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lyrical gangsters

The Top Five Lines From Soulja Boy's New New Single

Soulja Boy's third new song of the past week is "Go Hard," a boast that manages to dis Kanye West, refer to any other MCs out there as "ninja turtles," and not use the "Crank That" steel-drum beat during its entire two minutes and 43 seconds. Helpfully, Soulja Boy has cut and pasted the lyrics in the YouTube "about" box, and, well, between reading these words and listening to Tokio Hotel, I'm starting to wonder just what this world is going to be like when I hit retirement age. In case you don't want to stream the entire song, I've listed the five "best" lines from the track after the jump. More »

12:45 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
992 views, 9 comments

Latest by null: "Throw my balls at yo girl she call me payton manning." more »

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Soulja Boy Is Not Wasting Any Time In His Quest To To Shake That "One-Hit Wonder" Tag

Apparently the call-out research on "iDance," Soulja Boy's last new single (you may remember it from, um, Friday), rushed in over the weekend and was overwhelmingly negative, because the tenacious young MC has already put out his next new single, "She Gotta Donk." Soulja Boy seems to be going the "When in doubt, sing about women with nice asses over a really sparse beat" route on his new track, a decision that will no doubt cause a lecture from 50 Cent to be sent his way soon. [OnSmash via ProHipHop]

1:45 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
150 views, 6 comments

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advance warnings

Four Items Of Note About Soulja Boy's New Single

• The song is called "iDance." Not "I Dance." (And the album it's on will be called iSouljaBoy, not, as I thought when I was told about it last night, I, Soulja Boy. The latter sounds a lot more majestic, I have to say.)
• The kids now use "YouTube" as a verb. Given that the song's title is spelled "iDance," I'm guessing that S.B. means to also say "iYouTube," a bit of grammatically horrifying cross-purpose branding that is no doubt already giving Apple and Google's marketing teams a collective iHeadache.
• The song features the line "guess who's not a one-hit wonder." Yooooooouuu keep telling yourself that, kid.
• But it's pretty much just an electro remix of "Crank That," complete with steel-drum beat, "Yoouuuuuuu"s, and references to Supermanning that ho. [YouTube]

3:15 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
414 views, 7 comments

Latest by Lawson: isn't it great that someone can basically create an entire career from pop culture detritus and one great hook. seriously. more »

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Soulja Boyz II Men: From Jokey "Bad Idea" To Jokey, Slightly Better Idea

Those of you who enjoyed the snippet of Soulja Boyz II Men that was in the Real's "Failed Ideas In Hip-Hop" video earlier this week may be thrilled to know that the comedy duo has come up with a puppetry-employing video for the track—and while, like many mashups, the song falls apart a bit on the verses, the chorus, and the thought bubbles employed by the various characters, more than make up for that cacophony. [The Real] More »

4:00 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
129 views, Comment

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Soulja Boyz II Men: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

This video of "failed ideas in hip-hop" has its moments—the RickRossRoll being one that some enterprising YouTuber should seize upon immediately—but the last 30 seconds, which are taken over by an unholy wedding between "Crank That" and "End Of The Road," may be the most sublime sound-collision I've heard since Marnie Stern got her fretwork in Lil Mama's pot of lip gloss. [YouTube]

10:30 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
339 views, 4 comments

Soulja Boy has said "YAHHH TRICK YAHHH" to his 21 & Under Tour—which also featured Lil Mama and Tiffany Evans—so the ringtone rapper can "work on his new album," or so his people claim. So, what do you think: Is "working on his album" code for "watching his YouTube hits add up so he can add a new freestyle to it the second his view-odometer rolls over to 500,000" or "avoiding future assassination attempts"? [Backstage Pass]

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yoooouuuuu did it

Soulja Boy's Potential Assassin Finds Supporters In Local Comment Section

By now you've probably heard the story of the 12-year-old kid who tried to kill Soulja Boy by throwing a rock through his tour bus when it was parked outside a hotel in Bloomington, Ill., and how, when confronted by the police about his crime, the rascal simply replied "I hate Soulja Boy." Instead of the finger-wagging and "what about the children" mau-mauing that a crime incorporating both vandalism and a preteen's murderous impulses might normally attract from a Web site's comments section, this news elicited quite a few "go on, get 'im!" responses from readers of the local paper: More »

