|
Kanye West: "Soulja Boy is the true meaning of hip-hop"
Member Since: 8/3/2006
Posts: 33,524
|
Quote:
Originally posted by J@r3d
I fail to see the part where Soulja Boy isn't a one hit wonder?
|
Soulja Girl = 32
Yahhh! = 48
Those are flops?
|
|
|
Member Since: 5/31/2008
Posts: 11,688
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 1-N-Only21
, But of course ATRL is delusional and think thier opinion matters over the world. SOULJA BOY is the true meaning of Hip-Hop. He didn't just get a record deal and let everyone control his career and be a robot like some aritst in the industry *cough*RIHANNA*cough*. He put in ALOT of work and made his own beats and wrote his own raps, and had a HUGE reward for it. People can continue to say "Hip-Hop is dead" and all that crap but if a rap aritst like Lil Wayne can sell 1,000,000,000 copies in ONE WEEK of sales, it's FAR from dead. Soulja Boy being called a "RINGTONE RAPPER" or "ONE HIT WONDER" is about to go PLATNIUM, then hip hop is FAR from dead.
But again, everyone just looked at the title and assumed Kanye was prasing [sarcasm]soulja boy's artistic music[/sarcasm] and he wasn't, everything Kanye said in that was 100% true, and correct me if I'm lying.
|
Well, Rihanna may be manufactured, but at least her music is worth listening to, meaning it's acutally music. Yeah, so he worked hard to produce his own work, that doesn't mean it is good, and Soulja Boy's work lack depth and lacks substance. And BTW, just because Hip Hop and Rap albums keep selling well doesn't mean the genre is still alive. REAL Hip hop and rap died back in the early 2000's. Sales is not a reflection of how good a genre is, if anything it shows how BAD it is. Everything good with substance these days flops while the worse ones are successful.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2007
Posts: 798
|
i'm team souljah boy on the whole icet thing but for kanye to compare him to nas is just assinine. i can't stand kanye anyway so his sentiment falls right with his music to me
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/15/2007
Posts: 6,484
|
Wow. So he's basically saying 'Hip-Hop' is one big popularity contest, and that doing something that 4 handfuls of rappers have done before is original.
How in any way is introducing a dumb dance original? HOW many rappers have been doing that since 2003??? Come on, Kanye has always been an idiot, so this doesn't surprise me. Soulja Boy is the true meaning of garbage, and while I think Ice-T is in the wrong for talking about a kid like that, he was absolutely correct.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/14/2007
Posts: 6,202
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Afterglow
Wow. So he's basically saying 'Hip-Hop' is one big popularity contest, and that doing something that 4 handfuls of rappers have done before is original.
How in any way is introducing a dumb dance original? HOW many rappers have been doing that since 2003??? Come on, Kanye has always been an idiot, so this doesn't surprise me. Soulja Boy is the true meaning of garbage, and while I think Ice-T is in the wrong for talking about a kid like that, he was absolutely correct.
|
I agree with you, BUT everyone is entitled to their opinion and there are clearly plenty of people who like Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy is a genius for being someone who appeals to what people want. I don't think it is what they should want, but they do and there is nothing I can do about it.
|
|
|
Member Since: 6/16/2006
Posts: 8,691
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 1-N-Only21
, But of course ATRL is delusional and think thier opinion matters over the world. SOULJA BOY is the true meaning of Hip-Hop. He didn't just get a record deal and let everyone control his career and be a robot like some aritst in the industry *cough*RIHANNA*cough*. He put in ALOT of work and made his own beats and wrote his own raps, and had a HUGE reward for it. People can continue to say "Hip-Hop is dead" and all that crap but if a rap aritst like Lil Wayne can sell 1,000,000,000 copies in ONE WEEK of sales, it's FAR from dead. Soulja Boy being called a "RINGTONE RAPPER" or "ONE HIT WONDER" is about to go PLATNIUM, then hip hop is FAR from dead.
