Soulja Boy tells 'em about Braid

by Justin McElroy { Sep 17th 2008 at 12:45PM }

When worlds collide it's often awesome, producing something greater than the sum of two parts. But sometimes it makes something absolutely cringe worthy. Sadly, when rapper Soulja Boy discovered Braid and gave his considerate, well-reasoned and utterly profane critique (which you can watch right after the break, if you're not at work), it was one of the latter situations.

Oh, and while you watch, try to decide which is more entertaining: watching Soulja Boy mistake Braid for bong time fodder or reading comments from people who are so angry at him for not "getting it."

[Thanks, Kat]

Tags: braid, jonathan-blow, soulja-boy, xbla

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Nigeria @ Sep 17th 2008 12:52PM

Soulja Boy tell'em.

Deric Lee @ Sep 17th 2008 1:00PM

Speaking of being high....

Badboy1979 @ Sep 17th 2008 1:08PM

I think he's already told us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EgmXXjNcWk

... he makes money off of every pageview ... and every comment (even if it's negative). At least that was he says. Must be nice.

DEEZNUTZ @ Sep 17th 2008 1:57PM

Good review. Wish I would have seen this before I bought the game.

SARCASM BI*CHES!!!

Josh @ Sep 17th 2008 2:52PM

Hahahaha, amazing, Badboy.

dwhite @ Sep 17th 2008 3:36PM

Another Braid thread? Wow, this game is like 2 girls one cup, it just won't go away.

shaun c @ Sep 17th 2008 12:53PM

haha this is retarded

Haggard (Free Mr.ESC!) @ Sep 17th 2008 4:04PM

I love the 'wooooop' noises they all make when time goes backwards

Pureshooter @ Sep 17th 2008 12:53PM

I am SO angry at this guy. It's like he just doesn't "get it".

Shagittarius @ Sep 17th 2008 12:53PM

I agree with him about the character design being insipid. It makes me want to puke.

But I haven't played the game to comment on gameplay.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Sep 17th 2008 1:00PM

I agree son. Homeboy should have huege muscles and have guns and shit. Also he should have a bitch all over him. That'd be gangster.

Grammar freak @ Sep 17th 2008 1:24PM

Commenter Vegeta = Carlton Banks

BananaBoat @ Sep 17th 2008 1:29PM

I'll give two shits about his views on braid when he learns to spell, learns to speak so that I can understand him, and back peddles on the whole "This is a great game if you smoke weed and you are high" thing.

I'd be jealous, but we all know he'll blow his money on weed and houses, just like Hammer.

Kevlar @ Sep 17th 2008 2:39PM

For someone so concerned about proper English, did you, perhaps mean "backpedal"?
I've never done any back peddling, but I imagine selling spinal columns is not a particularly lucrative market.

Erluti @ Sep 17th 2008 4:06PM

The design elements are brilliant! The suited man makes him so plain and relatable. And the whole game sticks pretty closely to the mario paradigm, opening up a focus on time mechanics and not on how to play the game.

BananaBoat @ Sep 17th 2008 4:34PM

Do as I say son, not as I do.

I could make a long argument about how one could backpeddle (go back on the peddling of a stupid statement) but I shant good sirrah. Backpedal may be sort of correct, but I get my correctness from the gut. The truthiness of the backpeddling shall henceforth be clear.

Quote the Bananaboat
Nevermoar

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Sep 17th 2008 8:01PM

@Grammar

I'll take that as a compliment.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 18th 2008 12:33AM

Banana Boat wins! Good game, people, good game!

Michael Bolton @ Sep 17th 2008 12:55PM

Soulja Boy huh? Someone send this idiot over to Iraq and Afghanistan if he's really a soulja! I hope Ice T has some street cred left and beat him within an inch of his life.

Justin McElroy @ Sep 17th 2008 12:57PM

Wow, I know one mid-nineties recording artist that's bitter about his rap project "Bolton It Down" going tits up.

DWells55 @ Sep 17th 2008 1:09PM

Joystiq: the only place where you'll see Soulja Boy get told off by Michael Bolton.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 17th 2008 1:24PM

"The worst part is I told those cocksuckers that I loved Michael Bolton's music!"

