LET'S ARGUE: Soulja Boy Wasn't So Influential 

Soulja Boy said "YOUUUUUUUU" and music came to be

History can roughly be divided into pre Crank Dat and post Crank Dat

What!? Soulja Boy was hugely influential. The gaming industry has never been the same since his console release.

A little bit of Melon in my life A little bit of Death Grips by my side

watching this on my souljaphone while eating soulja cereal

When I wake up first thing I do is I get out of my Soulja bed put on my Soulja socks brush my teeth with my Soulja brush and Soulja paste drive to work in my Soulja car listening to music with my Soulja pods go to work at the Soulja factory and then I come home to my Soulja house, pet my Soulja dog go to sleep in my Soulja bed and repeat. There’s glory in the Soulja life

In this world you either crank that Soulja Boy, or it cranks you.

There’s a reason we still talk about him today. He was a “SoundCloud Rapper” before SoundCloud was a thing. There’s a reason every millennial rapper says they listened to him throughout their childhood. Of course he is fucking influential!

That guy is just mad that Soulja boy didn't kiss him thru the phone

in the 60's: Literally going to jail or getting shot because of your song. 2010's: Getting trolled on Twitter IT'S SO HARD TO MAKE PROTEST MUSIC THESE DAYS OMG

Watching this on my souja watch

Fantano why are you wearing a “Nazis” shirt you insane madman

Lets argue: you’re playing bass for Soulja Boy’s next LP

are we just gonna ignore the fact that he switched shirts in the middle of the video, then switched back?

“I illegally downloaded music” -Fantano Ladies and gentlemen, we got him

When someone says that Wolfmother ripped off Led Zeppelin, it immediately clues me to the fact that they have never listened to Black Sabbath, and probably haven't listened to much Led Zeppelin either

Soulja Boy literally invented music

Soulja Boy was incredibly influential, just by the way he got famous. He was one of the first artists to get big from RU-vid

Whoever said Soulja Boy wasn't influential ain't cranked dat before

0:32 Soulja Boy is not as influential as he makes himself out to be 2:42 Saying "dark prog" invalidates you as a reviewer 3:41 Pitchfork is the worst thing that happened to music 6:04 People hate on Greta Van Fleet for ripping off Led Zeppelin, but Wolfmother did the same thing 10 years ago 7:44 Mambo No.5 is a timeless bop 7:54 Dalek deserves more credit for Death Grips' sound than they currently get 8:48 Once The Egg makes a song it'll be the most-liked song of all time 9:07 Tea is basically hot, diluted leaf-water and that's gross 9:36 It's not arguing if you read this tweet in your video and I don't get a rebuttal to your response 9:56 The fact that so many artists have come out and say that they're "done with music" is shameful 11:26 Bowie probably knew how powerful The Internet would be for marketing music well before any of us did 12:36 Protest music is harder to make & sustain in The Internet due to organized trolling/direct access

Let's agree: You should make a gaming channel and play every single game on Soulja boy game console.

Damn melon, I can't believe you wore a shirt that says "Nazis".

I can’t hear you I have my SouljaPods on

Fun fact: "Crank That" was made only using FL Studio stock samples (via Dylan Tallchief)

In the beginning, god created the heavens, and Soulja Boy. And he said "This is good."

Let’s Argue: Soulja Boy’s Rick n Morty free style is def top 5 freestyles of the decade

Let's Agree: Anthony should join Death Grips as the 4th member. He will be their bassist, and will whip out classical buh-duh-duh-duhs to accompany the havoc. Thoughts?

Soulja boy literally invented breathing put some respect on his name ☝🏾

I think it's funny how everyone literally forgot about soulja for over 10 years, and are all of a sudden trying to make up for it now.

Melon how dare you disrespect Mambo No. 5 😡

Without Soulja boy, music wouldn’t exist checkmate melon.

I fully acknowledge Soulja Boy is influential to modern music. I still hate his music

How many days straight have you worn that NAILS shirt, melon?

If Soulja Boy = Plato Then Bobby Shmurta = Aristotle

anthony i want you to kiss me thru the phone

3:00 jesus christ this robert christgau guy seems extremely pretentious I'm glad i've literally never heard of him. "until fantano uses my inferior medium I refuse to acknowledge his legitimacy" this is why high school kids invented the "ok boomer" meme

I miss It's Food with Anthony Fantano. You should make more It's Food with Anthony Fantano.

"You guys right now, have your Mille Rock and you have your Floss Dance, but I knew how to CRANK DAT GODDAMN SOULJA BOY." - Anthony Fantano

Soulja boy is just jockin' on his haterz man

It makes me deeply happy to see a RU-vidr I watch appreciate the same band/bands as me. Your metal tees never fail to cheer me up when I see them.

Soulja boy ringtones where inescapable during middle school. I want to recoil thinking about it.

I made music

Ah so The Trinity is: The Soulja Boi, The Based God, and the Holy Thugger.

“Soulja boy inspired me to start doing this rap shit.” - Tupac Shakur.

Coffee is just hot bean water. Soda is just sugar water. You can break down any food like that.

Soulja boy is definition of a RU-vid rapper or SoundCloud rapper he got popular without a label lol 😂

But his consoles were VERY influential

Mambo #5 is not the only one. There are at least four others that could be worse.

I seriously thought that shirt said Nazis for a whole minute and was very confused

The photo with Cornelis Vreeswijk, Fred Åkerström and Gösta Cervin, that you put in the background when talking about protest music, made me surprisingly happy. That for that!