10:30 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
647 views, 4 comments

Latest by Bob Loblaw: @Maura: I'm pretty sure the Hurried_Hwife was using "lik'em" as an homage to Soulja Boy's "tell'em," which makes her my favorite 60-something since Jeanne Bice. more »

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Soulja Boy-Related Instructional Videos Branch Out Into Song-Creation Tutorials

Do you want to write a song as catchy as Soulja Boy's "Crank That," one that will lead you to a life of making YouTube dance-lesson videos, being chased around by mini-yous, and helming sneaker lines from the comfort of your own bedroom? The above video has step-by-step instructions on how to re-create the inescapable song's beat using the audio-editing program Acid, and there's even a sound pack to assist those budding Soulja Boys and Girls on the path toward ringtone stardom. NB: The first person to put their version of "Crank That" together with either the theme to Super Mario Bros. or one of the Mario Paint tracks Jess unearthed Friday gets an official Idolator cookie, or at least a "YAHH TRICK YAHHH" from me. [YouTube via Notes From A Different Kitchen]

4:00 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
148 views, 3 comments

Latest by Defenestrated: That mario paint thing reminds me of something your little sister blog Kotaku posted a while ago, dunno if you you guys caught it or not, but I just had to go back and watch it... and it's still awesome. [kotaku.com] more »

bedroom entrepreneurship

Soulja Boy's Newest Venture Inspires Many IMs Consisting Solely Of The Word "Shooooooooeeeeeeesssss"

So Soulja Boy's personal line of kicks are going to be called Yums, which is appropriate since the colors they're available in are bright hues that bring to mind Sour Patch Kids, Trix, and other sugar-covered things that are really bad for your teeth and well-being. But! They're also packaged in what look to be emoticon-covered boxes, because if there's one thing Soulja Boy is all about, it's keeping himself Internet-real. Which may also be why he seemingly hasn't moved out of the bedroom where he first became a YouTube star—he knows that said room, with its photographs stuck to the wall and dorm-room furniture, is his own personal soda-fountain counter, and it reminds him of his humble origins every time he hunkers down to go to sleep. Or at least it will until he has the whole thing bronzed. [SODMG.com via ONTD]

4:15 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
692 views, 7 comments

Latest by Adam Bernard: This kid is brilliant. He knows he has 15 minutes of fame, 10 of them are already up, so he's going to make all the money he can while he's in the public eye. As wack as he is, he more »

implied questions

Would Rock Bands Be Better If They Had Their Own "Crank That"s?

Soulja Boy! He's popular. Well, he sells singles. Not so much albums. But a lot of singles! So many singles. And YouTube hits. He attracts the YouTube hits. All related to a dance. A dance you may have heard, seen, or tried to do yourself! You'd think at this point there's not a single thing left to be said about Soulja Boy and the mini-trend of choreographed toe-tapping that he's sparked among aspiring popular musicians, one that's profitable for labels for the moment but not a particularly safe long term bet for reversing dipping sales. And you'd be right! Yet that fact has not stopped the Wall Street Journal from devoting many hundreds of words to recapping the tale of Soulja Boy. He's divisive! He's reopened the generation gap! He's given MC Hammer a reason to go on! And yet despite its rehashery, the WSJ's story does raise one important, semi-new, mostly implied question: Would rock bands be improved by their own dance routines? Is there room in indie for cranking that James Murphy? More »

11:20 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Jess Harvell
647 views, 14 comments

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announcements

Mark Your Calendars: Idolator Is Live-Blogging The Grammys This Sunday

Yes, that's right—Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET is when our live coverage of the Grammys, which will be filled with the walking dead and the incredibly awkward, begins. It'll be my first liveblog from my four-person orange couch! Here's the nominee list, so you can read up on who's in, who's out, and who's up for Best Polka Album. And to get you even more excited for Sunday, here are a few final news items on the show, presented in handy bullet form:
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4:30 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
369 views, 11 comments

