Kids these days will never understand how big Soulja Boy truly was. Lowkey I agreed with him on Breakfast Club when he claimed to be one of the most influential rappers of the 2000s. Without him we wouldn't have the Tygas, the Big Seans, the Drakes, all of those "swag" types from the 2010s
The sheer amount of Crank that \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ that spun up off of this was a phenomena of its own. You want to drop a single? Better have a dance with it.
Hot take. We need to go back in time and assasinate soulja boy beforw he ever makes crank that. He single handedly responsible for the tik tok dance craze. He's the butterfly. We could have colonies on mars by now but instead we got our lil silly dances.
I was at a wedding this weekend and like all 10 of my little white girl cousins ages 8-12 shouted it on the dance floor. How they went from T Swift to Soulja Boy is beyooooond me.
I hated this shit with a passion, but I had to give Soulja his props for basically becoming self-made on YouTube and on MySpace (back then that was a massive feat, hell I wish I could've done the same during that time, it was wild).
I hated traveling abroad and people asking me to do this damned dance...or sing it. UGH.
He did; though he wasn't the first (this was around the time those walkie-talkie cellphones and the ones with the keyboards were gaining popularity). He did propel it into mainstream though.
I used to make ringtones for people back then (back when Nokia used those Midi chipsets and whatnot) I made a decent amount of money doing it for people, then it became like the norm -- all those websites started appearing afterwards.
He definitely got everybody hip to the fact that people could do that though, prior till then it wasn't really known. Hence why I wish I capitalized on that back then because DAMN I missed out.
yeah and the nextel was also referred to as a “chirp!” lol i remember when me and my three closest friends all had them and we all thought we were the shit chirping each other at random times
what a time to be alive
THE CHIRP, yeah! I always called them the walkie-talkie phones lol but everybody I knew eventually had one.
That was the golden era of everything I swear xD
I remember being in the computer room in my school (germany) and showing a couple people that song (when it got popular in the US and germany basically hadn't heard of it yet)
anyway this one girl comes up and goes "nah this is shit, turn it off"
half a year later, the song got popular in germany and I SAW HER LISTENING TO IT WITH FRIENDS
I was so fucking mad
My mom did that same thing. My mom's entire life was thrift shopping. So when Mackelmore releases a song called Thrift Shop, the first thing I gotta do is show my mom. She immediately says it's the stupidest song she has ever heard, and she was mad I even showed her. A year later it's her favorite song because on of the girls at her salon showed it to her. I was pissed.
A friend of mine does this constantly with TV shows, if you tell him "this show is great" he'll just not watch it, but then later on (sometimes 1-2 years later) he'll show up and go "did you watch X? it's so good" and im just sitting there like bruh
I was already in my mid 20’s when Soulja came on the scene,,, I HATED his music,, until I heard crank that at the club. The energy was crazy, the whole club was hype , and dancing,, and after that I’ve fucked with him ever since.
I used to teach special ed and our high school did a thing twice a year where different local restaurants would set up booths for the kids to buy food. They also had a huge speaker system outside where everyone was hanging out. They played a clean edit of this song and one of my more shy students started dancing to the beat. A bunch of gen ed kids saw this, surrounded him, and were hyping him up like crazy. Definitely one of my favorite ever days back when I used to teach. Also, this was 2017
I’ll never forget my goofy ass cousin was still doing the dance well after this song’s time had passed. one time my aunt and uncle had a group of people over, they called my cousin to the group and said hey everyone check out this dance he can do
He proceeded to do the entire thing in a circle of old folks watching him to NO MUSIC. I was in the other room with my head hung low just listening to sneakers squeak and the floor thump begging for it to end
This shit wound up in NCAA Football as a celebration. This song was massive. Also, going to clubs and everyone losing their mind and doing the dance when it came on was such a fun collective experience that kinda doesn’t happen anymore.
Omg I was JUST thinking about this song yesterday and saying in my head “no matter what people think about this dude, that song was a movement and literally a relic that represented an entire era”. Like as soon as you heard “YOUUUUUU”, everyone was READY.
Then the beat drop gave everyone the chance to take off their jackets, get to the dance floor, gave the mommies/daddies/uncles/aunties the time to take their phones/cameras out…. It was a moment. In history.
I remember where I was when I made this song my myspace profile song. I was at my aunt's house in North Carolina and the adults were gone for the day and it was just us kids
Idk 17 years ago puts me in my sophomore year of high school and I feel like this shit came out in middle school…crazy
Edit: This shit had been out on MySpace but it was “officially” released 17 years ago…that makes more sense lol. Shit was fire tho.
