That idiot Soulja Girl Boy has kicked his marketing tactics for his new wack ass album into high gear. You certain rappers as of late. His most recent victim is Queens MC Nas. In this video Soulja Boy makes comments about Nas’ last album which was titled “Hip Hop Is Dead”. Soulja Boy launched a massive campaign to sell 1 million copies in his first week of release in an effort to match Lil Wayne’s success. I guess he should try to since he himself said that he’s hotter than Lil Wayne and Jay-Z and should have been number 1 on BET’s list greatest MC’s (TALK ABOUT DELUSIONAL). Anyway, he was unsuccessful and sold a measly 45,000 copies which was only 950,000 albums short of his goal (LOL). Listen to the idiot below.

Crapper Rapper Soulja Boy has promised to change his ways. He’s quit swearing to be a positive role model for his young fans.

Soulja Boy, real name DeAndre Ramone Way, followed in the footsteps of the his peers by using profanity in his records but he is determined to cut out any offensive language from his future albums - after realizing that the majority of his fans are impressionable teens.

He says, “Over the past few months, I’ve had a chance to meet a lot of my fans face to face and it made me realise that I got a large fan base of kids that look up to me.

“I have a greater responsibility to the kids that want to be like Soulja Boy (and) I need set a positive example for them.”

It isn’t the first time the star has considered the well-being of his young fans - he delayed work on his new LP earlier this month to donate toys to Atlanta, Georgia’s underprivileged kids.

He’s just realizing that the majority of his fans are teenagers ???? Who the hell did he think his fanbase was made up of — 40 year olds ???

After he came onto the scene in 2007 with his smash hit “Crank Dat”, many brushed Soulja Boy off as being a silly no-talent kid that would be a one hit wonder. It seems as though that isn’t the case:

Looking like a spoiled kid forced to sit in on his dad’s business meeting, DeAndre “Soulja Boy Tell’em” Way slumps in a black leather chair at Billboard’s New York offices, twiddling his thumbs on his two-way. He’s distracted.

With BlackBerry in hand, the 18-year-old rapper/producer laughs out loud at an incoming message, then looks up at his best friend, Arab, who is smirking back at him. The two have tuned out the dialogue around them, leaving Soulja Boy’s manager, Derrick Crooms, to handle the matters at hand. They are having their own chuckle-worthy conversation via their mobile devices, and they’re not letting anyone else in on the joke.

It’s easy to dismiss Soulja Boy as a run-of-the-mill teenager, but appearances can be deceiving. His breakthrough was due in part to his Internet fame, and many consider him a Web-savvy business prodigy.

By the time Soulja Boy signed to Collipark/Interscope Records in summer 2007, he’d already garnered a huge online following from his YouTube channel and MySpace page.

“I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched,” Soulja Boy says. “I faked it until I made it. I acted like I was a celebrity. I was signing autographs, taking pictures, but I had no record deal. I was living the life of a star, but I was just a regular kid then.”

Soulja Boy then released “Crank That,” the top-selling digital track of 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which at 3.9 million digital copies sold is the third-biggest song download since such data started being tracked in 2003. He’s gone on to sell 943,000 copies of his debut album, “SouljaBoyTellEm,” making him one of the few artists to sell so many digital singles and also sell a decent amount of physical copies of an album. When it comes to ringtones, “Crank That” has tallied 2.4 million, according to Nielsen RingScan.

“He’s a smart kid,” Crooms says. “Change in the music industry always comes with resistance, but he handles it all very well. He understands this business more than most grown men I know.”The rapper/entrepreneur has been busy on other fronts as well. In November, Soulja Boy launched an animated/live-action cartoon, by the creators of Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken,” on his Web site. He plays a celebrity teenager who has to go back to class and finish the school year. Soulja Boy hopes a TV network will pick up the series, which combines animated and live-action characters, with Alfonso Ribeiro (”The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) as the school principal.

Soulja Boy also aims to branch out into acting. “I’m a comedic person. I want my first movie role to reflect my actual personality,” he says.

In addition to partnering with apparel company Yums on the Soulja Boy Block Star sneaker and a clothing line, he plans to launch a videogame next year with an undisclosed game maker. That deal, Soulja Boy says, came about the same way he landed his record deal — from the Internet.

“I put up a video on YouTube challenging Xbox Live players around the world. Next thing you know I got an e-mail from a videogame company — in the same way Collipark e-mailed me about signing me — offering me an opportunity to set up a videogame,” he says.

