- I look through the door, I see like 3,4 (beep) running
through the crib.
Even though the Vladtv interview was very serious topic,
people took it as a joke and started searching my
channels because the way I told the story.
I think it was funny to them, you know what I'm saying?
I hop out I start shooting, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow.
When I watched it back, I was like oh (beep) I was kind of
extra but it was a true story.
That's what happened.
(Beep) them (beep) try to rob me and they got they ass shot.
Walk up to this (beep), take his mask off his head.
Looked at it, saw who it was and like that, shot his ass
again, bow.
He screamin and (beep), "ahh, ahhh".
Shout out to everybody.
Shout out to the Soulja Boy channel.
They just was laughing and you know (beep) that (beep)
- Frow, frow, frow, frow, frow and I took the (beep)
mask off.
I was like damn this (beep) skin pretty as a mutha (beep)
Shot that (beep) again, bow, bow, pretty skinned ass (beep)
I was mad cause everybody laughing at me.
That was it I was mad, what you want me to lie?
I was mad, what the (beep) them (beep)
I was mad
I ain't like that (beep), I was mad.
- Them (beep) on the pool, they jump in trynna sweat,
I can't sweat.
I start walking up the pool I'm like bow, bow, bow, bow, bow
bow, bow.
I'm busting bow, bow, bow, whole pool full of blood.
- [Interviewer] You were walking on the water?
- Yeah
- Like man you all done took my story and turned it into
a joke.
You all try to be like, damn my life is in danger and (beep)
You all laughing and (beep)
- I'm a real street (beep) bro, real street (beep) bro
These (beep) be (beep) trying me bro.
- Man, shout out to Vlad cause he made me relevant at the
time, he made me popular.
It might not have been for the right reasons but it's still
was some fun everybody was talking about me, you know
what I'm saying?
It's something I can look back and laugh on but at the same
time I'm just blessed to be alive.
A lot of (beep) blew up on the Internet before me, you know
what I'm saying?
I was the first one to really utilize that (beep) and take
it over.
Like as a brand in a massive way basically the Internet
was Soulja Boy at one point in time.
I was at the house one day, I was like 14 and I was on the
Internet trynna find cartoons.
I typed it in and some (beep) came up it said YouTube.
I'm thinking it's tv cause they the Simpsons, they had like
all the little cartoons.
I started off just clicking on cartoons like the first hour
and I seen a little button that said upload.
Then I was like, "Oh my God bro if I upload on here imma
be on tv", I was young.
So I was like all right bet.
I made a video and just was like, "ooohh" acting like I
was on tv and I uploaded it.
That (beep) went viral it got like a million views.
I was like, "what the (beep) I became famous overnight, you
know what I'm saying?
It's like a secret (beep) because only I'm knowing like, you
feel me?
My parents not really knowing, you know what I'm saying?
My city, my hood knowing, they know it me as in the city
Soulja Boy.
Oh that's Soulja Boy who play football.
They not knowing me as the superstar on YouTube.
Everybody else is though from Chicago, New York, Atlanta.
It went Viral before the word was viral, you know what I'm
saying?
Soon as I get out of school Friday, I leave and go do a show
that night.
Saturday do a show, Sunday do a show, then Monday morning
be back in school.
Being in Memphis, be in New york, be in-- and my daddy
wouldn't know.
I was just doing that (beep) for a long time.
Then one day he caught me.
I think somebody took a picture of a video or something and
sent it to him.
I got back home, I snuck in it's like three, four in the
morning.
I'm getting ready to go to school, it's like Sunday night
like four in the morning.
I'm sneaking in, I'm walking in (beep)
This (beep) just bust through the door, "what the (beep)
wrong with you?"
I was like, "ahh".
He was (beep) you went all the way to a whole nother (beep)
state
♪You, crank that Soulja Boy, now what? ♪
- I was going live 10 years ago, you know what I'm saying?
Instagram live do that (beep) everyday now, it's the norm.
I was doing that 10 years ago.
When I was on Facebook (beep) was calling it lame.
When I was going everywhere putting out my video camera
filming and (beep), people was saying I was the police and
shit like.
Why he filming everything?
Why he recording everything he do?
Why he put it on YouTube?
Why he already got the cameras out?
Now where--everybody's knowing everything, everyday, all
the time, all the artists.
It changed 360 comepletely 360 turn.
I ain't exaggerating I literally had nothing, now I can do
whatever the (beep) I want to do period.
Buy anything, I can live out my dreams, my real dreams.
That was it, YouTube changed my (beep) life.
You got to watch who you be around that's what I learnt.
I'm damn near better off just hanging with my friends.
You get caught up in the wrong crowd, that's the only thing
bad being a celebrity cause your name is attached to that.
I learned how to maneuver that.
I learned how to like have fun with it instead of like being
a prisoner to it.
I was the first rapper on the Internet so I had yup-- admit
that.
I probably was the first rapper to do anything on the
Internet (beep)
How much (beep) can you do on the internet?
I did it all.
Bought a Lamborghini cash, bought Jewelry.
Went from (beep) to sugar right in front of you all eyes.