Now tell me, does it make any sense that all the women at that bar would get so excited about a song with such gross and demeaning lyrics? Well, it didn’t make sense to me, so I did a little research. First I looked up the song’s lyrics. What I found was a little disturbing.
In his song, Soulja practically lays out instructions for a series of events so gross I can hardly bear to recount it here. Before Soulja Boy executes the aforementioned deviant act on said hoe, he “cranks dat” (strokes his penis) a couple hundred times during the song in preparation for the culminating act. Then, he “supersoaks dat hoe,” (ejaculates on the woman, presumably on her back), a phrase that’s also repeated ad nauseam. Then, I suppose, comes the Superman. All the while, his posse of backup thugs is panting, “Now watch me youuuuu … Now watch me youuuuu.” Why (I was thinking) is the poor woman in the song still asleep—well, I guess she wasn’t a very good hoe.
Anyhow, I thought those lyrics were pretty explicit. Certainly not appropriate for a younger audience, and I’m surprised they could play the song on the radio. Soulja clearly has little or no respect for the hoes he’s Superman-ing, so why is this song such a hit, especially among the women at City Tavern? I knew I needed to dig a little deeper, so I checked out the song’s video on YouTube.
I was a little nervous, because graphic depictions of sexual acts make me uncomfortable. Was the video going to make me cringe, and look nervously around my living room to make sure I was alone? Was I going to be treated to video depictions of Soulja ejaculating onto some poor model’s back? Thankfully, no. The video is surprisingly tame, and decidedly divorced from the song’s lyrics.
Mostly, the video shows Soulja wearing an over-sized pair of white sunglasses with his name written in white crayon across the lenses. Other than the ugly glasses, the only thing that stood out in the video was a silly dance in which Soulja and other members of his crew sort of jump from side to side, then lean their torsos forward while extending one leg out behind them, a pose that makes their baggy sweat suits hang off their limbs, creating a cape-like effect. In yoga, that pose is called Warrior Three.
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