NOBODY DISRESPECTS KING DRACO! 😡😡😡

Mfs who say soulja boy isnt influential cant explain why people consistently talk about him every year when in from just 2016 - 2020 alone we had a shit ton of rappers who went platinum several times that we've already completely forgotten about

I was in 4th grade when Crack That dropped, but fam, that shit went up at every school dance. It changed school dances and went to influence kids, and now influencing kids with dance + music songs is just a standard. Soulja has influenced rap in the same way that Pixies influenced the 90s... but Soulja had a huge drop. You might not be able to tell me that you know the pixies discography, but when I show you “Where is my Mind?”, you can’t tell me they didn’t impact the hell out of musicians.

Tony doing that reverse shot had me over analyzing. I couldn’t figure out what his shirt said, but shortly realized it was just his NAILS shirt, but in a reverse shot

It's okay to not like Soulja Boy, Anthony, but using the hard R wasn't necessary.

“Let there be light” - Soulja Boy.

Soulja Boy trending on RU-vid makes me wonder if we are even in 2019

I'm old enough to remember mixtape trading, rappers selling their music out of their car or on the streets...obviously this degree of "hustle" isn't needed with social media etc but the side effect of that is a lack of necessity. I honestly don't really consider newer trappy glossy stuff as hip hop as much as I see it as just a side show of the Pop market.

_Man don't diss him. i lOvE mY sOuLjA cOnSolE_

Just as an addition to the "music as a job" thing. Music can be a job even if you aren't signed and aren't hugely successful. I played tons of shows for years and it quickly became a tough job. Absolutely any field can become a job.

Let's agree soulja boy is influential

Bowie fascinates me more and more. My folks really missed out on his stuff, it was never really a part of our household.

I didn’t know you still uploaded as “thatistheplan” on Souljatube

Clearly the title is wrong, Soulja Boy created the universe, his "YOOUUUUUU" started the big bang. These are true facts

Soulja boy died for our sins

it makes me feel good when you say i'm the best

So glad i grew up with Soulja Boy, and not Lil pump Smh my head kids these days will never understand true music.

Anyone else hear "I'm just doing the best that I can" in a Godsmack "Whatever" sound? 'I'm doing the best I ever did I'm doing the best that I can I'm doing the best I ever did'

Soulja boy founded Nintendo.

Fantano is such a nice man. Always putting the title topic in the beginning

lets agree: you gave die lit a higher score than kamikaze

Is Lil B considered popular, I like him as much as the next guy but I never thought he was very big.

Welcome back to another edition of “melon plays the bass”

Have to say Anthony that I love the fact that you used a picture of Cornelis Vreeswijk protesting the vietnam war in sweden at 12:37

SOULJA PODS > Air Pods

I will still never forget that time we had music quiz in class and Crank Dat came on and I raised my hand and then answered ”Now watch me (You)”...

Not Influental? *MEEEEEEEEEEEE?!*

Nice to see Dälek get mentioned. Still puttin' out killer records to this day!

Feet reveal when?

Whenever you get the time Fantano, review Members Only, Vol 4.

Let's agree: dalek is pronounced "DAH-LICK" not "DIA-LIC"

"Mambo No. 5 is a banger." "GET BEHIND ME, SATAN!"

Mozart is just a playboi carti ripoff

6:04 There’s a great video out there of Mike Patton talking some mad shit about Wolfmother.

Is Soulja boy now Soulja man?

I was literally thinking about putting Dälek in a Let's Argue earlier but for some reason i thought it'd be the one band fantano didnt know so basically any band anyone likes, fantano was there first.

im gonna smack u for that mamba comment

Curious point about the Bowie tweet, his 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth has his character introduce a new music format that would in many ways predict the streaming and digital formats of today - it seems only logical that the idea would have been floating in his mind since, and he'd be one of the first to partake in it twenty years later.

soulja boy can be as influential as he wants and im fine with it as long as his music doesnt become popular again

TIL Soulja Boy was the seed that birthed modern hip hop

*Remembers Pitchfork's 2.0 score of The Fragile*

I agree on the Wolfmother stance. I was reeeallly into Led Zeppelin in my teenage years and also enjoyed Wolfmother, although not to the same degree as Zep. I played plenty of Zeppelin covers when I was in a band in high school. I've only listened to Wolfmother's eponymous first album but I never thought to myself, "This sounds like some damn Zeppelin". Wolfmother built upon their inspirations while retaining originality. On the other hand, GVF reminds me of a damn good Zeppelin tribute band. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I was really hoping (for their sake) that they would explore some new sonic territory on their latest album. After the reviews on their last album and their latest SNL performance, I kinda feel bad for the guys.

Imagine If 40% of the subscribers of this channel doesn’t know What needle drop Even is.

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Melon unironically called kale "delicious"?

Soulja Boy created the internet

"Soulja Boy had killed music, Music didn't die with a whimper or in an explosion. It went out with a YOOOOOUUUUUU" -Paraphrased from Killian Experience, The history of music.

Antonio u gotta make a video showing your basses and other instruments you own

12:58 is that Cornelis Vreeswijk? (Btw the sign in the background says "USA get out of Vietnam" in Swedish).

Melon is short for Melonie. Upvote so Melone would see this comment

I don't know, I was listening to radio the other day. I heard something that sounded like second-rate Led Zeppelin. I was like, "Ugh, is this Greta Van Fleet again?" Turns out it was Wolfmother.