I’m not a fan of this kid because of some of the silly $hit that he does like his $10,000 challenge. This kid is making millions but someone needs to step in and show him how to be a man. It’s obvious that he’s already drinking and he’s only 18 years old. Hopefully someone will help guide him so he doesn’t end up another statistic.

It’s official now that anyone can get a damn television show:

Since shooting to fame with his eponymous debut single, hip-hop up-and-comer Soulja Boy has been “developing his brand” and he is keen to make a mark on the small and the big screen - including a collaboration with the new Mr. Mariah Carey.

Soulja Boy says, “I’m working with a lot of different artists and developing my brand. I’m working on a brand new Soulja Boy cartoon and I want to do a movie, and me and Nick Cannon are going back and forth with a TV show for Nickelodeon. We are trying to come up with the perfect show, kind of like The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”

How could Nickelodeon of all networks be considering giving this idiot Soulja Boy a show. This is the same kid who made the $10,000 challenge video on Youtube. To this day I think that most parents don’t understand that “Crank That” isn’t a song that their children should be listening to. SMH.

- Carrington J. Lei

At the pubescent age of sixteen, DeAndre Ramone Way was already living out his youth on a global stage with a level of success that many in the rap game almost as long as he’s been on earth, could only dream of achieving.

With a hit record, more money than he can count, a history making single with over three-million downloads and, a dance craze that had everyone from five year old hip hop wannabe’s to seventy year old suburban grandmothers doing the “Crank That” Soulja Boy dance via an accompanying You tube instructional video that has had over thirty-eight million hits to date - Soulja Boy is living the life that dreams are made of.

Unfortunately, along with the abundance of positive things that come with sudden fame and fortune, also comes an equal amount of negativity and, Soulja Boy certainly isn’t without his share of controversy. Initially, there was the surprising “revelation” that the Crank That song, adored by just as many soccer moms as it is by certified hip hop heads - had some shocking sexual overtones, and then there was that much publicized beef with veteran rapper/actor Ice-T and, most recently, a statement suggesting that he was “thankful” to slave masters for bringing black people to America because without them, he’d still be in Africa without access to his “blinging” lifestyle.

I recently had a chance to chat with Soulja Boy about the upcoming release of his new album, the beef with Ice-T and, whether he is truly thankful for slavery, and I walked away with a newfound respect for a young man who appeared much wiser than his eighteen years.

CARRINGTON: Soulja! What’s up, kid? You’re 18 now; did you take part in the election this year?
SOULJA BOY: Yeah, man. If you go to You Tube and check my page, there’s a video of me at the polls. I’m excited because it was my first time voting, and the person I voted for won so, it was a historical moment.

CARRINGTON: You’re from a different generation than I am and, I guess I’m an eternal optimist, and possibly a bit naïve because there was never a doubt in my mind that I’d see an African American president in my lifetime - were you surprised when Barack Obama won?
SOULJA BOY: I kinda knew that he was gonna win. But, even though he has won, I still can’t believe it. I’m glad that it happened, but it takes a lot to actually stomach it - it’s serious.

CARRINGTON: You started your career so early - did you get a chance to experience your senior year? The prom, graduation…?
SOULJA BOY: When all that stuff was going on, I was on the road promoting my album. I was pursuing my music career, so I didn’t get to enjoy none of that.

CARRINGTON: But you graduated, right?
SOULJA BOY: Oh yeah, I graduated. I just didn’t get to go to the prom or any of that stuff.

CARRINGTON: Based upon your You Tube videos, I can tell that you like to laugh and you’re hilarious to me. So, I just know that when you were in school, you were the kid who was always in the principal’s office.
SOULJA BOY: (Laughs) Hell yeah! I was the class clown. I was always in trouble. I was popular and everybody knew who I was so, I was that dude.

CARRINGTON: You’ve got a lot of things coming up - a shoe line, a clothing line, new music and an animated series - do you consider yourself a mini-mogul?
SOULJA BOY: I consider myself someone who’s pursuing all of his goals. I look at myself as a person who just does absolutely what I want. I don’t let nobody tell me what to do, period! I’ve got the Soulja Boy Tell Em official shoe that’ll be in every Finish Line across America on November 20th, the Soulja Boy cartoon in late November, the Soulja Boy Tell Em Xbox 360 game coming in 2009, and I’ve got my brand new album, iSouljaBoyTellEm coming in December!

