Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem

J-Banks · 12-24-2008, 11:48 PM

Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem
'That's the deepest I ever got on a song, period,' he says of album track, 'I Pray.'

One of the biggest knocks that critics have against Soulja Boy Tell'em is that his music has no substance. On part of his second LP, iSouljaBoyTellem, he decided to let the world know a little bit more about his life.

"I got girls claiming I got them pregnant, my life is really hectic," he raps on "I Pray," the album's outro. "I'm going through the spectrum, don't hate it, just respect it." He goes on to talk about a partially damaged relationship with his birth mother and stepmother as well as his detractors, and calls for his friend Gucci Mane to be released from prison.

"'I Pray,' it's the outro of my CD," he explained last week — after his video game battle with MTV News' Stephen Totilo — "That's the deepest I ever got on a song, period, in my career. I was just really speaking on different situations. Me becoming a celebrity, coming from high-school student to being a celebrity and having people hate on you. How my moms feel about the situation. It's mixed emotions all round my family. You got people asking for money, people feeling a certain kind of way now that I'm in the situation I'm in."

Soulja does revisit most of the elements that gained him his young following on his self-titled debut. "Booty Got Swag" is the sequel to his hit "Donk."

"The first 'Donk' record was in-the-club crazy," he said. "That was the song that had all the dudes coming up to me saying, 'I appreciate that, dog.' The women loved it. So I was, like, 'I gotta do a part two for this album.'

"'Rubber Bands," he added, describing another track off the LP, "is basically when I first came into the game, I didn't used to rock all this jewelry. I used to rock rubber bands. Even on the 'Superman' video, I had the rubber-band necklace, the rubber-band bracelet. I did that track over a Drumma Boy beat. He did the 'Pray' record, too. But the 'Rubber Bands,' that's for the old Soulja Boy fans."

Soulja has already released "Bird Walk" and "Turn My Swag On" off the new album. "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" with Sammie is the new single and video.

"Jim Johnson produced that record," said Soulja, who plans to tour in February. "He did 'Lollipop' for Lil Wayne and 'Whatever You Like' for T.I. Basically, it's about when you been in a situation. Say you're at work and your girl was at work. You really wanna see her. You call her, you wanna kiss her. You want to get to her but you can't. You kiss her through the phone."

Source: MTV

GMNRecordsCT3 · 12-25-2008, 02:30 PM

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Jim Johnson produced that record," said Soulja, who plans to tour in February. "He did 'Lollipop' for Lil Wayne and 'Whatever You Like' for T.I. Basically

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Jack Frost · 12-26-2008, 01:09 AM

that Kiss Me Thru the Phone track is ayt. the other two are wack. the background music of Turn My Swag On is nice, but the rapping sucked.

Wesey · 12-26-2008, 07:22 AM

all in all, the album wasnt horrible, but obviously wasnt expecting no Illmatic from Soulja Boy ay?! So uno it was aight, Kiss me thru the phone is a nice track, Bird Walk annoys me now, Turn My Swag On had a good beat and wasnt really a single was more of a promo tool with a cheap arsed video done in his house.

QBTrueG · 12-27-2008, 10:08 PM

Gucci Bahn-dahna, Gucci, Gucci Bahn-dahna.

T bøN3z · 12-28-2008, 01:05 AM

................wtf.
thats considered deep. and hard as hell?
....bye hip hop....it was nice too know you.

12-24-2008, 11:48 PM	#1
J-Banks Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Providence, RI Posts: 21,015 Repped: 5,294 Repped 53,425 Times in 7,839 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Neg Reps: 53 Neg Repped at 93 Times in 86 Posts	Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem 'That's the deepest I ever got on a song, period,' he says of album track, 'I Pray.' One of the biggest knocks that critics have against Soulja Boy Tell'em is that his music has no substance. On part of his second LP, iSouljaBoyTellem, he decided to let the world know a little bit more about his life. "I got girls claiming I got them pregnant, my life is really hectic," he raps on "I Pray," the album's outro. "I'm going through the spectrum, don't hate it, just respect it." He goes on to talk about a partially damaged relationship with his birth mother and stepmother as well as his detractors, and calls for his friend Gucci Mane to be released from prison. "'I Pray,' it's the outro of my CD," he explained last week — after his video game battle with MTV News' Stephen Totilo — "That's the deepest I ever got on a song, period, in my career. I was just really speaking on different situations. Me becoming a celebrity, coming from high-school student to being a celebrity and having people hate on you. How my moms feel about the situation. It's mixed emotions all round my family. You got people asking for money, people feeling a certain kind of way now that I'm in the situation I'm in." Soulja does revisit most of the elements that gained him his young following on his self-titled debut. "Booty Got Swag" is the sequel to his hit "Donk." "The first 'Donk' record was in-the-club crazy," he said. "That was the song that had all the dudes coming up to me saying, 'I appreciate that, dog.' The women loved it. So I was, like, 'I gotta do a part two for this album.' "'Rubber Bands," he added, describing another track off the LP, "is basically when I first came into the game, I didn't used to rock all this jewelry. I used to rock rubber bands. Even on the 'Superman' video, I had the rubber-band necklace, the rubber-band bracelet. I did that track over a Drumma Boy beat. He did the 'Pray' record, too. But the 'Rubber Bands,' that's for the old Soulja Boy fans." Soulja has already released "Bird Walk" and "Turn My Swag On" off the new album. "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" with Sammie is the new single and video. "Jim Johnson produced that record," said Soulja, who plans to tour in February. "He did 'Lollipop' for Lil Wayne and 'Whatever You Like' for T.I. Basically, it's about when you been in a situation. Say you're at work and your girl was at work. You really wanna see her. You call her, you wanna kiss her. You want to get to her but you can't. You kiss her through the phone." Source: MTV __________________ JBanksblog.com - check it out __________________

12-26-2008, 01:09 AM	#3
Jack Frost Natural Born Killah Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 2,144 Repped: 145 Repped 125 Times in 51 Posts Neg Reps: 3 Neg Repped at 10 Times in 7 Posts	that Kiss Me Thru the Phone track is ayt. the other two are wack. the background music of Turn My Swag On is nice, but the rapping sucked. __________________ Shady, Aftermath & G unit all day. fuck the haters!

12-27-2008, 10:08 PM	#5
QBTrueG 1st & 15th Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: From NYC To Tha CT Posts: 1,571 Repped: 718 Repped 184 Times in 104 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 9 Times in 9 Posts	Gucci Bahn-dahna, Gucci, Gucci Bahn-dahna. __________________ [04:56PM] OFFiCiAL JAE ROCK - ima print her pic. off...n when im drivin down there..ima beat off to it multiple times..so i can be ready when i sling her ass to tha ground...n ram my monster insider her butt hole.... [04:56PM] OFFiCiAL JAE ROCK - oh yea nigga...u done fucked up

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T bøN3z T bøN3z GnG Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,436 Repped: 1,118 Repped 91 Times in 44 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	................wtf. thats considered deep. and hard as hell? ....bye hip hop....it was nice too know you. __________________

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12-26-2008, 07:22 AM	#4
Wesey Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 358 Repped: 12 Repped 57 Times in 28 Posts Neg Reps: 2 Neg Repped at 10 Times in 8 Posts	all in all, the album wasnt horrible, but obviously wasnt expecting no Illmatic from Soulja Boy ay?! So uno it was aight, Kiss me thru the phone is a nice track, Bird Walk annoys me now, Turn My Swag On had a good beat and wasnt really a single was more of a promo tool with a cheap arsed video done in his house.