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Artist News
Soulja Boy discusses documentary
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 9 November 2011
Soulja Boy has been discussing a new documentary about his rise to fame, entitled ‘Soulja Boy: The Movie’, which was released in the US last month. Directed by Pete Spirer, who made Tupac Shakur documentary ‘Thug Angel’ and ‘Bigger Than Life’ about the Notorious BIG, the film explores the rapper’s life from his early YouTube videos onwards.
Soulja Boy told XXL: “[Spirer] approached me in Los Angeles with the idea for this project, and the way they presented it to me I couldn’t say no. I wanted my story to be told. I’ve been in it for a minute, but I’m still new to the game. It’s like what I did for hip hop, I definitely want that to be showed. I want my fans to be able to know more about me; the person behind the name”.
But what sort of exciting things can we expect to see in the film, Mr Boy?
“It goes from the first single, to the ‘Crank Dat’ dance craze, to the YouTube views, to the third album not doing good, to the robberies, to the sold out concerts; tours across the world, Brazil Amsterdam, London, Paris, Tokyo, Japan, the whole United States. It’s just gonna give all the fans just that insight that they’re lookin for. They wanna know as much as they can about their favourite rapper, and that’s what this movie [is] here for”.
Yes, that does seem to cover quite a lot. And what’s more, he adds, all those ‘haters’ are covered too. “They touched on that in a certain chapter. Anything you do you’re gonna have haters with it. That’s just life. If you a girl and you look good in school, the other girls gonna start hatin on you. If you a good rapper, you gonna have other rappers that are gonna hate on you. The hatin, the criticism and everything, I’ve just gotten better with it, and take it in [my] stride. I could be in way worse positions than somebody hatin on me. As long as I’m still doin me and I’m great at it and I’m on top of my craft, hatin is just whatever”.
In summary: haters gonna hate. Check out the trailer here:
