Yo peeps!

So this is in case you missed Soulja Boy’s performance on Jimmy Kimmel.

Is he HOT or WHAT?

Another proof of how Soulja Boy is not only talented and good looking, this guy got big brains!  So check it out, S-Beezy was a speaker at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 at Las Vegas, Nevada. Aside of S-Beezy, there were several other celebrities who spoke such as Akon and Stevie Wonder. What did he speak about?  Well basically, Soulja Boy told the CES crowd how he made millions marketing his music online at such a young age.

“I was never on the radio, or on TV,” he said.  He explained how he went from burning his self-made CDs and handing them out at school, to uploading MP3s to websites with a dial-up connection.  Can y’all imagine, it was freaking DIAL-UP!  No DSL nothing.  He uploaded his music to SoundClick.com and within a few weeks, he was topping the charts!  With Sound Click, S-Beezy was able to sell 35,000 downloads a day for 99 cents a pop.  You know what that means?  That means Soulja Boy was making $17,500 a day and that’s the number after splitting the moolah 50-50 with the Website.  And the craziest thing is, he was only 15 years old at that time.  So y’all know now that all the cash he showed was really his own blood sweat and tears.

And then he moved to MySpace, got himself a manager and an agent, and once he put his agent’s number on MySpace, thousands of calls were coming in, asking Soulja Boy to perform live.  Y’all know that he was still a kid back then, even his dad wouldn’t let him perform on school nights.  So performing (and getting paid for it) every weekend for a kid who was still working at Burger King at the time, was kinda cool.  For his first performance, he got paid $300.  Kinda small for somebody who’s now earning millions, doncha think?

Soulja Boy went on working, making videos and embedding his clips on his MySpace page.  Before he knew it, his “Crank Dat” video got 40 million views and the music topped the charts for 7 weeks in a row!

Whew!

We’re inpired just by writing this.  Are you?

By the way, here’s an interview video of Soulja Boy on the CES event.  Enjoy!

Happy New Year peeps!  We’re bummed to start 2009 with a disturbing news about our guy Soulja Boy.  But well, here goes:  When usually Soulja Boy robs our hearts and attention with his music, today we came across some gossips saying Soulja Boy was robbed.  We were shocked and worried reading this report on Ballerstatus.com:

Teen rapper Soulja Boy may have been robbed at gunpoint earlier this week at his home in Atlanta. However, reports are still unconfirmed.

Via text messages on the rapper’s official Twitter page, he left an ATL night club “zooted” at around 11:30 p.m. on Monday (December 29). Then hours later, the next day, two more texts popped up, stating robbers kicked in his door, and almost took his life.

“Thanking God for my life,” Soulja Boy’s Twitter message read. “Six n****z kicked in my door and tried to kill me.”

“Glad we alive, they had AKs and pistols and tried to kidnap my boy Jbar,” another message read later that afternoon.

Later Tuesday evening (December 30), the messages mysteriously disappeared, and the teen rapper hasn’t addressed the alleged attack as of press time.

Ever since the shocking messages, the rumor has popped up on several gossip sites. Then on New Year’s Eve, two masked men posted a viral video (via Bossip), claiming responsibility for the crime. However, the men claimed that they were the only two robbers and not six, as Soulja Boy originally said. They also said that only one pistol was used, and not AK-47s.

In the video, the two men boast of monitoring the young rapper’s movements, attending his album release party, and then following him by to his home.

While the video was first met with skepticism by online fans, a rep for Soulja Boy confirmed to AllHipHop that an incident did take place. However, no further information was released, other than stating that the crime is “a serious situation.”

We’ll keep our eyes and ears open about this, peeps, and we’ll keep up with the update.  We just hope it’s not true and if it were, we hope Soulja Boy, Arab and the rest of the crew is okay.  Our thoughts are with y’all.  And for stans who happen to have tips surrounding this news, do post your comments ‘coz as S-Beezy’s reps said: it was a very serious situation.

Take care, y’all.