Article: CD REVIEW: Soulja Boy worth the download, little else

Mike Bushnell
University Wire
10-05-2007
(The Maneater) (U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo. -- If anyone questioned the power of the Internet, and more specifically YouTube.com, then Soulja Boy Tell 'Em has finally made that person look stupid. Back in the spring, months before it became the No. 1 song in the country, "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)" was an Internet sensation.

The video of three guys in their living room doing the Soulja Boy dance has gotten nearly 14 million hits, spawned covers varying from SpongeBob to Aquaman and inspired parodies such as "Crank That (Folger Boy)," which is about the virtues of a cup of coffee.

That's not bad for a song that probably cost about $12 to make and considering ...

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