Why you are hating on Soulja boy

Soulja Boy music is crap...

YAHHH TRICK YAHHH!

I hate Soulja Boy.

this video sums up why i hate soulja boy and his following. (reduced from a 3 paragraph rant)

plain and simple soulja boy sucks... ask charles hamilton

Yo....you just set back black people farther than Three 6 Mafia winning an Oscar for "It's Hard Out There For a Pimp".

I'm all for "keepin it real", but know your audience, dude... Are you repeatedly referring to the largely white audience that views Current and is presently getting a kick out of your inane rant as "Niggas"? Or maybe you are talking to the few Niggas like myself lol.

If that's the case you should know many of us Niggas come to websites like this to escape ignorance from those that might stereotype us and 'coonery' (as I believe Spike Lee puts it) from some of our own through the continued Soulja-Boyification of hip-hop and urban culture. Which makes your speech a FAIL.

Ice T spoke to a generation about police brutality, the realities of street life, and yes hoes, but he and others of his generation stood for something while making entertaining music. I don't have a Huge problem with Soulja Boy aside from him being a materialistic and misogynistic kid with no lyrical content. But, did you just compare his plight to that of the Black Panthers and slaves?

REALLY?! I mean REALLY?! No, but REALLY?!

so you know what i'm sayin???
nigga!!!

Im speechless.....

P.S. Soulja Boy sucks!!!!

he takes a 4 bar rhyme and makes it into a whole song.
Thats a nersery rhyme

So many artists are just in it for the money, mostly in the rap and hip hop genre. Lil Wayne and T-pain use that device that makes your voice robotic. Whats funny is that commercials are also using it for their jingles and it makes their songs sound like what the "artists" are putting out. Soulja Boy and these other performers have no talent.

1 drop the cursing man seriously you look grown act like you grown. 2nd i agree with calgarc he's in it for the money and its true, b/c if he was in it for the music then i wouldnt have a problem with it but always about the money, women, and materiel things there is more aspects to hip-hop than this, but people look at this to be popular b/c well it markets to people. most of these whack love songs you here on the radio market to a certain type of people WOMEN. its true for other artist and what they want to appeal to so they can earn money.

I speak English and generally enjoy this site. This has caused me to question both of those things.

THIS MOTHAFUCKA IS HELLA STUPID U DUM MOTHAFUCKA ITS BOUT DA MUSIC DAT THE O.GS OF RAP HAVE MADE N NOW MOTHAFUCKAS LIKE SOULJA BOY , KANYE WEST, LIL WAYNE R KILLING RAP N HIP HOP WITH THERE CLUB SHIT

FUK DA MONEY ITS BOUT DA LOVE OF THE GAME N PPL DONT GET DAT NO MORE THEY IGNORANT AS THIS MOTHAFUCKA WHO MADE THIS VIDEO

dont confuse profitability with talent

There is a HUGE difference between good music and a marketable persona. Please don't presume to think Soulja boy is the former.

I think the fact he is so successful speaks volumes on our society. And its not saying good things.

I actually made it through a whole soulja boy song and my ears didn't bleed. My god I feel old. Does he pick the theme of a song out of a hat? Hmmmmm, let's go with bandannas today and repeat it over and over and over again.. KA-CHING!

why is this appearing on my featured items list? this is unimportant drivel. my complaint is not to the poster but to the maintainers of the website. we rely on you to bring us relevant or interesting issues. this is not one of them

We don't like him, and also I really don't care, he is nothing more than a stepping stone so the true artists, who actually create music can show him wrong, no offense however, expressing beliefs and what not, but this Boy of a soldier is downgrading music.....

Go listen to Thieves in the night by blackstar, address the issues we dealing with in hip hop today and more.

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't want millions
More than money saved, I wanna save children
Dealing with alcoholism and afrocentricity
A complex man drawn off of simplicity
Reality is frisking me
This industry will make you lose intensity
The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I'm Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit"-Common

Hip hop music is so much more than what you hear on the radio and what you see on MTV/BET. Soulja among numerous others just demonstrate how far off hip hop has fallen. BUT! that being said there is still a handful of great MC's in the game. Just takes a bit longer to find.

There are so many things wrong with this that I am not even going to get started... good day sir... and for the love of christ... start listening to some real music...

I'm going to have to assume that this is the video equivalent of a very successful troll attempt..

Although he's pretty convincing...

gucci bandana, gucci gucci bandana....wtf???

can someone at current please control the abuse of tags here? make it go away (or at least to the appropriate places)!

voted up for a beautiful slice of Americana

(Soulja Boy is still a douche bag)

OMG...this rant is as hard to listen to as Souljah Boys Music

You have one of the most annoying voices I've ever heard and you sound really ignorant. If you have to say "nigga" forty times in the first minute in order to get a point across, then I don't think anyone should give a fuck about your opinion on anything (which the same could probably be said to me since I dropped the f-bomb, but whatever). I couldn't finish watching your video because I was having an adverse physical reaction to, well, you, so the following is my opinion on Souljah Boy and his place in hip hop.

