Soulja Boy Blames Label For Record Flop.

"Honestly, I shut down for a week [after my album dropped]," He told Complex magazine. "I wasn’t talking to nobody, I wasn’t talking to management, and I wasn’t talking to the label. I wasn’t picking up nobody’s calls. I went like that for a week. I was in a state of confusion. I needed answers…the label only shipped like 18,000 copies [of the album]. So I wasn’t able to do gold first week or even 100k, none of that. They only put like 8,000 units in Best Buy. It was crazy."


After a COMPLETE flop in early July last year, Soulja Boy states that his motivation to keep rapping was inspired by well proclaimed artist 50 Cent by stating, "[50] was like, 'You’ve got to keep doing what you’re doing. You’re Soulja Boy, you’re here for a reason. Everybody’s not going platinum. Everybody didn’t do what you did. Everybody didn’t come in on the Internet. You’re the one that started the Internet. You’re the one that got me on the Internet. You’re the one that got us on blogs, on YouTube, and on Twitter.’ I was like, ‘Man, you know what? You’re right.’ He wasn’t doing nothing but speaking true knowledge to my head and it got me right back in the studio. So I ain’t going to never quit. I’m going to stay in this music industry. I’m going to stay making hits, and I’m going to do what I’ve got to do, and I thank 50. I really needed that at that time."


In retrospect, I don't think many people expected Soulja to have made quite the splash on the scene as he did, and honestly... I think many people can support my opinion that Soulja Boy is a cancer in the game of rap. His club anthem type songs have NO lyrical content and absolutely no substance to his songs.  Consider Soulja Boy to be another Vanilla Ice of the present times.  Take a listen for yourself...