on. He could use more jewelry.

Posted by: Lucky profile link at 08/27/09 3:48 PM  | Reply
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He's right. That is real shit.

Posted by: Captain Boring of the S.S. Shut Up profile link at 08/27/09 3:53 PM  | Reply
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Soulja Boy just wants his jewelry to be taken seriously. Is that too much to ask (that is too much to ask)?

Posted by: Professor Push-Ups profile link at 08/27/09 3:54 PM  | Reply
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Why won't you just let Soulja Boy be great?

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 08/27/09 3:54 PM  | Reply
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More lack of self awareness more problems. This woman knows.

Posted by: apesofmath profile link  in reply to  Godsauce's comment at 08/27/09 4:33 PM  | Reply
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If he really wanted people to let him be great, he'd have to TYPE IT IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!!11!!

Posted by: Napoleon Complex profile link  in reply to  Godsauce's comment at 08/27/09 5:14 PM  | Reply
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He should really consider diverting some money from "cars, clothes and hoes" into some treasury bonds or a CD. I'm thinking (praying) that he'll need some money for retirement soon.

Posted by: Jackie Jomp-Jomp profile link at 08/27/09 3:56 PM  | Reply
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"Today I realized that I am not perfect,"


It took him this long.

Posted by: TheJesusCodpiece profile link at 08/27/09 3:57 PM  | Reply
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I made it to 'I'm in da boof wit marijuana eyez.' and couldn't go any further (medical reasons).

Posted by: spacewagon profile link at 08/27/09 3:58 PM  | Reply
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soulja boy has a few good songs tho i used to like him a lot but now hes not so good

Posted by: Josh Weezy Collins profile link at 08/27/09 3:59 PM  | Reply
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he raps like a 9 year old white girl with downs.

Posted by: dru at 08/27/09 4:02 PM  | Reply
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So much derision. Let's not forget that he is an actual child warrior

Posted by: cubiclechaos profile link at 08/27/09 4:06 PM  | Reply
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This has all the hallmarks of a great music video within the first 30 seconds: talking into a stack of money like a telephone, attacking youtube commenters and auto-focus. That's how you video!

Posted by: Brendon profile link at 08/27/09 4:07 PM  | Reply
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Upvote because your icon makes me smile with my heart.

Posted by: Lucky profile link  in reply to  Brendon's comment at 08/27/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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I need to give myself another mental shampoo after that. ("Another" since this would be my second today. I'm a firm believer in daily mental shampoos.)

Posted by: That One profile link at 08/27/09 4:21 PM  | Reply
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Can someone please explain "i got swiss in the cheese but I don’t yodel" to me?
Cause apparently I have officially now turned into my Mom.

Posted by: Detroit Dutchgirl profile link at 08/27/09 4:30 PM  | Reply
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Hi, Professor Reynolds Rap here:

"Swiss" refers to Swiss bank accounts, known to be extremely secure and private, and are often misrepresented in films and television shows as being used by millionaires to protect their riches, or criminals to hide ill-gotten wealth. In hip-hop vernacular, "cheese" is a slang for money. Citizens of Switzerland yodel, apparently.

WELL PLAYED, SOLDIER BOY TELL THEM.

Posted by: disgruntled hipster no. 416 profile link  in reply to  Detroit Dutchgirl's comment at 08/27/09 6:45 PM  | Reply
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If swiss = bank, cheese = money, shouldn't it be "I have cheese in the swiss" and not "I have swiss in the cheese", which would mean "I have bank in the money"?

Ugh, forget it Pep, it's Soulja Boy Town.

Posted by: pep profile link  in reply to  disgruntled hipster no. 416's comment at 08/28/09 2:06 AM  | Reply
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"Every day give yourself a mental shampoo."

- Soulja Boy

Posted by: zik at 08/27/09 4:32 PM  | Reply
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I like how when he pulled out that stack of cash at about 2 minutes in, he looked at it to make sure he had the phone pointed the correct way.

Posted by: avettwhore profile link at 08/27/09 4:34 PM  | Reply
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This might have made me LOL except for the fact that he is on my 27 club list. I feel a breakdown or suicide coming.Despite his hundred of attempts to seem otherwise he is an intelligent kid. If only he had guidance and direction. I just can't help feeling :( for this guy.

Posted by: Bad tings ah gwan profile link at 08/27/09 4:38 PM  | Reply
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What a special fucking snowflake that guy is, huh?

Posted by: Weeam profile link at 08/27/09 4:40 PM  | Reply
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"call me a fire hydrant, I bring the hos out." this made me LOL.

Posted by: abby r. profile link at 08/27/09 4:52 PM  | Reply
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Soulja Boy is as great as his eyebrows and his eyebrows are terrible.

