In an interview with Digital Spy over in the UK, when asked about he feels given the fact that critics have literally trashed his music since the day it hit the airwaves, Soulja Boy said:
“….[T]he media think they can control what sells. They think if they say Kanye West or Lil’ Wayne or 50 Cent is the best rapper, everybody else will think they’re the best rapper. But it don’t work like that. If the public buys three million Soulja Boy records and the media’s saying Soulja Boy’s garbage, something don’t add up…. They’ve said my music sucks and I’ve been successful without them, and that makes them mad. People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.”
This is one rare occasion where I’m going to have to agree with young Soulja Boy Tell Em. I think the media and critics right now are so out of touch with what people- not just young kids- want. I see this particularly with hip-hop. There’s so much emphasis on these artists who’ve been out for years, and the public isn’t really all that interested in them like that. Why? Because even though they may be bankable personalities and what you might call “stars,” at the end of the day their influence in pop culture stems from them making records that people love and embrace. If they’re not doing that, then their relevance fades. You’re only as hot as your last hit. And I don’t mean hit in the sense where it’s a song on the radio or a video on TV every couple minutes. I mean a hit that people want to hear just for the sake of hearing it. Something organic, that doesn’t need a push. When you think of a homegrown hit (a phenomenon, if you will) you couldn’t really find a bigger one than “Crank That” was. That was the “Macarena” for the new millennium. I don’t know that any of these rappers that routinely make critic’s top10 lists could do that.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
[...] Bryan wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn an interview with Digital Spy over in the UK, when asked about he feels given the fact that critics have literally trashed his music since the day it hit the airwaves, Soulja Boy said:. “….[T]he media think they can control what … [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
So far I haven’t heard a thing from Soulja Boy that interests me and luckily so far the youth in my family aren’t impressed either
April 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
while both souljah boy and you make good points, there’s one thing you are forgetting: the sheer fact that artists like kanye or lil wayne or jay-z or whomever is still getting play from the media is because they’ve been around for a while. i mean, ok, american gangster is no “reasonable doubt”, but dude has had x amt of albums under his belt. souljah boy sold 3 million… right now. who’s to say his next lp won’t go wood? will he be talking this same talk if/when his star fades??
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