Soulja Boy is not original

[Ookmeister]

My friends and I always sing Soulja Boy everytime we play Daikenkai. xD

I'm glad other people noticed.

[F4SHADO]

Soulja boy came to Springfield, IL for a concert. Did crank that as first song. Threw shirt in the crowd. Did another song. And asked for his shirt back. Before all of this. We waited 45 minutes just see his goofy ass get on the stage.

[atxwhiteboys]

i dont think souljia boys that smart

[Tobunshi]

Daikenkai was actually originally on the arcade Pop'n Music 6, which was released in March of 2001. So it's even earlier than the Soulja Boy shit.

[Melilithia]

­One of these songs is obnoxious; the other is in Japanese.

[KingSpartaX37]

CRANK DAT DAIKENKAI!!

[katiecarrosa]

I noticed the similarity the first time I played that song in DDR. But it's not the first time a rapper has stolen someone elses rhythm. Haven't you eer heard Stronger? About half of that song was ripped from daft punk.

[TheOneBlueNinja]

@katiecarrosa Artists besides rappers do that too. Jason Derulo's "In My Head" is strikingly similar to a certain part of the Tekken 2 character select theme. I know it's probably a coincidence, but not knowing that for sure means that there's still the possibility that the artist ripped it off. That's why you gotta bring this stuff up. FOR GREAT JUSTICE. X3

[Snowgoon901]

@katiecarrosa Kanye actually credited Daft Punk, that's the difference.

[XMiiSsDDRGirlX]

OMG Sooo true XD

[FanOfThings]

wowwww nice find. good post

[TamaraLee13]

damn!! XDXD

[DravenUrei]

Ever try doing the Superman on Daikenkai?

Fun stuff, man XD

[AkaCeeNote]

OMG I DIDN'T REALIZE IT LMFAO I PLAYED THAT SONG FOR 4 YEARS NOW AND CRANK DAT PIKACHU ALL THE TIME LMFAO

[HuggumsMcgehee]

No. Not close enough. The flow is the same. That's about it.

[IownDisShit]

doesn't sound similar to me at all

[MZD79]

To those saying that Soulja Boy ripped off Daikenkai, did you ever think that maybe he did this song as a tribute? If not though, then that is pretty sad.

[DesperadoDesp]

Soulija boy sucks.

[123deion]

thank you aleast someone said dat lollll

[XxCoinOperated13xX]

AAHH!!!! Solja Boy, you loser! Daikenkai is ten times better than you! XP STEALER!!!

[666revorg]

I just played Daikenkai on DDR the other day and thought it sounded familiar to Crank That Souja Boy. This is why...

[AlexAceDDR]

Never, ever, put these songs together.

I don't care if your showing a similarity, just don't. You've ruined a good song. Obviously I mean Daikenkai.

[LittleMariko]

Daikenkai pulls off "crunk" so much more successfully...

[ddsharper]

@aznfryk he stole the beat it sounds like.

[LadySesshomaru18]

man that's pretty f$#@ed up. lol  Sounds cool together though. =^.^=

[Sayomibabe]

i said thisssssssss!!!!!! RIT WHEN I HEARD THAT RETARED SOULJI BOY but i didnt think those dumb asses would of been able to be smart enough to do that

[uzumakiking]

wait wait wait....wait.....wait....back the fuck up....ok see you lost me at "everybody loves crank that, right?" nowone likes that shyt...

[kerio993]

@uzumakiking .....da fuck iz u talkin about? des row blew dis shit out the water b4 they had a chance to compare it to dat shit song

[flyinjay007jpa]

Soulja Boy is a fag. n ddr is a classic good game with the best electronica n dance music ever. I woundered why his shitty mono toned crap... i mean rap song sounded familiar.

[KingOfKatamari]

I'm amazed by the fact that they're almost the same tempo, to say nothing of their rhythm or musical style. Thumbs up!

[LedZep526]

OR... it's merely a coincidence. OR... they both rippefd off the classic nursery rhyme Eenie Meenie Miney Mo.

[GmanX50]

Wait, wasn't Daikenkai in Pop'n Music first?

=\

[Harunai09]

So... Soulja Boy played DDR Extreme, played "Daikenkai" and then... he made the "original" song? ((--__--))

[TheLahFam]

In the lyrics it said to superman that ho. Seriously how can he be so perverted. Poor girls. This just adds to how bad he is.

[MukiXXchan]

i got mad when i saw this ugh.. i love dakenkai!!!

[SmileysOnXTC]

I KNEW IT!

