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The dance. Inspired by recent dance crazes that had popularized some rappers from Atlanta, Soulja Boy (DeAndre Way) and his friends invented the dance moves that gave rise to "Crank That": As summarized by The Wall Street Journal, "dancers bounce back on their heels, ripple their hands, crank their wrists like motorcyclists, then lunge into a Superman pose".
Souljaboytellem.com only features guest appearances from fellow rapper Arab and R&B group i15, while its production was handled for the vast majority by Soulja Boy. The album was supported by four singles: "Crank That (Soulja Boy)", "Soulja Girl" featuring i15, "Yahhh!" featuring Arab, and "Donk".
"Soldier Boy" is a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg and made famous by the girl group the Shirelles. Released as a single in 1962, it met with great success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks. [1] Billboard ranked it as the No. 10 song for 1962. [2]
The album's first original single was intended to be "iDance", which was released online back in 2008. However, the song was dropped from the album for unknown reasons, with the possibility of "Bird Walk" catering more than towards Soulja Boy's original breakout single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)".
DeAndre Cortez Way (born July 28, 1990), [1] [2] known professionally as Soulja Boy (formerly Soulja Boy Tell 'Em), is an American rapper and record producer. He rose to prominence with his self-released 2007 debut single, " Crank That (Soulja Boy) ", which peaked the Billboard Hot 100 for seven non-consecutive weeks. [ 3 ]
Atlanta hip-hop producer Greg Street created a remix of the song on 2009, combining Keri Hilson & Yung L.A.'s freestyles with the Soulja Boy original, which reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart in September 2010 following a cover by Cher Lloyd during the audition process of the seventh series of The X Factor UK.
The former performed it with her male background dancers during a Destiny's Child medley at The Beyoncé Experience (2007) along with a snippet of Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" (2007). It was subsequently included on the singer's live DVD The Beyoncé Experience Live (2007) dubbed as "Soldier Boy Crank Mix". [78]
Soulja Boy originally self-promoted the song on the video-sharing platform TikTok by doing an assortment of short dances to the beginning of the song, [8] eventually fleshing out the dance and starting a viral trend on both the TikTok and Triller platforms, accumulating millions of views on both the original videos and various user-made video replies.