Although many rappers may disagree, Young Money affiliate Drake is giving teen rapper Soulja Boy a shout out as one of the smartest of his generation. In addition to taking his hat off to the young rapper, Drake also gave it up to Lil' Wayne and his nonstop hustle on the mixtape circuit.
"Your fans have to feel like you're riding for them," Drake explained in a phone interview with an unknown source. "And that's when your fan base becomes a bunch of followers as opposed to a bunch of people who just listen to your music. When they really support you non-stop is when they feel you've given them something. So Wayne did the right thing. Yeah, it was great to learn from him and sort of take that mentality and tweak it a bit and make it mine. Soulja Boy is the smartest artist of our generation, I think period and I think out of anybody. Whoever it is, whether it's him or his team or the people around him, whoever has the thoughts to do the things he does, is genius and I'm so happy for him."
Despite the outpouring of support from many in the hip hop community, Soulja Boy has received his fair share of backlash from rappers like Charles Hamilton.
"Inspirational hip-hop music, and nowadays it's gotten to the point where, n*gga, an inspirational hip-hop song is Turn My Swag On," Hamilton said in an interview with Hard Knock TV. "F*ck outta here n*gga, like that's the best you can do in the mainstream? No, I'm not trying to hear that. That's really not where I'm at."
At press time, SB had yet to respond to either rapper's comments.
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