[sharingan072]

im not in any way a fan of souljaboy unless laughing at his pathetic attempts at music makes me one but i thought the way they overlapped was cool.

[Iceyangelgold45]

man i want the lyrics for daikenkai i like when you mixed them so i can really hear the way soulja boy stole that dudes song

[subgeta07]

Meh, wouldnt be surprising. Rap artists do that sort of thing all the time.

[jonasgirlz2]

intresting?

[PastaBall]

Yes but the main point is this: Soulja boy sucks hard.

[TheRivalConcept]

@PastaBall look people takr riffts and parts of songs all the time. No one is 100% original

[Ninjajuju1]

@PastaBall YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! I wish that soulja boy would get sued

[TheYummyStrawberry]

This is stupid lol...Just because it sounds the same doesn't mean he stole it. I mean in actuality what song really is original? Every song is influenced by another. Embarrassing video!

[Hezkezl]

You fail at trying to defend Soulja Boy

[TheYummyStrawberry]

And you win at being a hater for no reason. Get off his nuts, if you don't like the music then move on lmao. Silly Youtuber kids.

[Hezkezl]

"Kids".. right.. being 25 and recognizing that a douche is still a douche, no matter what no-life rejects think, totally makes me a kid. Do you even know what 'get off his nuts' means? Someone should be saying that to you

[TheYummyStrawberry]

Any idiot can type 25 in the age box. I have a life, I simply commented on the video and gave my opinion. You however, find it worth the time to analyze what I said when no one was talking to you. If you're 25, learn to speak when you are spoken to...kid. Yes, I did say get off his nuts, meaning stop hating and grow up. As a 19 year old, I have something better to do than talk to your old ass. Now, reply like the usual Youtube kids do with some lame comeback, you're only talking to yourself now

[pdilla]

Well.... I'll add this to my ever growing list of reasons why I hate Soulja Boy.

[Miza212935]

omg you are so right i did not realize that intil now dang.

[yangusis]

Wow, more of a reason to hate Soulja Boy.

[BizzarreProductions]

I didn't realize this until I read a comment on a Daikenkai vid. Then I was like, "WTF!?!?!"

I'm sure it's just a coinciedence... rap is based off of poetry, and lots of poetry has the same rhythm.

Still, it's pretty funny, and Soulja boy is a nerd so I wouldn't be surprised.

[firespin97]

holy...fuckin....asscrackers

[Kote12TK]

So, you're saying that all this time, Soulja Boy was just a USA resurrection of Daikenkai? No wonder I always get a strange feeling every time I play Daikenkai.

[Bloxy123]

I always thought Crank Dat was kinda suspicious.

[shinigamiismygod]

its at the same tone u morons... listen to both of them on a frequency test and youll find it to be exactally the same

[13midnightglory]

as much as i h8 soulja boy, i tink it's jus a coinky-dink

[tundrachick]

I always thought they sounded similar.

[CardinalGamers]

wow...today is the day I discover I am not alone...hahahah

ever since that song came out, it always rang in my ear like something I've heard it somewhere...and for a while I thought it was Deja-Vu...

[tundrachick]

I've told people about that. They wouldn't listen.

[CardinalGamers]

sometimes they understand, but it's more because of how much they listen to it

[Pooky1991]

I hear it! Now I have another reason not to like Souja Boy!

[AngelM212121]

HAHAHA. Thats truth. But I dont think Soulja Boy likes to play ddr. Still I believe this

[PastaBall]

Actually, soulja boy has a newgrounds account with a bunch of anime-type stuff on it. He's actually a pretty big anime fan, so I'd assume he's played ddr at SOME point.

[Hikaru2g]

@PastaBall, before I get started I'm not a Soulja boy fan BUT there have been Jpop and Kpop musicians that copied other musicians in the world but let me guess you'll come up with excuses for them.

[pensukepaw1]

It might be a coincidence but the japanese version sounds better imo :P.

The worse thing is when I search for the Japanese singer Soulja , Google gives me thousands of useless links leading to soulja boy -_-.

[dvjJADE]

As much as I gag at Soulja Boy, I'm sure it's coincidence.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7

1-2-3-4-5-6-7

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-­14-15

This rhythm is not only common, but fundamental to a lot of musical phrases since Western Art music... Crank Dat is an obvious example, but these are a few hip hop songs off the top of my head that more or less have the same rhythm too

Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly

Jay-Z - Party Life

Shop Boyz - Party Like A Rockstar

Chamillionaire - Ridin'

[Purianite]

Chamillionaire on that list? Actually, the syllable pattern involves a bunch of twisting, since he does some speed flowing. So I'm not sure if he belongs on it.

