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souljaboytellem.com is the commercial debut album by pop rapper Soulja Boy. The album features his hit single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)", as well as guest appearances by Arab and i15.
Soulja Boy produced most of the album using FL Studio.[1] The tracks: "Sidekick" and "Don't Get Mad" were produced by The Package and Mr. Collipark, while "Soulja Girl" was produced by Los Vegaz and Mr. Collipark. The tracks Bapes & Booty Meat are both from his original album Unsigned and Still Major. Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the number 1 worst album of 2007.[2] As of July 2008, his album has been certified Platinum for one million sales in the U.S.[citation needed] The same years Soulja Boy also introduced his label Stacks on Deck Entertainment
Track listing
| # | Title | Producer(s) | Featured guest(s) | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Intro" | Soulja Boy | 0:59 | |
| 2 | "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" | Soulja Boy | 3:42 | |
| 3 | "Sidekick" | The Package Store & Mr. Collipark | 3:59 | |
| 4 | "Snap and Roll" | Soulja Boy | 3:45 | |
| 5 | "Bapes" | Soulja Boy | Arab | 3:54 |
| 6 | "Let Me Get Em" | Soulja Boy | 3:21 | |
| 7 | "Donk" | Soulja Boy | 3:12 | |
| 8 | "Yahhh!" | Soulja Boy | Arab | 3:10 |
| 9 | "Pass It to Arab" | Arab | 3:58 | |
| 10 | "Soulja Girl" | Los Vegaz & Mr. Collipark | i15 | 3:07 |
| 11 | "Booty Meat" | Soulja Boy | 3:36 | |
| 12 | "Report Card" | Soulja Boy | Arab | 3:42 |
| 13 | "She Thirsty" | Soulja Boy | 3:38 | |
| 14 | "Don't Get Mad" | The Package Store & Mr. Collipark | 4:18 | |
| 15 | "Nope" (iTunes bonus track) | Soulja Boy | 2:33 |
Singles
Soulja Boy has released various singles from this album. The first was "Crank That (Soulja Boy)", the single topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks.[citation needed] The second single, "Soulja Girl" was released in October, the song received immediate success in U.S., but went almost unnoticed in other countries.[citation needed] A web-only single "Let Me Get Em" was released in November with a black and white video. After the video, a short video for Snap and Roll was shown. On January 16, 2008, the music video for the third official single "Yahhh!" premiered on BET, there is also a short video for "Report Card" after "Yahhh!". "Donk" was confirmed the next single.[citation needed] The singles, apart from "Soulja Girl", were reproduced by Mr. Collipark with better quality than the original and made clean for their music videos.
Reception and charts
souljaboytellem.com received poor reviews in the press and got a "D" from Entertainment Weekly, which called the album a "teenage wasteland filled with monotonously looped chants and agonizing blunt-force beats."[3] EW's Chris Willman ranked the album #1 on his list of the worst records of 2007.[2] A critic from BET said that Soulja Boy should not have produced his own tracks or the whole album[citation needed]. In Hottest MC's in the Game Soulja Boy was criticized for not using any lyricism through out the whole album and will never be one of the top ten hot MC's, although one of the brain trust of Hottest MC's in the Game named Buttaman (which is the host of the MTV Jams show Hood Fab) supported the fact that Soulja Boy be number ten in the list for making a record he produced, selling almost a million copies of his album and breaking ringtone history.
Sales
The lead single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 before the release of the album in September 2007. In its first week, souljaboytellem.com sold 117,000 copies and debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. The album has been certified Platinum, with sales of 1,000,000+ in the United States and millions sold worldwide. The total amount of sales sold in the US is 1,350,000.[citation needed]
Samples
The bulk of the album was made utilizing the stock samples that come included with the program FL Studio. Many of these stock sounds are samples from other songs, like the open high-hat used on "Yahhh!", which is sampled from "Impeach the President" by The Honeydrippers. "Report Card" samples "We Fly High" by Jim Jones and "Throw Some D's" by Rich Boy and "Soulja Girl" is thought to sample "Linus and Lucy".
Most notably, several songs on the album sample "Crank That" itself. "Bapes" and "Pass It to Arab" sample the phrase "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" (the latter also sampling the titular phrase "Pass It to Arab"), while "Soulja Girl" recycles the word "YOU!", and "She Thirsty" samples the word "Supaman".
References
- ^ "Rap City" (September 2007). BET.
- ^ a b "The Best (and Worst) Albums of 2007".
WORST 1. ... If you're seeking a circle of hell lower than the one in which "Crank That" is ubiquitous, listen to his entire album.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|quote=at position 6 (help) - ^ EW.com - Review of Souljaboytellem.com (October 5, 2007)