Soulja Boy "Crank Dat"

Listen. I have been trying to avoid posting about the whole Soulja Boy craze. The dance has taken over Youtube, been performed by Beyonce - OMG @ the catsuit - on stage and is soon to be shown every 15 minutes, that they show videos, on MTV. I was hoping it would remain an internet thing, but alas, I was wrong.

It was featured at the beginning of last night's Entourage. Not even finding out that Mrs. Ari had a bad body for a middle-aged women could stop the bad taste in my mouth. I was tight...until I read what completely changed my idea about Soulja Boy's message.

"The mis-spelled name might seem silly to some, but it is his way of depicting himself as a soulful person. Growing up on the streets of the inner-city, Soulja Boy found it difficult to not develop the hardened shell of many of his peers. He saw death and destruction and ever juncture, but still maintaind his soul. He is also a rastafarian, thus explaining the "ja" at the end of his name. He removed the "h" from "jah" in order to preserve the subtlety of his name.

His song Crank dat soulja boy is an ode to his hostile environment. In the inner city, "crank" means to emulate, to follow in the foot steps of. Soulja Boy is trying to inspire the youth that are not walking in the footprints he left behind in that concrete jungle he once called home. He is telling them to be like Soulja Boy. He is also telling them to "superman that hoe." Essentially telling them that the miscreant females of the street or "hoes" will cause him harm. Likening them to kryptonite, and the ghetto youth are Superman.

Soulja Boy is the epitome of lyrical aptitude, the likes of which have not been seen since the untimely death of the Notorious B.I.G."

Thank you fabionthegreat. You've openned my mind and heart.