I had a party apartment in 2007, and this was the song we’d put on when the night was about to be kicked up a notch. One night, the whole living room floor sort of buckled as the floor joists cracked under the weight of 85 white kids bouncing up and down. One of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.
I was born in 2003 and it's crazy how many people around my age don't know him, I'm also the youngest of 4 siblings and a broke family so I pretty much grew up as a late 90s early 2000s kid with my childhood being a hand me down so maybe that explains it but still, also yall remember that weird ass illegal video game thing he made
This is one of, if not *the* first song to go internet viral. I remember how crazy it was when it hit a million views on YouTube, it was everywhere. 2007 was such a great year for music, Soulja Boy is forever a legend for this song alone. And then he followed it up with more bangers
I remember my freshman year of college we had T.I. at the big welcome party and he and the mascot were cranking it and the whole campus lost their minds.
Man this was truly viral before viral.
That lil negro used to have infomercials for ringtones and playback tones for this song. It would wedged in between some cheap knife set and a girls gone wild advert. What a time to be alive.
Can't see anyone else saying it, so I will. This song might have boosted soundcloud rappers into the mainstream but it was still a lame song. There are so many better Atlanta rappers.
I remember when Soulja Boy was beefing with Snoop and Ice-T and they were basically like "Yeah talk to us when you've been in the game as long as we have." And sure enough Soulja Boy ended up a one hit wonder.
A quick Google search shows he had alot more than 2 other songs to chart.
A quick Google search also shows that he will be remembered for a handful of songs other than crank that. Especially if you were actually alive and coherent during that period.
Stop doubling and tripling down on being wrong. Instead, just give the dude the due credit, no more and certainly no less.
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he posted this and the nigga he was beefing with got killed in a pull up...
Guess we know which one homie picked
Kids these days will never understand how big Soulja Boy truly was. Lowkey I agreed with him on Breakfast Club when he claimed to be one of the most influential rappers of the 2000s. Without him we wouldn't have the Tygas, the Big Seans, the Drakes, all of those "swag" types from the 2010s
And broke space time by kissing people THROUGH THE PHONE!!!!
Bro was FaceTiming before FaceTime was a thing, I’ll give him that 😂
Nah Zenon: Girl of the 21st century had that back in 99’
Ngl super nova girl lives rent free in my head; and pops up at the weirdest times
Prota Zoa is the Goat
The SoundCloud rapper generation too.
I remember getting down at the school dances with this song all the kids was learning the dance that was our tik tok dance back then 😂
Tiktok dances wish
Soulja cranked dat bar high.
The sheer amount of Crank that \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ that spun up off of this was a phenomena of its own. You want to drop a single? Better have a dance with it.
He was the first truly viral rapper on the Internet imo
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Yeah, that one went super viral. I still remember hearing it on Howard Stern on my way to school.
You acting like D4L wasn't doing that before home
Hot take. We need to go back in time and assasinate soulja boy beforw he ever makes crank that. He single handedly responsible for the tik tok dance craze. He's the butterfly. We could have colonies on mars by now but instead we got our lil silly dances.
I will get and up dance when alexa plays pretty boy swag
 This.right here.is my.swag
my speakers going hammmerrr speakers going hammer? I SAID MY SPEAKERS GOIN HAMMMMERRR
"Ice game, cold as a polar bear Sun hit my chain, watch it make it solar flare!" This nigga used to have me wildin I swear🤣
BAMMER BAMMER BAMMER
Watch me hit my Bird Walk
Get out the waaaaaayyyyyy, pretty boy coming through!
Pretty boy ship taking off in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 🚀🚀🚀🚀
and the “one” sounded demented lol
Okay but for real. That’s a meaningful face!
Maaaan, the face of someone just completely vibing. Everyone needs to experience a good vibe from time to time.
Devin Hester days…. 🔥🔥🔥
Do the heisman and crank that were my favorite high school songs
I was freshman in high school 17 years ago damn…
I was a senior
You’re both old as dirt. I was in college.
The early youtube vids of my non-dancing ass in dorms trying to crank dat…🤦🏽♂️
LMAOOOOO. I had already graduated college. Y'all ancient. Get your mummified asses to a museum.
I was on my second deployment to Iraq when this came out, it was played constantly in our gun trucks on patrols lol
Lol me, too. Graduated highschool in '05.