And Daikenkai's chorus pattern is:

1~2~3~4-5-6~7~8

1~2~3~4-5-6~7~8

1~2~3~4~5~6~7~8-9-10~11~12~13~­14.

~ is normal, - is a smaller delay between each syllable. Tsuboi twists it up there with a two-syllable Japanese word, "kara", and makes it almost sound like one syllable.

[aquasnake2006]

i never liked soulja boy, but after listening to this, i hate it even more being compared to this song of awesomness

[Zant5976]

then again, since when were many of the hip-hop/rap "artists" original?

[Viktir666]

I hate Soulja Boy. He's a fuckup and has a really weak mind.

[GhIIIrox]

"Everyone like Crank Dat, right?"

No. No one EVER liked that shit.

[CyberTechArtist]

@GhIIIrox i did.

[Zeno111195]

@GhIIIrox As much I wish that was true, but sadly Crank Dat was so big. I hated it, but almost everyone in my middle school loved it.

[SpEeDFrEeK005]

@GhIIIrox let me guess.....you're black right

[GhIIIrox]

@SpEeDFrEeK005 No, I'm not.

[KadeemLeslie]

lol not related

[gladitsnotme]

its like the reggae remix of Daikenkai lmao

[TheBoyInBlack]

Des-ROW > Soulja Boy.

Ice T > Soulja Boy.

Fuck, even

Hannah Montana > Soulja Boy.

[slitherdoggy260]

lol dats just disrespectful........ good job lol

[foxyoukai13]

HAHA, ain't that the truth!

[Birdthebirdistheword]

even Fuckin Jonas Brothers > Soulja boy

[n00bImFirinMahLaser]

@TheBoyInBlack Just barely but yes XD

[Hakuoro917]

@TheBoyInBlack I lol'ed

[CyberTechArtist]

@TheBoyInBlack not true. Des-ROW > Soulja boy

Ice T < Soulja boy

Hannah montana < fred

[D3NVR07]

Rap is DEAD. When Nas, the nigga who lives, breaths, eats, and shits rap and says its dead you know that shit has to mean something.

[TheStunna727]

i literally stopped listening to rap a lil bit after soulja boy started gettin big. nuthin good has come out since. rap is shit now

[marzipin]

I agree 100%

i still listen to older rap though and some unknown rappers who have much better music then the retarded rappers these days.

[p91294]

listen to underground rap man

[marlotiquia]

its true Soulja Boy is not original but Des-ROW from KONAMI is the original

[wrestlingfan567]

i love des row!!! :D t

[MilkChan]

daikenkai is their only good song really. Troopers would be good if the vocals weren't terrible.

[MilkChan]

Oh and Funky Sonic World but that gets old.

[smashfantan]

@MilkChan listen to samurai!!, it's pretty on par with it

[Ehqz04]

wow, first I heard Soulja boy uses default sounds from FL, (btw my friend perfectly recreated the music of Crank that, Just to prove it) And NOW< THEY STOLE THE SOUND? This is enough!

[JaguarRaiju]

ive said this before...i'm just glad that there's someone that feels the same way!

[Wehrspinner]

That you called RECOVER ........IDIOT

[KazeOrion]

Hmmmm...

Very intriguing.

DDR pwns 'Soula Boy'...

Cuz I drink BRAWNDO! The thirst Mutilator

[Dokupenda]

Both songs suck equally so it makes sense.

[AllOtherNamesTaken]

Cool. Soulja Boy made a generic rap that sounds like generic J-pop. This is something everyone should care about.

[theZodiacDigital]

haha so true.

[asbl00dfalls]

des row owns soulja boy

[cookies4evar]

This is amazing.

[neptune350]

LMAO.

[LainofODI]

can't unhear

[jthamexican]

actually you can. i saw this video many moons ago and forgot until now

[UltraMaXAtAXX]

Yes! WIN!

EAT IT!

[ShantiIly]

umm big deal theres allot of songs that were rerecorded that became famous.-_-

[xopher314]

When that happens, royalties are paid to the original artist and the original artist is credited in the album.

[ShantiIly]

ok whatever the only way the song sounds like solja boy is the way he chants it. so honestly he just got close. and ya'll need to stop trippn over such little detail -_-'. cause in that case you can compare all kinda songs to eachother and say the same thing you are now.

[PastaBall]

That's, uh, kinda the point here.

It's a musical comparison.

[ShantiIly]

... Sigh* whatever your missing the point and to explane it will take to much of my time.

