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Article: Soulja Boy Cranks It Up Big-Time; DIY Rapper Is Making All the Right Moves
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- The Washington Post
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- December 21, 2007
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Love it or loathe it, "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" is the biggest
pop novelty of 2007, and only partly because it was the country's
No. 1 single for seven weeks this fall. With Soulja Boy's
rudimentary, shouted (mostly indecipherable) rhymes, spare steel
drum hook and snapping fingers, the song is equal parts irresistibly
catchy and endlessly annoying. If Charles Dickens were a music
critic, he might have written that "it was the best of tunes, it was
the worst of tunes." The track recently received a Grammy nomination
for best rap song.
Realistically, it's the easy-to-do, better-in-a-group
choreography that has made "Crank That" the biggest dance sensation
since the Macarena. Bigger, ...