CARRINGTON: Daaaaaaamn! Loan me $20, loan me $20!
SOULJA Boy: (Laughs) Naw, naw!

CARRINGTON: With the clothing line, the shoes and all of that stuff, did you play a role in the design?
SOULJA BOY: Yeah, man. When it came down to the base format of the shoe, I was thinking, “What would everybody else wear? What would I wear, what would my homeboys wear?” I just went in with that format and I came out with a good design.

CARRINGTON: What about the animation series, what role did you play in the development of that?
SOULJA BOY: You know, at first I wanted to do a TV show, but a TV show would have been too time consuming - I wouldn’t be able to tour and promote my album properly. So, basically I just sat down and thought of how I could do a cartoon that would be entertaining and funny at the same time.

CARRINGTON: That was pretty smart business. Who do you look to as a model for where you want to go in your career?
SOULJA BOY: I look at 50 Cent, man. Most of the things that I want to do in my career - he’s doing, or he’s already done it so, I look at him as inspiration to finish my goals before I get out of the industry.

CARRINGTON: Like I said before, I love your You Tube videos because they’re hilarious to me and, even though you joke around a lot, behind all of that, I can tell that you have a lot to say. Do people have a warped perception of who you are? SOULJA BOY: Yeah, man. I think people’s initial perception of me is of some kid who had a hit song and is just out there, but I’m living my dream right now, man. I do have a lot to say, but before I get out of the game, people will realize what I stand for at the end.

CARRINGTON: I don’t know if your handlers will let you touch on this or not, but all I can do is ask - Did it hurt your feelings as much as it looked like it did on the You Tube videos when someone like Ice-T made those comments about you?
SOULJA BOY: Maaaaan, fuck Ice-T! (Laughter)

CARRINGTON: (Laughter) OK, but for real. It looked like you were more disappointed in him, than he was in you.
SOULJA BOY: Basically, he made comments on me and my music and I made a You Tube video and replied back to him and that was it. I’ve never had a conversation with Ice-T. I’ve never even met Ice-T, it is what it is.

CARRINGTON: See, I’m from a different age group and most of my friends are as well but, when we looked at the two videos - the general consensus was that you were funny as hell, but you also made a lot of sense, which left him looking immature at the end of it all. Was he someone you looked up to prior to that drama or was he already an actor by the time you started paying attention rap music?
SOULJA BOY: I mean, I knew who Ice-T was, I’d seen him in the “Colors” movie, but I never really listened to his music, he was irrelevant to me. I was like, “Who is this dude comin’ out of his mouth like that towards me?” and that was it, it wasn’t really that important to me.

CARRINGTON: If you had a chance to talk to him, would you?
SOULJA BOY: No, not really. I don’t have nothin’ to say. Anything that I had to say to him, I’ve already said.

CARRINGTON: Some people believe that there is a difference in rap music and hip hop - is there a difference to you?
SOULJA BOY: What do you mean?

CARRINGTON: Well, I had this conversation with Robin Thicke and he suggested that hip hop, R&B and rap were all in one big, happy family, but I think that there is a difference. I think that what you and 50 Cent do is rap, but what Nas and KRS One do is hip hop.
SOULJA BOY: Wow! OK, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I believe that because when Nas says stuff like, “Hip hop is dead”, he can’t be talking about what I’m talking about because I just went platinum so, what I’m doing can’t be dead. So, yeah, it is a difference - that makes a lot of sense to me now that you say it like that. If you label it like that, I can believe that because I don’t speak on none of the stuff that he speaks on.

CARRINGTON: Do you have to watch your back now that you’re a celebrity and you have money? How do you determine who’s genuine and who’s looking to get something out of you?
SOULJA BOY: That always comes with money, power and respect. People always try to get what you’ve got or try to double cross you. It’s sad, but that’s just how it is. That’s life period.

CARRINGTON: So, can you talk about the whole issue with Q?
SOULJA BOY: Yeah, I can touch on it a little bit. Basically, I had a dude in my camp that was two-faced. He stole $45,000 from me, I caught him and I basically banded him from my clique and let him know that he couldn’t be around me no more, and it is what it is.

I’ve learned from my mistakes from having him around me and my entourage and having him in my day to day business. It’s messed up that it had to happen that way, but I’m glad that I learned from it at an early age, rather then for me to end up being 22 and realizing that he’s been stealing from me my whole career.