But again, everyone just looked at the title and assumed Kanye was prasing [sarcasm]soulja boy's autistic music[/sarcasm] and he wasn't, everything Kanye said in that was 100% true, and correct me if I'm lying.
|
fixed it. I'm sorry I had to have fun with this fastball after I saw it so I had to hit it
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/15/2007
Posts: 6,484
|
[Rant]Oh, and btw. I can't say enough how Soulja Boy is such a bad representation of african american youth. We have amazing african american people in the industry trying to further themselves, but people like him come with bad grammer, bad english, can't even wear his clothes right so that they don't look disgusting, and where is the rest of his eyebrows? He is just a mess, and I from personal experience know that viewing him, people will group all african americans in that group. It's just awful. Thank the lord for respectable people that are REALLY doing something for themselves and showing a different view, like Will Smith, Denzel, Raven, Trya Banks, Ashanti, legends like Bill Cosby, Janet Jackson & Micheal or course. [/Rant]
|
|
|
Member Since: 5/17/2006
Posts: 6,429
|
nas ***** all over soulja end of discussion
|
|
|
Member Since: 5/31/2008
Posts: 11,688
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Afterglow
Wow. So he's basically saying 'Hip-Hop' is one big popularity contest, and that doing something that 4 handfuls of rappers have done before is original.
How in any way is introducing a dumb dance original? HOW many rappers have been doing that since 2003??? Come on, Kanye has always been an idiot, so this doesn't surprise me. Soulja Boy is the true meaning of garbage, and while I think Ice-T is in the wrong for talking about a kid like that, he was absolutely correct.
|
I completely agree with you Afterglow! Kanye is one of the biggest idiots in the industry, so the fact that he is praising Soulja Boy doesn't surprise me. This is coming from a man who samples in order to produce his songs and calls it "originality". He wouldn't know anything about creativity or originality even if it slapped him across the face!
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/14/2007
Posts: 6,202
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Afterglow
[Rant]Oh, and btw. I can't say enough how Soulja Boy is such a bad representation of african american youth. We have amazing african american people in the industry trying to further themselves, but people like him come with bad grammer, bad english, can't even wear his clothes right so that they don't look disgusting, and where is the rest of his eyebrows? He is just a mess, and I from personal experience know that viewing him, people will group all african americans in that group. It's just awful. Thank the lord for respectable people that are REALLY doing something for themselves and showing a different view, like Will Smith, Denzel, Raven, Trya Banks, Ashanti, legends like Bill Cosby, Janet Jackson & Micheal or course. [/Rant]
|
Always funny how that name seems to enter your posts
|
|
|
ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 3/1/2007
Posts: 19,847
|
Quote:
Originally posted by 1-N-Only21
Soulja Girl = 32
Yahhh! = 48
Those are flops?
|
Considering "Soulja Girl" followed a #1 single and failed to even go Top 20, and "Yahhh!" didn't even make Top 40?
Yes, they are huge flops.
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/22/2003
Posts: 983
|
Kanye...... WHYY?!!
just lost soo much respect...
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/9/2004
Posts: 21,889
|
Kanye West talking about "recycling samples" ? I find this more hilarious than his idiotic worshiping to Lil Wayne and Soulja ****.
|
|
|
Member Since: 10/18/2006
Posts: 6,954
|
Of course, mostly everyone missed the point that Kanye was trying to make. However, he is apparently in denial about sampling music constantly; he knows he needs to stop, seriously.
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/12/2007
Posts: 5,851
|
I was actually seriously considering buying "Graduation" but now I've changed my mind.
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/12/2004
Posts: 17,160
|
Quote:
Originally posted by WAЯЯEN
Of course, mostly everyone missed the point that Kanye was trying to make.
|
I know right? Its obviously about the whole ice t thing but as usual, people were too dumb to even realize it
I agree with him. People dont understand how smart Souljaboy is ... alot of you guys might not like him but he really could care less about you, he knows who his fans are and how to appeal to them and his album did good so he's doing okay
|
|
|
Banned
Member Since: 7/28/2005
Posts: 9,146
|
Kanye is such a dick rider..i hope it's good.
|
|
|
Member Since: 11/5/2005
Posts: 29,791
|
Quote:
Originally posted by NorMal
Kanye is such a dick rider..i hope it's good.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 11/30/2007
Posts: 26,796
|
First off all, Soulja Boy is 17, second even though I like Crank That, what's the hidden meaning? The only meaning I hear in the song is a 17 year teenage boy teaching us a dance, but the actual meaning is f***king a girl?
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/3/2006
Posts: 33,524
|
Quote:
Originally posted by WAЯЯEN
Of course, mostly everyone missed the point that Kanye was trying to make.
|
Everyone is just assuming Kanye is saying Soulja Boy is true hip-hop and that's not what he's saying at all. But it's pointless to try and explain to a bunch of Soulja Boy haters.
|
|
|
|
|