So Soulja Boy just signed this guy . . .

Concieted

He's a battle rapper from Grind Time now, dude is all about punchlines and wordplay. Dude's prolly just gonna be a ghostwriter for Soulja, so I'm not gonna be surprised if dude's next album suddenly gets a lil better from a punchline perspective. I'm kinda interested to see how this turns out. Though, it'll prolly be like when Bow Wow signed Murda Mook :lol: 

WooooooW!  Hahahaha!  That was funny as hell.  But thing about I've noticed about a lot of battle rappers, they never really sound that good when they're actually doing a song.  We'll see if he can add anything at all to Soulja Boy, but he's got his work cut out for him.  Soulja Boy's in the negative talent hole as far as I'm concerned.  :P

I've been predicting Soulja Boy's next album to be a critical darling for some time now. As much as the Pitchfork type love to bring up stars only to break them down, they love even more to champion the un-championable. Hey, Lil Wayne went from being the worst rapper on Cash Money to being the greatest rapper alive, and I'm sure, just like Jay-Z working with Lil Wayne, we will see Slaughterhouse on the next Soulja Boy album. Hey, irony is dead, but not for some people.

Oh, and the best rapper on Soulja Boy's label is Big V.I.P. (I think he goes by Big Hoodboss now).

I've been predicting Soulja Boy's next album to be a critical darling for some time now. As much as the Pitchfork type love to bring up stars only to break them down, they love even more to champion the un-championable. Hey, Lil Wayne went from being the worst rapper on Cash Money to being the greatest rapper alive, and I'm sure, just like Jay-Z working with Lil Wayne, we will see Slaughterhouse on the next Soulja Boy album. Hey, irony is dead, but not for some people.

Oh, and the best rapper on Soulja Boy's label is Big V.I.P. (I think he goes by Big Hoodboss now).

IsThisIt_basic

I can't see it being a critical darling...

Pretty Boy Swag got murdered by critics. If the other song titles are any indication, I'd expect more of the same...

Soulja Boy's best hope is that he sells well as young'n, like Wayne, and then keeps making music till he finally hits a cord and strikes a dope album like Wayne did with Tha Carter I some ten years after he started his career. 

Even then though I don't see this coming...I mean Lil' Wayne had songs like Tha Block is Hot and was with the Hot Boy$...Soulja Boy made Crank That, Kiss Me Thru The Phone, and associates himself with a guys named things like Arab... He has some dope things lined up for his next album like some Boi-1-Da production but then he ruins it by featuring Justin Bieber and just some other boneheaded things like calling songs POW (Even though that song isn't awful).

I don't know if Soula Boy is interested in being like Lil' Wayne, he seems to be doing well just by doing what he's doing right now and I don't see much ambition. 

I dunno, there was some song Soulja Boy dropped last year (I really don't care enough to look it up) that all the blogs like CBrap ate up. It really just felt like Lil Wayne/Gucci Mane/any other terrible rapper you can ironically like these days. Plus, isn't this new album supposed to have a bunch of Kanye production?

Really, he can make another pop rap record, or he can make some super-serious record; I don't really care, I don't see myself checking it out either way. Just saying, it would be hardly surprising if his next album has everyone's panties in a bunch.

I remember Soulja Boi was talking about how he wanted to have Kanye, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Lil' Wayne but the only one of those who's still supposed to be on it in some respect is Kanye...

Right now though, it's looking like Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, and like Ray J...

I think if Soulja Boy has more songs like Pow where he's just rapping over a dope beat, it can be a decent album, maybe his best work to date but by no means something to shout home about. Maybe like a Metacritic 50-60ish average. 

It'd be a nice change of pace though...To be honest though what people like about Soulja Boy is stuff like Kiss Me Thru The Phone and Donk though so it'd be alienating his old fanbase and opening himself up to one which doesn't want much to do with him. 

Well Wayne did go from being a 16 year old trading bars with Juvenile in his prime to a mixtape rapper with a devout following with no critical praise (Sqad Up Vol. 1-7, Suffix, Prefix, first Dedication). And he definitely got better over that time.

Wayne built a ton of hype with his SqadUp mixtapes and my friends at school were already calling him the best rapper in game during that time. Try and find a review of his SqadUp mixtapes by any critic and you will almost undoubtedly fail.

When tha Carter first came out every one of my friends had it. I remember during the summer of 2004 going to summer basketball tourneys with my teammates and being forced to listen to Tha Carter all day everyday by whoever was driving. I don't even think Pitchfork reviewed Tha Carter and most critics paid no mind to it as well. But that was easily THE summer album of 2004 for everyone around me.