CARRINGTON: I was actually impressed that you actually found out and you handled it so swiftly, like you said - as opposed to finding out ten years from now when you don’t have a dollar and everybody around you is filthy rich. So, who are your friends now? Are they guys you grew up with, that you know you can trust at this point?
SOULJA BOY: Yep. That was the only person who was in my entourage who was the newest person in my group. People around me like Arab, I’ve known since like middle school - so, those are the people I keep around me. My family, my brothers and sisters, those are the people I surround myself with.

CARRINGTON: With some of the comments that you’ve made to certain media outlets being taken out of context, do you regret not stopping to give more thought to your responses to some of the questions that people ask you? As a celebrity, do you realize how powerful your words can be?
SOULJA BOY: Yeah, man. At first I just looked at it as me just having fun. I used to wonder, “Why do people want to do interviews with me? I’m just Soulja Boy, I’m just living my life.”, but at the end of the day, people want to know what I have to say. I finally realized that recently with a statement that I made that got taken out of context and I really sat down and thought to myself - “There’s a reason I’m doing thirty interviews a day - people really want to know what I have to say, hate me or love me.” So, now I just think about what I say more and I take time to answer questions to my fullest potential.

CARRINGTON: Would you like to clear up the whole “slavery” comment controversy?
SOULJA BOY: Basically, the interviewer I was doing it (the interview) with, I didn’t want to do it anyway because I’d seen his work before. I saw what he did to Bow Wow and Omarion by asking them all of those messed up questions and I didn’t take it seriously at all. The first question he asked me was, “How do you want to die?”

CARRINGTON: What?
SOULJA BOY: Right. I was like, “Whoa!” So, I thought dude was joking and I didn’t take him seriously at all. So, afterwards I was joking with him - and it was after the interview happened, and I got to the crib and I got all of these email blast and I was like, “Whoa!”

I found out that it was a set-up. It was a set-up to try to damage my image and it’s messed up that its black people doing that to each other. Barack Obama just won the election and we have black people trying to damage other blacks. I could see if it was someone who deserved it, but I’m just an 18 year old kid and I’m out here living my dream and I’ve got this grown man trying to damage my career by taking something that I said as a joke out of context and trying to hurt me as a person. That really got to me for a second. It’s messed up that it happened that way, but I learned a lot from the situation.

CARRINGTON: Lesson learned? Have you learned that being a celebrity means that your response to almost every question has to be calculated or it can be taken out of context - even when you’re joking?
SOULJA BOY: Definitely learned that.

CARRINGTON: Do you read the blogs?
SOULJA BOY: I get email blast from different news alerts that have my name in it, but I don’t actually go to the websites - I get the headlines in an email.

CARRINGTON: Does it bother you when people say negative things that you can’t necessarily respond to? There are Journalist out there who live for an opportunity to do what this guy did and people tend to read that stuff and form opinions about you as a person - does it bother you when you’re not able to respond when people have a perception of who you are based upon something somebody made up? I mean, I could totally twist your words around and make a name for myself - how does that feel?
SOULJA BOY: Basically man, I just live life and keep it moving. It doesn’t really bother me as much as it makes me wonder why people sit around and speak on me all day, every day. Basically, that’s just life, period. You can’t stop people from having opinions about you, and you can’t let everybody know who you are.

Everybody is not going to know Soulja Boy, or like Soulja Boy so, when I see comments like that, I just keep it moving.

CARRINGTON: Does all the excess drama that comes with celebrity ever make you want to stop and just be a regular kid, go to college, enjoy life?
SOULJA BOY: Never. I’d never change my life for nothing. I’ve got over seven figures, I’m living my dream, everything that I possibly wanted when I was a little kid - I got it. So, I would never change for nothin’ or nobody, I don’t care how bad it gets and I don’t care what they say about me, I’m gonna do what I do. I love my life - period!

CARRINGTON: Musically, what can we expect from the new CD?
SOULJA BOY: I worked with a lot of different producers and artist on this album. You can see the growth in me as an artist on this album. I think it’ll shock a lot of people, I know my fans are gonna love it - even the haters will love it.

CARRINGTON: Who did you work with on the album?
SOULJA BOY: I worked with a lot of people from Arab, Polow Da Don, T.I., Sean Kingston, Gucci Maine, Bow Wow. Basically, I keep my ear to the streets and I listen to different artist and producers and I try to produce good music for my fans.

