Is Trick Daddy a game to you?I mean, dude even had an album called "www.souljaboytellem.com." - can anyone be any more internet?
Is Trick Daddy a game to you?I mean, dude even had an album called "www.souljaboytellem.com." - can anyone be any more internet?
Fr soulja ran shit from 07 - 09.
I mean, dude even had an album called "www.souljaboytellem.com." - can anyone be any more internet?
All straight facts.I agree with this completely unironically. Soulja started doing his thing underground around the same time Lil B was getting his first gigs with The Pack, but prison put The Pack on hold for a bit and they were only coasting on local fame until "Vans" hit it big.
Soulja had a bigger public persona first and helped Lil B get solo attention, no doubt, but that Lil B tweet quoted above where Lil B says that Soulja stole his swag is totally true, as after their collab mixtape together Soulja started cribbing Lil B's style of rapping and some of his producers (IE: Clams Casino, who with Lil B in 2009 made "I'm God" which is generally considered to be the first legit Cloud Rap song to get eyes on it, tho obviously some like Viper had done the sound before, and it was very much born out of the Memphis Underground and Screwed & Chopped scene of the 90s). ((I may be fuzzy on some of these dates tho, so lemme know if I'm tripping))
Soulja had some online presence, and his P2P moves were smart as hell, but his actual presence was nothing like Lil B, who used the internet unlike any other rapper at the time, making 100s of MySpace pages just to get more storage space and attention out of sheer willpower and his INSANE Twitter presence and activity level which is totally replicated by even just normal ass celebrities nowadays to try to seem more relatable, plus his willingness to rap over anything and everything pre-dates a lot of the more experimental choices we see a lot of people take nowadays.
And don't even get me started on some of Lil B's flows and adlib style, which have absolutely been stolen by dudes like Migos, and respectfully used by dudes like Vince Staples.
Lil B is STUPID influential and people are never going to give him that credit on a mainstream level because he's just too weird. That's just my two cents, of course, but I strongly believe this.
I do think there is totally an argument to be made that Soulja Boy's sheer popularity is not to be scoffed at, and was more immediately influential. I just personally think Lil B's influence is more of a slow burn we just have been starting to see bubble up to the surface in the past 5-10 years and will continue far into the future.
Lil B absolutely doesn't get the credit he deserves, IMO
Something Soulja gets little credit for but I swear is also true...
Soulja was really one of the first millennial rappers to define and popularize what would later become known as the social media rapper aesthetic.
Being around the same age as Soulja, and coming up during the birth of modern social media... His dumb ass videos that were basically nothing but him talking dumb shit and doing dumb shit was a MAINSTAY on the blogs.
Anybody remember when he was dating Kat Stacks? You had to be there...
Soulja Boy was very ahead of his time. He was a tik tok rapper before tik tok. My 62 yr old father knows who Soulja Boy is but he couldnt tell you why
Dude had like 1 hit and is still somehow around. I don't understand it.
Lil Jon dominated the airwaves in the south.The Neptunes and Timbaland is pretty much what I would describe as the 2000s. Especially the first half and I really don't know who can even comes close to these two names.
The ONLY Soulja Boy song I fucks with. Once them claps hit and your head "YUP" you hit the dance floor cause all the ladies were about to get BUSY.She got a donk
Watch ha hit the flo
I like the way she moooove
And the way she snap and roll
Red goin down
Got 5000 ones
Me you and you
We bout to have fun
NOW GON MAKE IT CLAP!
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I don't care if you was in a straight or queer club, if you was goin out when this track dropped... YOU KNOW WHAT WENT DOWN WHEN THEM HANDCLAPS HIT!
Lil B was 100% the first meme rapper. People are still calling shit BASED to this day.
Soulja Boy literally influenced Beyonce though, he got a writing credit on Lemonade for it.
Now compare that to how many other artists B influenced...Soulja Boy literally influenced Beyonce though, he got a writing credit on Lemonade for it.
You never heard this gem?Dude had like 1 hit and is still somehow around. I don't understand it.