Posted by: Aaron profile link at 08/27/09 4:55 PM  | Reply
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These are all ACTUAL SONGS but this Soulja character:

~ Booty Meat
~ Gucci Bandanna
~ Yahhh!
~ Booty Got Swag
~ Yamaha Mama

:( just doesn't say enough

Posted by: SouthernBelle profile link at 08/27/09 5:14 PM  | Reply
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I have heard none of these songs, but from title alone, I'm not sure I agree with you everywhere.

~ Booty Meat - concur, truly nauseating.
~ Gucci Bandanna - has potential. It's not an Ed Hardy bandanna, after all.
~ Yahhh! - maybeee!
~ Booty Got Swag - ???
~ Yamaha Mama - kind of amazing actually. I assume this is an ode to ladies who have riding mowers.

Posted by: whoa! profile link  in reply to  SouthernBelle's comment at 08/27/09 8:44 PM  | Reply
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Yahhh! is to soulja boy as Pah! is to marky mark. not to mention the fact that the music video has a claymation version of soulja jumping all over the place like a cracked out version of pong.

I'm truly ashamed that I know that.

Posted by: SouthernBelle profile link  in reply to  whoa!'s comment at 08/28/09 1:38 PM  | Reply
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Isn't his tone an admittance of defeat? Sitting alone on a stoop with only your stacks of fake money to keep you company? This is just :( stretched to four minutes.

Posted by: Lorin profile link at 08/27/09 6:25 PM  | Reply
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Hear, hear, handsome cartoon face

Posted by: whoawhoawhoa profile link  in reply to  Lorin's comment at 08/27/09 10:40 PM  | Reply
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I just wait for the day that everyone realizes that he is the master P of the new millienium.

Posted by: noahholla profile link at 08/27/09 11:13 PM  | Reply
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who's that?

Posted by: caringiscool profile link  in reply to  noahholla's comment at 08/28/09 3:32 PM  | Reply
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I love his impotent attempt to inspire followed by his runing whatever modicum of sucess he might have achieved by his insaitable need to scream gibberish-

"No one person on this earth can change they past, but every single person on this earth can start today and change they future.............BEAZZZY!!!"

Posted by: Monkey at 08/27/09 11:51 PM  | Reply
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Really, Soulja Boy? Reeeallly? I could whip up that beat in about four minutes, your video looks like a cheap student film project, and your lyrics sound like the journal entry of a 14 year old girl.


I mean, I know I shouldn't be surprised by how mediocre Soulja Boy is, but has he spent all of his money on diamond encrusted XBoxs already? You would think that he could possibly produce something that doesn't look so blatantly cheap and amateurish.

Posted by: moonmaster profile link at 08/28/09 12:09 AM  | Reply
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since it wasn't mentioned, i should say that 'successful' is a drake track.

Posted by: yom_kipone profile link at 08/28/09 2:17 AM  | Reply
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been had counting fail

Posted by: booger profile link at 08/28/09 3:07 AM  | Reply
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This shit doesn't even rhyme.

Posted by: billypilgrimisunstuck profile link at 08/28/09 5:56 AM  | Reply
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What do you mean it doesn't rhyme? "Clothes, ho's, I suppose". He's a POET. The "I suppose" give the listener a sense that Soulja might be having second thoughts about Ho's. He definitely wants money and clothes. But he's still on the fence about Ho's. Shit is deep y'all.

Posted by: d-w profile link at 08/28/09 11:12 AM  | Reply
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just to let everyone know this isnt a soulja boy song. the beat and hook are from trey songz and drake's track "successful", which if you listen to nyc radio is on every single hour. soulja boy had nothing to do with the track, this is just him putting shitty bars over it and making a stupid video.

Posted by: 3stacks at 08/28/09 11:23 AM  | Reply
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soulja boy wuz actually spittin the truth here....i give him respect now...he has garbage songs because the record label has him attached 2 strings and is using him to portray a specific commercial image...thats what this song is about...hate if you want to...haters

Posted by: truth at 08/28/09 12:46 PM  | Reply
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Yep, I'm a hater. I've got a card and everything.

Posted by: langford profile link  in reply to  truth's comment at 08/28/09 3:25 PM  | Reply
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well, it is what hater do.

Posted by: caringiscool profile link  in reply to  truth's comment at 08/28/09 3:33 PM  | Reply
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is it sad that the first thing that really bothered me was the illogical statement about falling down 7 times but getting up 8? did he go through mitosis after falling down the last time?

which brings up new questions...can the world handle 2 soldja boys? are there enough terrible beats for 2 SB's to make? is it fair for 2 SB's to beef with 1 bow wow? forget health care, THIS IS A VITAL ISSUE!! I AM YELLING!!

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