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Directed by Spirer, Soulja Boy: The Movie was released direct-to-video on October 18, 2011, a date that coincided with Soulja Boy's arrest on a drug charge. [ 193 ] [ 194 ] [ 195 ] The film contains live performances from his DeAndre Way Tour and interviews with his father and current and former members of Stacks on Deck Entertainment. [ 193 ]
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".
The music video premiered on BET in February, 2008. The music video is in black and white showing friends of Soulja Boy doing the "Pool Palace", and girls dancing. At the end of the clip, it shows a sample of Soulja Boy and his friends all by a car singing a track on the album, "Snap and Roll."
The music video was shot in New Orleans, Louisiana and Atlanta, Georgia at the Kelley residence. The video shows Soulja Boy doing his daily routine, when his girlfriend misses him and calls him, and shoots a video of herself making a kissing face on an iPhone and sends it to him. Featured artist Sammie also makes an appearance.
The music video was directed by Matt Alonzo and shot at roger flouton house in Beverly Hills. The music video peaked at number 1 on the top 10 countdown of BET's 106 & Park. The video follows the theme of the song, with Soulja Boy Tellem appearing in the house while singing the song. It was leaked to YouTube before its official release date.
The Grammy-nominated rapper was arrested at 8 a.m. Pacific and taken to a Van Nuys, Calif., jail, before being released without bail just after noon.
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 ...
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.