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In August, Soulja Boy made this offer: "Whoever Buys The Most Albums and take a picture and proove how many copies they bought and upload it and post a comment on my page or email the picture to souljaboytellem@tmail.com Will Win A Spot on my TOP FRIENDS FOREVER! You will never get taken down!!!" Yet six months later there's (as far as we can tell) yet to be a winner announced. And if this an ongoing contest, we're totally gonna hit up every used CD store in the tri-state area to make that Top 8. [SoundClick/MySpace; HT: Ethan Padgett]

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corrections

A Soulja Boy Mea Culpa

Dear Soulja Boy, I'm sorry if my initial post on your new single "Yahh" seemed somewhat dismissive. Over the last week I have come to understand it is actually the first great song of 2008. What confused me at first was its basic resemblance to all your other terrible singles, but I finally understood its unique power when I realized I had been walking around for days unconsciously shouting "YAHH!" and scaring the dog. My bad. Love, Jess. P.S. YAHHGADAYAHGADAYAHH. [Idolator]
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9:00 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Jess Harvell
454 views, 8 comments

Latest by blizzardofcroz: You had me at YAHHGADAYAHGADAYAHH. more »

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Soulja Boy Faces Life After "Yooooooooouuuuuuuu"

On the one hand, Soulja Boy's joy-sapping combo of viciously unengaging monotone flow and viciously amelodic Nth-gen snap synths reaches an irritating/inspid peak on the new "Yahhh!" On the other hand, if I was in sixth grade and on a wicked sugar high right now I'd totally be running around my neighborhood annoying everyone by shouting that one awesome "blargadahahayahh!"^* noise in the chorus over and over again. More »

12:05 PM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By jharv
984 views, 16 comments

year-end analysis

Verizon's Top Music: What Yooooouuuu Enjoyed Hearing Out Of Tiny Speakers In 2007

Sure, we're ten days into the new year, and the music year just passed has been covered in every imaginable manner, but have we heard the contributions of the true driving force in the music industry? The consumers who are keeping the leaky ship afloat? The voice of those people has been heard... through the announcement of Verizon's top ten ringtones for 2007. The list (which is, curiously, arranged in alphabetical order) after the jump, but for now a few thoughts.

THE GOOD: I suppose the good news depends on your opinion of one-hit-wonder rap hits of the past year (Hurricane Chris, Sean Kingston, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em). Maybe the good news is that there's only one Fergie song on there, and it isn't "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)."
THE BAD: "The Way I Live" by Baby Boy Da Prince, and of course, Fergie.
THE WHAAAA? With Interscope announcing that Soulja Boy hit the three-million mark in ringtones, yet had only just reached gold status as far as actual album sales, it nearly makes my head hurt to think of where the music business is going from here, or if anyone will actually be releasing songs that last more than 30 seconds by this time next year.

12:00 PM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By dangibs
640 views, 6 comments

Latest by encyclopediablack: I really, really, really hate Crank That...even more than I hate Beautiful Girls. This jackass kid walks around my school blaring Crank That on his laptop, like a poor(yet technologically advanced) man's Radio Raheem. more »

don't forget the lyrics

Googlers Want To Know: "Why Is That Boy With The Weird Glasses Singing About Superman?"

Google's year-end wrapup of search trends—the Google Zeitgeist—came out last night, and in addition to finding out that Hannah Montana fans are much more likely to use search engines than Rolling Stones fans and that people were more interested in learning about emo than about gout, the search engine compiled its list of the 10 most popular lyrics searches this year: More »

8:53 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By mjohnston
536 views, 3 comments

What Can Brown Do For Us?: Chris Blows a "Kiss" Right Behind Soulja Boy on Hot 100

Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":

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Soulja Boy Cranks Out A Lesson In Web 2.0 Marketing

The success of tribute-video favorite Soulja Boy has been called by some people the perfect example of Web buzz culminating in huge success, with his instructional dance videos (and subsequent clips like people who have learned their lessons, like the one above) being key to his success on the singles charts. Rafi Kam at Oh Word boils the success of Soulja Boy down to four points that people who "want to stay authentic and aren't currently creating ringtone rap or new dance hooks" can take away about how to find success on the new-world Internet: More »

4:15 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By mjohnston
1,934 views, 2 comments

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