Pyroradio.com: How you feeling the Uk man?

Soulja Boy: Soulja Boy tell em! It`s good man, it`s different but it`s good man.

Pyroradio.com: Break down your name Soulja Boy Tell Em where does that come from?

Soulja Boy: Soulja Boy Tell Em comes from when I first started recording. Every verse when I came in I started it with Soulja Boy Tell Em and after that it just stuck. All my fans kept calling me that then I ran with it when I signed my record deal.

Pyroradio.com: `Crank Dat` caused a frenzy, everyone`s doing the dance and that, did it exceed expectations for you?

Soulja Boy: Yeah when I first put it out, I didn`t expect it to do what it did. For it being the biggest selling digital single of all time, a world phenomenom, for me it was just another song I was recording, for it to be so big it`s been a real good feeling.

Pyroradio.com: Where did the idea for the dance come from? I`ve heard the dance has been banned in some school`s and school dances.

Soulja Boy: It was just something I was doing before I actually recorded the song and once I recorded the song I just put the dance to it, then it just took off. Yeah it`s been banned in some High Schools in the states and certain places won`t play it.

Pyroradio.com: Did you make up the dance and would you consider yourself a good dancer?

Soulja Boy: I do hood dances, I don`t really do the mainstream stuff you`ll see on TV, the type of dancing we do is hood dances, it`s the sort of stuff you`ll see at house party`s

Pyroradio.com: Do you do the Bashment dances?

Soulja Boy: Na it`s all hood I just stand there and let the girls dance on me.(laughs)

Pyroradio.com: With the success of `Crank Dat` many people have put you in the bracket of a one hit wonder what are your thoughts on that?

Soulja Boy: I don`t get involved in too much of that right there, I let other people make comments I just keep it moving. I don`t care what them people say.

Pyroradio.com: You`ve said your goal is to make up-beat, party vibed music that avoides the negative and violent image that is stereotyped with Hip Hop today. What do you think of the current state of Hip Hop?

Soulja Boy: I think it`s slowly fadeing out and there`s not that much good music out at the moment, I think everythings starting to sound the same, albums arn`t selling and it`s not interesting no more, people aren`t interested in buying albums no more they just getting ring tones or buying singles, downloaded on Itunes, no ones really listening to the music anymore it`s more for the beat.

Pyroradio.com: Alot of artists that arn`t from the south are saying south Hip Hop is just ring tone music, what`s your thoughts on that?

Soulja Boy: People have their comments but people who aint from the south might say south rap is ringtone rap but people from the south won`t say south music is ringtone rap .

Pyroradio.com: I know Gza from Wu Tang and yourself have said some things over interviews about this subject, as an artist growing up was New York Hip Hop an influence on you?

Soulja Boy: Na not really, not at all.

Pyroradio.com: Who were your influences when you were growing up?

Soulja Boy: I listened to alot of underground artists from the south. A lot of the artists out right now are alot older than me cos I`m just 17, the type of music I listened to is completely different to the type of music they were influenced by.

Pyroradio.com: How did you feel about Gza`s comments?

Soulja Boy: I don`t know him or who he is so I`m just gonna continue and get money and continue what I do and he can continue what he do.

Pyroradio.com: I ain`t been to the south can you give me and insight to what it`s like because the dirty south sound has really taken over hip hop.

Soulja Boy: With the dirty south, the music scene down there is what`s new, it seems like every year the south comes with new music, we don`t keep it the same, we switch it up over the time, then a new trend comes in and people jump on that then that fades away, then another trend comes along and people jump on that.

Pyroradio.com: Would you say the Dirty South sound has saved Hip Hop?

Soulja Boy: I would say it kept it going, I wouldn`t say just the south saved Hip Hop, but I`d say right now it`s keeping it going, for a time the west coast was running it, then the east coast was running it and now the south is running it and keeping it going. It`s not like we saved it, we kept it going until the next things come out.

Pyroradio.com: So what`s next for Soulja Boy?

Soulja Boy: I just got of tour with Chris Brown and Bow Wow, right now I`m in the studio recording my second album, it`s called `Back to school` look out for that, we`ve got a clothing line coming called SOD Money Game in the works so look out for that as well.

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