Quick name a song that Soulja Boy has out. Crank That, Superman – that’s it, right? That’s all you know. That’s all I know, but I never listen to the radio. (Kaiser pointed me to this other single, but said she’s never heard it or anything.) A quick glance at Wiki confirms that I’m probably right that he hasn’t had any other big hits. That Crank That song came out in 2007 and he’s had two albums out since but they haven’t done as well as his first album by a long shot. Well Soulja is pretty confident in his money situation despite the fact that his career never really took off after he made that crappy rap song about not cleaning up after he does his business on a girl’s back. He’s bought a $35 million private jet and had it customized to the tune of $20 million. Couldn’t he have just splurged a half million on some stupid bling and called it a day? (He already owns a ton of stupid bling so I’m sure the two things are not mutually exclusive.) That’s insane.

Soulja Boy doesn’t know the meaning of the word recession — because TMZ has learned, the 21-year-old rapper is dropping $55 MILLION on a new private jet.

A member of Soulja’s management team tells us … the kid bought himself a G5 jet as a birthday present to himself this week.

The jet cost $35 mil … but that’s just the beginning. We’re told the birthday boy is dropping an additional $20 million to pimp out his ride with all sorts of cool stuff … like 12 custom Italian leather seats, flat screen TVs, 4 liquor bars, a special travertine tiled floor, and Brazilian hardwood cabinets.

We’re told S.B. is also gutting the in-flight lavatory — and replacing it with a giant, LUXURIOUS bathroom. Oh, he’s also giving the jet a custom paint job … to include his logo.

And if that’s not enough for someone’s 21st — we’re told Soulja’s also spending $300,000 to throw himself a blowout birthday party at a Miami nightclub tonight … and Dwight Howard, Bow Wow, and Sean Kingston are all expected to attend.

[From TMZ]

Someone on TMZ posted a link to this site that claims Soulja Boy’s net worth is estimated at around $5.7 million, which would be awesome if he actually lived within his very considerable means. So he had one hit single four years ago and now he’s borrowing around $50 million to build a custom jet. It’s not like he has any talent to back it up. Ice-T even called Soulja Boy’s Superman song “garbage.”

Maybe Soulja made a little money from his tour this year, but I doubt it was even enough to pay for 1/4th of that jet.

Ice-T, 49, gave an interview to DJ Cisco from Chicago in which he disses young rapper Soulja Boy. The quotes below from Ice-T are on the Urban Legend Mixtape, which is available now. Hip Hop pioneer Ice-T says 17 year-old Soulja Boy’s song “Superman” is “garbage,” and he tells the young singer to “eat a dick.” Soulja Boy responded to Ice T with a message on You Tube. He basically says Ice T is old, that there’s no reason to diss him because he’s a success story, and that no one wants to hear Ice-T rap anymore anyway:

“F*$@ Soulja Boy! Eat a dick! This nigga single handedly killed Hip Hop.”

Those are the words of Gangsta Rap veteran, Ice-T, who appears on DJ Cisco’s Urban Legend mixtape with a few choice words about Soulja Boy.

“That shit is such garbage man,” Ice-T continues to snarl. “We came all the way from Rakim, we came all the way from Das EFX, we came all the way from motherf&#$ers flowing like Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube, and you come with that Superman shit? That shit is garbage.”

Apparently, Soulja Boy isn’t the only one in Ice-T’s sights. The rapper had a few things to say about another young rapper.

“Hurricane (Chris) take them f’ing beads out of your hair nigga! Man up. You niggas is making me feel real f’ing mad about this sh*t.”

[From HipHopDX.com]

Here are Ice T’s comments about Soulja Boy noted above. This video contains NSFW language:

Ice T- “You single handedly killed hip hop. That sh*t is such garbage.”

And here’s Soulja Boy’s response. It has plenty of NSFW language too, and if you can’t listen there’s a partial transcript below. It looks crass when you read it, but if you have the time to watch it’s actually pretty funny.

“This nigga Ice-T old as f’ck. This nigga old enough to be my great grandfather….

How you gonna make a song called ‘F’ck the police?’ 35 years later your ass playing the police on TV…

I’ll let you fight my granddad. He’ll knock your ass out. You were born before the Internet was created. How the f’ck did you even find me?

‘Superman’ that was last year… get with the times you old ass.”

Then Soulja Boy gets serious and says “I respect everybody who started this. Who opened the doors for young artists like me to get into the hip hop industry… I respect everybody to the utmost. I don’t want to disrespect nobody… I know Ice-T is an old ass nigga, I know he’s a legend in the game, he’s a veteran and all that, but nigga you tell me ‘eat a dick’ and I hear that on the radio…

You rich as f’ck. Quit… why you still rapping? The game has changed, there’s new niggas out. Ain’t no one want to hear that old sh*t no more. There’s people who still want to hear it. They just ain’t dead yet.”

[Gets serious] “Mr. Ice T. You must understand. Shit is different. When you was born, niggas was still driving in wood cars. Walmart wasn’t made yet. There wasn’t no Internet. There wasn’t no video cameras to record this to diss your old ass on… Stop with that bullshit man.”

Soulja Boy says he wasn’t born rich and “this time last year, I was living in the ghetto. I’m 17 years old. I worked hard for this shit. If it was all of this… off one song. You should be congratulating… That’s what you should be saying instead of ‘eat a dick.’ Do you know how many niggas in the hood now wishing they were in my position? Wishing they were in your position?”

Soulja Boy really missed an opportunity to rip on Ice T’s slutty wife, Coco, but at least he stayed on point.

And here’s Ice-T’s response to Soulja Boy’s response to him. He apologizes for telling Soulja Boy to “eat a dick” and says “a brother of my caliber shouldn’t be talking down on a youngster your age. But as far as your music goes, it’s garbage. This ain’t no old school, new school, east coast west coast thing.” Ice T goes on to name new artists he likes who he says works hard in the industry. He says Soulja Boy shouldn’t have responded to his diss, because he can only hurt his new career while he’s more established and has nothing to lose.

Soulja Boy has a point. There was no reason for Ice T to diss him, but then Ice T is right and Soulja Boy’s music isn’t that great. I never got the appeal of that “Superman” song, it seemed kind of primitive to me and I didn’t understand why it caught on like it did. I’m old, though, so what do I know? The Internet wasn’t invented yet when I was born, either.

Here’s Ice T doing “Original Gangster,” which came out in 1991.

And here’s that “Superman” song from Soulja Boy that we’ve all heard too many times. It’s been viewed 19 million times on YouTube and is most likely a one hit wonder.