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Article: Soulja boy marches on
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 30, 2007
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As the headliner on the elaborately named "Up Close & Personal
Holiday Exclusive Tour," Chris Brown will share the stage next week
with another rapidly maturing artist, Bow Wow, as well as the rapper
responsible for the biggest smash-hit dance craze of 2007.
Born in Chicago, the former DeAndre Cortez Way was raised in the
South from age 6 on, and he first made his mark as rapper Soulja Boy
Tell 'Em (now simply Soulja Boy) as a part of Atlanta's burgeoning
crunk scene. Like much of that good-time, bass-heavy hip-hop
subgenre, Soulja Boy's music is short on lyrical content and big on
encouraging ...