**Disclaimer**: The author makes up a lot of new catch phrases in this article which may or may not enter the hip hop lexicon, pay close attention.

Okay this may come as a huge shock to some of yall, considering I gave Soulja Boy’s album 0 stars (read here), but I think I’m considering “adjusting” my opinion of Soulja Boy as the wackest rapper of all time. Yahh trick, yahh! Now I’m not sure if I’m just being perceptive of an actual change in public opinion and just reporting it, or if I’ve just lost my god damn mind and will have my hip hop pass revoked by the purists.

But let me preface my comments here by saying I don’t listen to Soulja Boy at all, in fact, the only time I heard his album was when I did a review on it [sidebar: I have it blasting as I write this]. Just to let you know for the last month I’ve been listening to nothing but Lupe, Budden and surprisingly Birdman’s album [sidebar: Birdman’s album is actually kinda sick in an ignorant way]. Anyway, I think there is a slowly growing change in perception regarding Soulja Boy among hip hoppers of my generation (i.e. The Generation That Used To Matter).

First let me explain what my hip hop generation is, we are the people that grew up on Wu-Tang, Nas and Biggie and later adapted to Dip Set, Young Jeezy and T.I. I would say age wise we are between the ages of 20 and 25. We have love for the “lyrical swag” South stuff like T.I. and UGK, but can’t stand that DL4 Laffy Taffy shit. We may however get wild to some “Crank Dat” considering how many drinks we’ve had at the club [sidebar: How you claim thug and you superman? When I just saw you in the club doing the superman].

When Soulja Boy came out he was the epitome of that Laffy Taffy music (and he still is). But the thing is, Soulja Boy with his Fresh Prince like charm has made that Laffy Taffy sound cool. Yeah I can’t believe I just said it either, but real talk. See cool people like me know whats cool and Soulja Boy aside from all his lyrical deficiencies is actually a cool dude himself. I really have no problem saying this and if any of you aliens from the planet Talib Kweli want to catch feelings your probably a huge geek whose opinion doesn’t matter anyway. But just to appease the hip hop purists who always want logical arguments and evidence and that sort of thing. Let me make the case for Soulja Boy not being the wackest rapper of all time (this is so evil).

You see what is the origins of hip hop? Happy-fun-dancing-disco-music. One of the first major hip hop songs was “Rapper’s Delight” which was like 10 minutes of silly lyrics over Chic’s Good Times [sidebar: The people that grew up to 80’s rap are “Generation Ol’ Skool”]. Your not going to get anymore silly then this. Today this would be the equivalent of rapping over Britany Spears beats, which incidentally qualifies as Laffy Taffy music. As Soulja Boy is the unresounding King of Laffy Taffy music with hits like “Crank Dat” and “Yahh”, Soulja Boy is simply bringing hip hop back to its essence. All these other backpack thug rappers ain’t. The fact that he is breaking all kind of downloading and ringtone records attest to his power over “Generation Now” [sidebar: All the 90’s babies]. Ultimately, Soulja Boy’s music is the essence of real hip hop.

PS. Still not convinced look at the picture above of Afrika Bambaataa

PSS. Soulja Boy still f*cking sucks.