As time went on Wayne kept building more and more hype and finally when Dedication 2 came out critics really started to notice him, though fans had been noticing him for years already and Wayne already had quite a following (as a respected lyricist). From the Drought Is Over 2 and Da Drought 3 onward Wayne became a critical darling and the "cool" thing to listen to... but thats if you get your only input from website reviews. Most of my friends don't read website reviews and he was already popular and respected by word of mouth on the strength of his mixtapes. I have other friends who I know just hopped on once Pitchfork started reviewing his mixtapes, but these were the same people whose favorite artists included the likes of Animal Collective, the Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian and Bright Eyes. I don't think you can generalize his entire fanbase into that category when it isn't. Sure, more people started saying he was the best rapper alive once critics started giving him high scores, but Wayne's real fanbase was already saying it when Wayne said it himself on tha Carter II in 05.

PS. and where's the love for Lil B being the best person signed to Soulja Boy's label:P

I don't know if Soula Boy is interested in being like Lil' Wayne, he seems to be doing well just by doing what he's doing right now and I don't see much ambition. 

Toriko42

When Soulja Boy starts making songs called Pretty Boy Swag it's pretty safe to say he's just copying Lil B's swag. And Soulja Boy only made 2 Milli after hearing Lil B's I'm God...

Pretty Boy Swag is a commercial hit, so it did it's purpose.

I mess with SODMG, S-Beezy and Lil B are the future *straight face*

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I don't know if Soula Boy is interested in being like Lil' Wayne, he seems to be doing well just by doing what he's doing right now and I don't see much ambition.

Orlando_Magic

When Soulja Boy starts making songs called Pretty Boy Swag it's pretty safe to say he's just copying Lil B's swag. And Soulja Boy only made 2 Milli after hearing Lil B's I'm God...

Yea, completely swagger-jacking Lil B wasn't cool lmao

Well Wayne did go from being a 16 year old trading bars with Juvenile in his prime to a mixtape rapper with a devout following with no critical praise (Sqad Up Vol. 1-7, Suffix, Prefix, first Dedication). And he definitely got better over that time.

Wayne built a ton of hype with his SqadUp mixtapes and my friends at school were already calling him the best rapper in game during that time. Try and find a review of his SqadUp mixtapes by any critic and you will almost undoubtedly fail.

When tha Carter first came out every one of my friends had it. I remember during the summer of 2004 going to summer basketball tourneys with my teammates and being forced to listen to Tha Carter all day everyday by whoever was driving. I don't even think Pitchfork reviewed Tha Carter and most critics paid no mind to it as well. But that was easily THE summer album of 2004 for everyone around me.

As time went on Wayne kept building more and more hype and finally when Dedication 2 came out critics really started to notice him, though fans had been noticing him for years already and Wayne already had quite a following (as a respected lyricist). From the Drought Is Over 2 and Da Drought 3 onward Wayne became a critical darling and the "cool" thing to listen to... but thats if you get your only input from website reviews. Most of my friends don't read website reviews and he was already popular and respected by word of mouth on the strength of his mixtapes. I have other friends who I know just hopped on once Pitchfork started reviewing his mixtapes, but these were the same people whose favorite artists included the likes of Animal Collective, the Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian and Bright Eyes. I don't think you can generalize his entire fanbase into that category when it isn't. Sure, more people started saying he was the best rapper alive once critics started giving him high scores, but Wayne's real fanbase was already saying it when Wayne said it himself on tha Carter II in 05.

PS. and where's the love for Lil B being the best person signed to Soulja Boy's label:P

Orlando_Magic

I will always hold this position. Hurricane Katrina was the best thing that happened to Wayne's career. Here in Houston,the large influx of New Orleans kids forced Lil' Wayne on us.

Lil Wayne went from being the worst rapper on Cash Money to being the greatest rapper alive,IsThisIt_basic

Concieted

He's a battle rapper from Grind Time now, dude is all about punchlines and wordplay. Dude's prolly just gonna be a ghostwriter for Soulja, so I'm not gonna be surprised if dude's next album suddenly gets a lil better from a punchline perspective. I'm kinda interested to see how this turns out. Though, it'll prolly be like when Bow Wow signed Murda Mook :lol: 

fat_rob

POW was garbage. What's wrong with yall? Me and my *****s were clowning hard on it when it came out.HerbertdaPerv

POW wasn't good but it was a step in a more serious direction...

I still say Crank Dat's the best thing Soulja Boy's done so far...SmittyPeppers

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