It took Drake 10 years to get a #1 single. It only took Soulja Boy one song.
Soulja Boy's 2007 debut single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" had the streets on fire upon contact and it wasn't long before it swept the nation. It spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has since gone triple platinum.
A marketing genius, Soulja Boy who was one of the first people to harness the full potential of the internet. The steel drum loop is iconic, but it's really the video, which doubled as a dance tutorial, that sparked the song's massive success.
The dance is still kinda fresh. In honor of Soulja Boy's BRAND NEW album Better Late Than Never, revisit the sensation that was "Crank That (Soulja Boy)."
Quotable Lyrics
Soulja Boy up in this ho
Watch me lean and watch me rock
Superman dat ho
Then watch me crank dat robocop
Super fresh, now watch me jock
Jocking on them haters mane
When I do that Soulja Boy
I lean to the left and crank that thang
