*Rapper Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way) broke into the rap game in 2007 with the record-breaking release of “Crank That.” It made history becoming the first single to sell 3 million digital copies. Since then, he’s released a number of projects but only charted on the Billboard 200 with his album, The DeAndre Way, back in 2010. He’s hoping to turn that all around with his new project Soulja Season. He chopped it up with iHeartRadio and EURweb Spotlight host Jazmyn ‘Jaz” Summers.
TELL US ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM.
Soulja: “New flows, new sounds. We finna turn the club up, man. We getting up for the summertime. I got Tadoe on there. G$ Lil Ronnie. I think everybody is going to rock with the single ‘Baby Bop.’
A little snippet had got out there, it had leaked out and people went crazy. I think that’s going to be an anthem.”
WHAT’S YOUR VISION BEHIND IT?
Soulja: “I just felt like when I was in the studio cooking up that it’s my time. I’m finna claim it right now. That’s what inspired the name Soulja Season. I was like, man, it’s my time to shine. I’m finna just pop out and claim it.”
YOU WENT IN ON LIL DURK AND NBA YOUNGBOY FOR ANNOUNCING THEY WERE RELEASING THEIR ALBUM THE SAME DAY AS YOURS. IN A VIDEO YOU SAID“ Drop that s### next month. Matter of fact, don’t even drop that s###. Unreleased that s###. Take that s### off iTunes. Y’all n##### in the way. WHY DID YOU GO SO HARD?
Soulja: when I rocked out and announced Soulja Season, we got other people dropping on it on my date in my season. I’m trying to get to the bottom of this, man. all I know is I announce my album first. I ain’t see nobody say nothing about no music. You feel me? And as soon as I announced my album, now we got all these albums coming out. So I’m just trying to see what’s going on.
AFTER THAT LIL DURK PUSHED HIS ALBUM BACK TO MAY 26TH.
Soulja Boy “Shout out to Durk for pushing his album back. Real N****s At the end of the day, man, I feel like it is competition and competition is good. You know what I’m saying? At the end of the day, I’m going to let the music speak for itself, we gonna let the fans decide.
CONGRATULATIONS. YOU RECENTLY BECAME A DADDY FOR THE FIRST TIME. HOW HAS THAT CHANGED YOU?
Soulja: I’ve been enjoying it for sure, man. I’ve been enjoying it.
It’s different. It’s fun, you know what I’m saying? I had a performance at the Clippers game halftime. I took him to that even tho he’s still crawling around. He not even walking yet.
Soulja Boy: If decide he wants to rap, I ain’t going to stop him. He already be singing little notes and stuff now. So I think he going to be into music for sure.
YOU’RE ALSO IN THE FASHION GAME. TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR LINE.
Soulja Boy: My clothing line is out right now, Soulja Boy Apparel. I just really wanted to come out with something, that resonates with the people, man, It stands for coming from nothing to something no matter what. And it’s been doing real good. Shout out to everybody that’s been supporting it. I appreciate y’all. I feel like we spent all this money on Gucci. We spent all this money on Louis Vuitton. Where is the support for something that we come out with and we own? So I just wanted to show my vision and present it to the people. I got to come out with my own drip.
Soulja Boy’s new album Soulja Season is available on all platforms and he will be going on tour in August. You can catch the full conversation in the video immediately above. Please don’t forget to subscribe to Jazmyn Summers’ youtube. Spotlight edited by Patrick House films.
Interview/article by Jazmyn Summers. Follow her @jaztalk1 on Instagram and Facebook. She is no longer using Twitter due to the increased racism on the site which she believes is a result of Elon Musk’s policies.
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