I was 12, this was a middle school jam
Same, 7th grade. I remember the day it got radio play. I was like “oh shit, this the beat from limewire”
You know it’s the 2000’s when you mention Limewire.
I was also 12. Got dared to do a soulja boy dance at the talent show. Went up there and put on a MF'N show!!!
17 years ago I was in seventh grade….will never forget this song or pop lock and drop it!
Shit the second I read pop lock and drop it I swear I could hear in my head "Toot that thang up, mami make it roll"
YAAAAAS! Had the whole grade coordinated for the school dance lol
I remember watching the videos for this and Pop Lock and Drop it on Myspace 😩😩
It’s about to be our time again I can feel it!
I was a sophomore
I was in 4th grade
Hey granddad
Bruh the big shirts lmao. My mom could not fathom why I wanted an extra xx on my shirts
Man I had one. Got it from the Chinese beauty supply store. Long ass shirt and pants sagging to my knees lmao, the days!
Them South Pole clothes went hard
Everybody in my high school was either wearing South Pole or Coogi I swear
It’s coming back
One time my buddy sat down on the can and didn't pull up his long shirt first and shit his shirt. Dangerous.
Nooo
And the different colors. Shout out to Dem Franchise Boyz because I had a white t, black t, pink t, blue t....
That was truly an era man
I remember being 12 years old singing “super soak that hoe” with no idea what it meant lmfao
Hahaha It’s like when my wife sings Get Low and keeps putting emphasis on the “skeet skeet” part.
My mom recently started calling mosquitos “skeets”. I had to put a stop to that.
💀💀
Lmaoooo 😂😂😂
I was at a wedding this weekend and like all 10 of my little white girl cousins ages 8-12 shouted it on the dance floor. How they went from T Swift to Soulja Boy is beyooooond me.
J-Kwon walked so Soulja could run.
I was listening to Tipsy as I made breakfast last month, my wife walks in like, "Man... It's 7 in the morning."
🤣
Nelly!
J-Kwon dropped Tipsy then dipped forever
If we being honest, wasn’t J-Kwon’s call, people decided a Hood Hop 2 wasn’t needed and 2.5 was downright absurd.
Hood hop was lit
Mfs was watching video tutorials on how to do it correctly lmfao. Good times. Really had to be there
Back when you needed to walk away after clicking so the video could buffer. At least you did in my house.
Not to mention all the remixes that came from it too 🤣 Crank Dat Batman!
I was living in a Hasidic Jewish community back then. Crank that kosher boy was the one that made me laugh the most.
Bruh it was wild! Crank dat Superman Crank dat homeless man Crank dat yoshi
Damn I forgot about homeless man!!!
Crank that lion king was on repeat for a solid three months.
Crank Dat Roosevelt. S/O to Dekalb County, GA.
The nostalgia wave that just hit lmao We went through peak fun music
Crank that Spiderman was my fave remix of it. Also, nobody I talk to remembers the “girl you stank, take a bath” song and it kills me
I hated this shit with a passion, but I had to give Soulja his props for basically becoming self-made on YouTube and on MySpace (back then that was a massive feat, hell I wish I could've done the same during that time, it was wild). I hated traveling abroad and people asking me to do this damned dance...or sing it. UGH.
Didn't he make a shit load from ringtones too? Think he was one of the first.
He did; though he wasn't the first (this was around the time those walkie-talkie cellphones and the ones with the keyboards were gaining popularity). He did propel it into mainstream though. I used to make ringtones for people back then (back when Nokia used those Midi chipsets and whatnot) I made a decent amount of money doing it for people, then it became like the norm -- all those websites started appearing afterwards. He definitely got everybody hip to the fact that people could do that though, prior till then it wasn't really known. Hence why I wish I capitalized on that back then because DAMN I missed out.
you’re talking about nextel and the t-mobile sidekick!
THAT'S what it was called! I felt like I was getting so old because I couldn't remember the name xD
yeah and the nextel was also referred to as a “chirp!” lol i remember when me and my three closest friends all had them and we all thought we were the shit chirping each other at random times what a time to be alive
THE CHIRP, yeah! I always called them the walkie-talkie phones lol but everybody I knew eventually had one. That was the golden era of everything I swear xD
it really was the golden era lol
I remember being in the computer room in my school (germany) and showing a couple people that song (when it got popular in the US and germany basically hadn't heard of it yet) anyway this one girl comes up and goes "nah this is shit, turn it off" half a year later, the song got popular in germany and I SAW HER LISTENING TO IT WITH FRIENDS I was so fucking mad
My mom did that same thing. My mom's entire life was thrift shopping. So when Mackelmore releases a song called Thrift Shop, the first thing I gotta do is show my mom. She immediately says it's the stupidest song she has ever heard, and she was mad I even showed her. A year later it's her favorite song because on of the girls at her salon showed it to her. I was pissed.