FOXHOUND @ Sep 17th 2008 1:35PM

"Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks!"

OFFICE SPACE = Sadly, a documentary not a comedy for many ;D

xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 17th 2008 1:39PM

Sad Fact: I live out at least one scene of Office Space-like behavior per week. Sometimes even daily.

BCL @ Sep 17th 2008 3:01PM

geez

Snatcher (MDF - Halo Ring) @ Sep 18th 2008 3:21AM

In the words of Soulja Boy:

"Yaaa Trick YAAAAAAAAH!"

Lol. I know he's ghetto but you guys are taking it to the far corners of the uptight spectrum. That crap is actually funny. Thats the same thing you'd hear from me and my friends if someone sat us down in front of that turd with a case of beers. Games shouldnt have easy buttons.

AwesomeTown @ Sep 17th 2008 12:55PM

Wow. Just.. wow.

I don't even want to comment, though it was pretty funny.

Fenix @ Sep 17th 2008 12:56PM

OMMFG! This guy is one dumb mofo! I wish I could just reach in my PC as slap his dumbass. Did he even graduate? This bastard cant even communicate, how the fuck is he making money again? Its people like this that bug the crap outta me. Its like they are proud that they are ghetto or something.

DemonGSides @ Sep 17th 2008 1:07PM

How does he communicate? Have you listened to modern rap? You barely understand 1/3 of the words out of these idiots mouths.

Give me some of the classic. pass me the Dre, pass me the Snoop, pass me the Nas. Hell, even Ludacris is better than these guys.

Fenix @ Sep 17th 2008 1:17PM

I listen to rap and am a fan of some rappers but this guy is taking it to the extreme. I wonder how he tells someone something normal like hes going to the store to buy some toiler paper or that he needs an oil change. I'm just amazed at what is accepted in our society.

dark_inchworm @ Sep 17th 2008 1:34PM

You can understand Snoop Dogg?

For *rizzle*?

HighFiveJesus @ Sep 17th 2008 1:42PM

yeah snoop speaks english just fine but you can't be whiter than a brand new pair of nikes.

dark_inchworm @ Sep 17th 2008 1:53PM

Yeah, um... what?

Ok...

tdub301 @ Sep 17th 2008 2:17PM

Modern rap has sold out. Anyone who isn't already established as a quality rapper (some people here probably don't think there is such a thing) just puts out some stupid dance song to make money.

This guy did nothing more than put terrible, incoherent lyrics onto a catchy beat that someone he knows made and that people like to dance to in clubs/jam to on the radio/etc.

I don't even think most people know what his hit song is about, definitely not subject matter a respectable woman would dance to. And he won't get as much as you think, his record label will make the majority of the money

And for the record, Souljah Boy owes Ice-T, if it wasn't for people like him, noone would listen to the crap that gets put out nowadays. Ice-T shouldn't waste time responding to or even paying attention to anything that anyone on Souljah Boy's level says

riggs @ Sep 17th 2008 2:07PM

he takes my people back 100 hundred years everytime he opens his effin mouth. we're in 10000 B.C. right now.

RUN! MAMMOTHS!

embassy @ Sep 17th 2008 11:56PM

oh please tub103,

ever heard of MC hammer? Vanilla Ice? 2-live crew? Sir mix-a-lot? Third Bass?

silly raps and over-the-top dance moves have been a part of hiphop for over 20 years so you can dead that nonsense of yours now.

this always happens every 5 years or so...people all catch amnesia and forget about the silly dance songs *they* listened to as kids, just to bash the music kids listen to today. sad, really.

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Sep 18th 2008 12:09AM

im with tdubbs and riggs. nowdays rappers make more money selling ringtones than selling albums. so now the music doesnt have to be good, it just has to be catchy. i hate all of Soulja Boy's music as someone who has been listening to Nas, Jay-Z, Outkast, Eminem, Big L, etc. for years but i will admit that his music is very catchy. if people actually knew what they were singing about and what "superman that hoe" actually means, i guarantee they would not play it at all. this is almost as bad as before everyone figured out what "skeet" meant.

Hip-Hop is dead, and it's people like him that dont know anything about rap past the new millennium that are setting our people back.