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The song became a meme in early 2019, on the video-sharing platform TikTok. As part of the "Pretty Boy Swag transformation meme", users upload short videos of themselves where they "transform into their favourite pop culture figures". [1] According to Mashable India, during the song's build up, users don pieces of costumes and assume position.
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 ]
On January 8, 2008, the video for "Yahhh!" premiered on BET's Access Granted and on Yahoo! Music. [3] [4] The video parodies people trying to get Soulja Boy's autograph, including Duane Chapman of Dog the Bounty Hunter, an imitation of Hillary Clinton and an imitation of Britney Spears, who appears to be intoxicated.
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".
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.
Model Nia Riley, 33, and musician Soulja Boy, 32, dated for several years, and their relationship was partially documented on the hit reality show "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood." According to Teddy ...
Prince Williams/WireImage; Noam Galai/Getty Images First, Nicki Minaj got her Barbz to back off. Then, she got Soulja Boy to apologize to J. Cole. Soulja Boy, 33, issued a “mea culpa” late on ...
Souljaboytellem.com is the first studio album and major label debut by American rapper and producer Soulja Boy Tell 'Em.It was released on October 2, 2007, by his Stacks on Deck (SOD) label, Collipark Music and Interscope Records.