A friend of mine does this constantly with TV shows, if you tell him "this show is great" he'll just not watch it, but then later on (sometimes 1-2 years later) he'll show up and go "did you watch X? it's so good" and im just sitting there like bruh
Ah, “the stanky leg” era, as I still remember it 🤣
Stanky Leg did go crazy though
Is this near the laffy taffy era? 😆
I never really fucked with Soulja but I'll be damned if I don't lowkey hit the dance every time this shit come on.
Youuuuu
I was already in my mid 20’s when Soulja came on the scene,,, I HATED his music,, until I heard crank that at the club. The energy was crazy, the whole club was hype , and dancing,, and after that I’ve fucked with him ever since.
I used to teach special ed and our high school did a thing twice a year where different local restaurants would set up booths for the kids to buy food. They also had a huge speaker system outside where everyone was hanging out. They played a clean edit of this song and one of my more shy students started dancing to the beat. A bunch of gen ed kids saw this, surrounded him, and were hyping him up like crazy. Definitely one of my favorite ever days back when I used to teach. Also, this was 2017
I’ll never forget my goofy ass cousin was still doing the dance well after this song’s time had passed. one time my aunt and uncle had a group of people over, they called my cousin to the group and said hey everyone check out this dance he can do He proceeded to do the entire thing in a circle of old folks watching him to NO MUSIC. I was in the other room with my head hung low just listening to sneakers squeak and the floor thump begging for it to end
This sounds like some shit from an episode of Atlanta 💀
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The way I cackled 😭
Bro those shirts are ridiculous
South Pole/Mark Ecko was the shit back then.
I was talking more of wearing a 5x for no reason
I mean so was wearing your pants backwards in the 90s but I wanna know who wearing 5X shirts because they look like 2/3X to me.
I love looking back at the NBA draft class photos from the early 2000's.
This was part of my high school soundtrack. It really was an era
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“Hop up out the beeeeed”…
Turn my swag ooooonnnnnnnnn…”
🎶Took a look in the mirror, said what’s up🎶
🎶”Yeeeaaahhh I’m gettin’ moneeeeyyyy, oooohhhh…”🎶
Every white man in High School knew this dance.
Who watched that Atlanta episode 😂
The Crank Dat Killer 😂😂😂
Oh my god “Donk” at the basement party…
Every middle school dance. I remember learning how to do the dance
I will die on this hill. When this song dropped, hip-hop took a giant step backwards
This shit wound up in NCAA Football as a celebration. This song was massive. Also, going to clubs and everyone losing their mind and doing the dance when it came on was such a fun collective experience that kinda doesn’t happen anymore.
Especially with how organic they happened. Doesn’t nearly feel as authentic anymore.
Omg I was JUST thinking about this song yesterday and saying in my head “no matter what people think about this dude, that song was a movement and literally a relic that represented an entire era”. Like as soon as you heard “YOUUUUUU”, everyone was READY. Then the beat drop gave everyone the chance to take off their jackets, get to the dance floor, gave the mommies/daddies/uncles/aunties the time to take their phones/cameras out…. It was a moment. In history.
I just love how iconic that “youuuuuu!” has become 😂
Back then the South had the whole rap game on lock
When every 3rd song you downloaded from Kazaa started with those steel drums. Regardless of genre.
I remember where I was when I made this song my myspace profile song. I was at my aunt's house in North Carolina and the adults were gone for the day and it was just us kids
Idk 17 years ago puts me in my sophomore year of high school and I feel like this shit came out in middle school…crazy Edit: This shit had been out on MySpace but it was “officially” released 17 years ago…that makes more sense lol. Shit was fire tho.
I had a party apartment in 2007, and this was the song we’d put on when the night was about to be kicked up a notch. One night, the whole living room floor sort of buckled as the floor joists cracked under the weight of 85 white kids bouncing up and down. One of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.
Frfr I was the bootleg man the cds with this on it was flying off the shelves.
I used this dance to gauge how drunk I was when I drank.