You seem to have the "YouTube argument" for this kid. "OMG... he's making money so he's hot! You can't make money like that! You must be a hater! BlahBlahBlah" Yeah, no, it doesn't work that way. I, and others like me, dislike the kid because his brand of hip hop doesn't appeal to me and there are better crappy artists out there than him. So why would I go with the bottom of the barrel when I go with something else? I wouldn't say he's detrimental to hip hop because the genre is too large and varied to be destroyed by one lame artist. There's too much to counterbalance is pull, so that's pretty much moot. People expect him to try to be a real MC but at this point, he's pretty much screwed. If he tried to make conscious music, or at least coherent music, he'd be alienated by his fans who are used to hearing only club songs or whatever from him. And he'd be mocked and ridiculed by those who listen to hip hop with more substance because he'll always be that kid who made that horrible song and got big because he put a video on YouTube. When people start to realize that the subcategory of hip hop that he fits into isn't one to be taken too seriously, if at all, then this whole "why's everybody hating on Souljah Boy" nonsense would stop.

To answer your question, I'm not hating on Souljah Boy because I really don't realize he exists until someone else brings him to my attention. You can't hate on someone whose existence means absolutely nothing to you.

soulja boy's music, in my opinion, is horrible. but this guy is so right. Soulja boy is just promoted towards a really young audience. (yes record labels suck) but as a business man he's making more money than any of you.

Soulja boy makes little john look like tupac. He has no talent even if you call that dance music, it's still a joke. That's why Ice T and RZA are hating on this fool and I fully agree with him. Sorry but not every kid out of the ghetto can make music Soulja boy is a prime example. Sure he's making money but he's lowering the bar for talent and that is sickening. Another reason not to listen to the radio.

Untagging from News. It's certainly not "news" that people are hating on Soulja Boy.

i used to love hip hop. now not so much. mostly BECAUSE of untalented "Rappers" like souljaboy. hip hop is about the music not how much money you have. every video i see its the same thing going on with a different person "trying" to act like their the shit. its quite funny actually. i just feel bad for the younger generations who will look at this garbage and think that it is real hip hop. and have you heard the way you talk? you sound like you dont have an intelligent bone in your body. YaKnowWhaAhmSayin'?!

Cuz he sounds li3k a st0p1d r3t4ard monkey l1k3z d1$

Down'ed.

As a black man I must say, if your going to talk slang keep it off of international websites man... Aside from that, Soulja Boy gets hated on because people make the mistake of considering him hip hop. He does Black Dance Music and thats what it should be considered. Like an evolution of Disco Music in a sense. Personally I think he is horrible but most horrible artist get the attention. The NorthEast needs to regain the spotlight in the rap world.

Where do I begin?

First off, Soulja Boy isn't getting hated on because he's making money. He's making songs about nothing and helping to take away from what the art form used to be. Back in the 80's until the 90's, rap was a socially-conscious form of entertainment before it was bastardized by mainstream media. This is why Soulja Boy is popular while artists like The Roots and Talib Kweli are less popular.

Second, Soulja Boy wouldn't "rob and kill" people. He, along with 85% of the rappers in the Rap game, is NOT a "gangsta". That's just an image used to sell records and to perpetuate a stereotype. Rap is an image-based industry in music, where most people have to fit the "underprivileged, inner-city" mold even if it's fake(ex. Rick Ross never sold drugs, he was a former correctional officer; Plies was a nursing assistant, etc.).

Third, I would try to use less cursing while attempting to make a valid point. You'll reach more people that way.

Fourth, money does not equal skill. Lots of people have created new dances, but that doesn't equal talent. The stuff Soulja Boy has done and said on YouTube is not what we should be using as an example for role models. Ice T is less upset about Soulja Boy and more upset about what these younger people are doing to "the game". We should be trying to motivate ourselves past stereotypes and uplift ourselves out of a ghetto mentality so we can ALL reach a level of success we can all be satisfied with.

If Soulja Boy took his money, bought himself and other underprivileged young black men an education, established some sort of help program for his community, then I would be proud of him. I do not hate on him because he isn't because he is young and probably does not realize the ability he has to help the less fortunate. I am a little disappointed in the fact he is not bringing anything intellectual to the table, or trying to advance himself lyrically or intelligence-wise. It's the same tired old music that has been blasted over the airwaves for 15 years, only now it's radio-friendly.

Elevate yourself, educate yourself, and separate yourself from mediocrity.

Can you stop posting? Forever? Please.

dear jesus.

i lost count at 20 for how many times "nigga" was used.
Souljah Boy is bringing the community down. He is perpetuating a form of empty, non-intelligent music. Maybe he wouldnt get hated on if he talked about something a little deeper then yahhing bitches and supermanning ho's and kissing people through phones.

This is me hating on Souljah Boy.....and this video

No, I don't know what you are saying! You know what I'm saying?

I'm simply shocked.

Community College, Mister -

soulja who?

... if you were hoping to have this aired on TV the only thing the viewers will hear is Blllllleeeeeeeppppppp.

And how in the world did you get from some 2 bit musician that i have not heard of to the KKK? Sorry, I kinda dozed off in the middle of the incoherence...

Do i sound like an old grandmother when I say I don't know a single Soulja Boy song? Also, I love the webcam stuff, just make sure to think about the topic before tagging. This isn't quite a fit for the Tech group.
Thanks!
sarah

He is the postah boy of crappy commercialized hip hop.

Hey man, awesome stuff, but you really need to stop tagging it every topic under the sun. You should stick to a few relevant tags (in this case music, rap and rant) and promote it from there. When you put stuff like this in all of the main groups despite it only having to do with one of them, you look like a troll and people tune you out.

its not about money... its about the love of music.

he doesn't love the music, he loves the money. he takes regular shits on music. the only reason why he is rich and has money, is because he is profitable NOT GOOD. record labels sign profitable artists these days not good artists. does he even play an instrument, has he ever used a mixer or DAW controller

as a real musician FUCK Soulja Boy.