CARRINGTON: Alright, Soulja, I appreciate you man. When is the album coming out?
SOULJA BOY: Brand new album, iSouljaBoyTellEm in stores December 16th.

CARRRINGTON: That’s a pretty big day - there are a lot of people coming out on the 16th.
SOULJA BOY: Yep, yep.

CARRINGTON: What’s your next single?
SOULJA BOY: Brand new single is called, “Yamaha Mama” featuring Sean Kingston, y’all be on the lookout for the music video and log on to my website, http://www.souljaboytellem.com/ for all new information on the clothes, shoes, video game - everything.

CARRINGTON: Alright, man. You take it easy - we’ll be looking out.
SOULJA BOY: Take it easy, Carrington.

Soulja Boy Tell’em
iSouljaBoyTellem - In Stores December 16th
Collipark Music/Interscope
http://www.souljaboytellem.com/ www.myspace.com/souljaboytellem

I used to be one of the guys that supported Soulja Boy all along because I know that most of the hate directed towards the kid came from brainwashed Hip Hop heads and New Yorkers who are just jealous of a Southern kid who made millions with no real skills on the mic. Anytime a Black man is making millions of dollars in business I am proud for him. I even felt that Ice T should have handled the situation with Soulja Boy different. A 40 something year old man has no business telling a teenager to “Eat A Dick” and then having your son to do it is just as bad.

I could never understand how in the same breath, heads will respect someone like Doug E. Fresh and hate Soulja Boy. I’m the first to admit that Doug E. Fresh is one of the pioneers of Hip Hop with his beat boxing and dancing, but what really makes him so much better than Soulja Boy ? Doug E. Fresh’s music was made to make you dance and had no deep lyrical content.  That’s the same as how I never understood people hating Nelly but respecting LL Cool J. LL considers himself a great lyricist but come on, do you ?? I don’t. I love LL’s music but a great lyricist he never was. A great lyricist is Nas, Jay-Z, Scarface, Jean Grae, Ceelo or Andre 3000. GZA made himself look like an idiot going at Soulja Boy also. Why diss a kid that isn’t even in your league. That’s like the New England Patriots dissing a high school football team becasue thy were getting propss for their great play. What’s the point ??? Oh I forgot, it’s that he’s single handedly ruining Hip Hop. GTFOH !!!! Hip Hop was in trouble long before Soulja Boy came along.

But I can no longer take up for this kid. He’s so full of himself that it’s ridiculous. Making comments like he should have been number 1 on BET’s Greatest MC’s because he is the hottest rapper in the game. That shows you that young people just don’t get it. You don’t measure an artist’s greatness by record sales, you measure it by content and skill. The way he went back at Ice T pi$$ed me off to but I guess he had the right to defend himself. But the last straw with him is the “$10,000. Challenge”. This $hit is sad and embarassing. Soulja Boy and his supporters claim that he is a kid and his music is fun and positive for the children. Postive ??? Do these people know what “Superman That Ho” means ??? Anyway, in the video he challenges a friend to down a bottle of Patron. Why is this kid in a room with bottles of Patron and putting a wager on someone downing a whole bottle ? Do you know how many kids are watching this foolishness ? MILLIONS !!! Millions of impressionable young kids watching a teenage rap star they admire involved in BETTING and the consumption of ALCOHOL. I’m surprised that this hasn’t been all over the news.

This video is one of the most disturbing things that I have ever seen. Our young Black youth donot need to see images like this. And question, WHERE THE HELL IS SOULJA BOY’S MOTHER ???? Why isn’t someone guiding this kid in the right direction. I know that someone is guiding him financially, but what about guiding him to be a responsible man. If this story was about Young Jeezy or Jay-Z, I wouldn’t be writing an article on it because they are both grown men. Soulja Boy is still a child and he needs help. I’ll chalk his ignorance in this video up to his age. This is coming from someone who is happy that the kid is making money and has been able to get himself and his family out of the ghetto. But when you use your fame and fortune to influence your fans negatively, you have to be given a reality check.

In this video Soulja Boy reveals that his haters have been making fools of themselves for months now. The 17 year old artist claims that for every youtube view he receives 2 cents and for every comment he receives 15 cents. So each an every time his detractors view his videos or make negative comments they make him a wealthier ma. Crank Dat has over 400 million views to date. You do the math. LOL.