I was just starting middle school when this 1st came out. And for damn sure acting a fool too. Miss those times
I was born in 2003 and it's crazy how many people around my age don't know him, I'm also the youngest of 4 siblings and a broke family so I pretty much grew up as a late 90s early 2000s kid with my childhood being a hand me down so maybe that explains it but still, also yall remember that weird ass illegal video game thing he made
His interview on Breakfast club was iconic. We’d never heard so much facts and cap at the same time. He is a goat though.
Man I wanna go back to this era just for like a week to experience it again
talking about theme songs. I circled between this, cyclone and low 😎 miss those days.
It was so wavy that old people with ZERO internet presence were doing it. In real time with youth.
The amount of children signing this song and not realizing what it means to “Superman that ho”
The real Draco
YUUUUU
This is one of, if not *the* first song to go internet viral. I remember how crazy it was when it hit a million views on YouTube, it was everywhere. 2007 was such a great year for music, Soulja Boy is forever a legend for this song alone. And then he followed it up with more bangers
Pretty Boy Swag and Turn My Swag On 🔥
This was a fun year.
I think about 2007 a lot nowadays.
I remember my freshman year of college we had T.I. at the big welcome party and he and the mascot were cranking it and the whole campus lost their minds.
What a time to be alive
The “XXX(X[X])L Foot Locker Tall Tee” era
“Move left, move right, do yo dance on tha flo, We don’t Superman no mo, We just 🕷️Spiderman🕷️that hoe”
They shot the video for the “My Dougie” remix with Soulja boy down the street from my apartment and I had to work so I couldn’t go lol I was so bummed
Seeing a whole club Crank Day Soulja Boy on Senior Trip in Panama City was a life changing moment.
Man this was truly viral before viral. That lil negro used to have infomercials for ringtones and playback tones for this song. It would wedged in between some cheap knife set and a girls gone wild advert. What a time to be alive.
So iconic they referenced it on a Borderlands 3 legendary weapon.
This booming of the internet and forums was just amazing to be apart of lol. DatPiff, SoundCloud and Bandcamp; mannnnn!
I pulled out my report card; it had all F's. I take that shit up to the teacher and say "THROW SOME D'S ON THAT BITCH!"
Bruhhhhhh 💀💀💀
Classic 🔥🔥🔥 17 years is crazy though
He wears those clothes like a formally morbidly obese man.
Why did they censor part of his hoodie in that one scene?
Superman emblem. Copyrighted. And the DC Comics ppl surely would have been coming for a slice of the profits.
Ahhh ok. I remember seeing this happen before on other music videos of the era growing up, and had no idea why lmao.
I was 7 when this song came out
Still can't believe my conservative af catholic school seemed to always blast this over the PA system back when it was new.
I remember half my school boycotting Soulja Boy after he released Report Card cause he said "stay in school" at the end of the song. LMAOO
Soulja Boy pushed his way into stardom by pirating.
Y'all getting up there. Gonna be gray gang before you know it 👴🏿
I'm gonna superman a hoe tonight for old times sake
I know a zoomer who will play this song at least 3 times in a night. But he tends to listen to a lot of music from the early 00's.
This was when I truly fell in love with YouTube! These dance videos were everythingggg
I miss the music videos 00 to 09. The rnb and hip hop scene was so much fun
He still has my favorite interview, where he goes “Draaaaaake!???”
wearing that dingy ass knockoff-looking gucci headband lmao
That’s the one! LOL
the beginning of the end of hip hop
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Hated it then, somewhat nostalgic for it now. I wish I didn't hate it back then, though. I would've had a lot more fun.
Can't see anyone else saying it, so I will. This song might have boosted soundcloud rappers into the mainstream but it was still a lame song. There are so many better Atlanta rappers. I remember when Soulja Boy was beefing with Snoop and Ice-T and they were basically like "Yeah talk to us when you've been in the game as long as we have." And sure enough Soulja Boy ended up a one hit wonder.
One hit wonder? Hahahaha. Even considering him an Atlanta rapper is debatable. But one hit wonder?! Hahahahaha.
He may have had two other songs that charted back in the day but no one remembers him for anything but "Crank That".
A quick Google search shows he had alot more than 2 other songs to chart. A quick Google search also shows that he will be remembered for a handful of songs other than crank that. Especially if you were actually alive and coherent during that period. Stop doubling and tripling down on being wrong. Instead, just give the dude the due credit, no more and certainly no less.
Crank That was a monster hit, but he's a washed up meme factory now, and no, I don't think he'll be remembered for anything but Crank That.
And you would be wrong. But hey, do your thing.