[jfreakzach]

4sure UNDERGROUND HIP HOP 4 LIFE!! FUCK MAINSTREAM N WATS ON THE RADIO

[Ratix0]

Lol nobody likes nigger rap.

[ShantiIly]

my ass bitch

[GmanX50]

...anymore. But I digress. It's Korean rap nao!

*cough*starian*cough*whitelove­*cough*

*cough*howdeepisyourlove*cough­*don'tbotherme*cough*

...unless Des-row and Asaki make more epic stuff.

[Myownpickle]

lol, Daikenkai is like Crank Dat all the way through..

I mean, sorry, other way around. The only thing we can be happy about is that Soulja boy is a one hit wonder and we will never hear from his rip-off ass again.

[radabminj]

Thats not the only song that piece of commercial shite blatantly ripped off. Listen to Toss It Up. Fuckin rip off bastards makin millions off other peoples work

[kudosana54]

OH MY FRIGGIN GOD, i could have told all of you that. but no, it takes someone to play it for you just for you to realize. anyway, yeah, crank that does get old and (coming from a black guy) i hate soulja boy. im gonna stick to J-Pop and J-Rock cause as caseyddr said, black rappers cant come up with anything original.

[GmanX50]

Nobody REALLY liked Crank That in the first place. If I EVER hear another popularity-hypnotized classmate saying Daikenkai "sounds just like Soulja Boieee!! OMG Japs ripped off!", I'm gonna go "SOMEBODY SCREEEEAM"!!!

[xopher314]

Somebody's cream.

[NikaaXIII]

Hahah! YESS!!! I knew it!

[brother911]

RIPOFF

[caputnick67]

i fuckin hate rap, but daikenkai is another story :P

[ehf4eva]

OWN

[xyie09]

LOL.

[caseyddr]

What'd you expect? A black person to come up with something original? seriously now...

[Chardmalamune]

I have two black friends, and that was the funniest damn thing I've read all evening.

[cristhesword]

i have to agree with you too

[Lethys1]

lol, sounds like a remix of the 2 songs

[xepher13]

i knew the two songs sounded alike but i didnt think that they would be that much similar when you play them over each other...

also, in responce to MageKnightWerewolf, if you speak japanese and then you listen to daikenkai you'll find alot of similar words. but also like Mage was saying Crank that gets old fast....while i could sit and listen to daikenkai all day if i wanted to without getting bored. but this is all in my opioion

[MageKnightWerewolf]

Well, though there is a slight similarity, how do we even know that Soulja Boy kid even knows this song to copy it?

And as KaiManga12 says, very similar tempo, but nothing more really.

Still, Daikenkai is an awesome song, absolutelyt love it on DDR, where as Crank That gets very annoying, very fast.

[KaiManga12]

Honestly, I really don't hear a similarity. The tempo is the same, yes, but there are plenty of other songs with the exact same tempo, I'm sure. Now, if, say, the same guitar riff was found in Crank Dat, then you'd have an argument. Either way, though, Soulja Boy sucks. Daikenkai is far better.

[GhettoDawg]

Yeah soljah boy sucks, but that's the stupidest thing i've ever fucking heard in my life, and who the hell cares if his tempo is similar doesn't mean he copied it and even if he did it's irrelevant, I'm sure the lyrics aren't anywhere near similar. And the beat is nothing like the other one. If I had no life and I weer to compare songs I guarantee I could find similarities between many.

[Doomfool]

Is rap music SO BEAT DOWN that musicians have to resort to stealing from eachother?

I apologize to Des-Row on behalf of the entire United States of America.

[Fishyboy632000000]

This is not true, because Soulja Boy sucks whereas Daikenkai is a great song.

[Mudkip0]

no coincidence

[v4extreme]

you beat me to it! I was going to do this!

[Jaxsonvideos]

OMG!I knew it sounded familiar!I freaking own that song all the time on DDR!

[mtshhh]

you're over reacting!! People are acting like its exactly the same, they hardly sound alike!

[GodLovesMe666]

Either you're deaf or you're just a fucking idiot.

[lioness4113]

People keeping telling me that, but honestly I don't really see that much of a similarity...>.> I'm not tone deaf or anything, I just fail to see how Soulja Boy is a rip-off of Daikenkai.

[GodLovesMe666]

You're tone deaf.

[myric3ballz]

OMG hahah i thought taking the name soulja from an original japanese artist was a coincidence but now this??? holy shit!

copy and paste this into the search box: 【PV】ここにいるよfeat.青山テルマ/SoulJa

[neechecha]

OH GOSH!!!! ME AND MY FRIEND WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT COUPLE MONTHS AGO!!!! D:

it IS not a coincidence XD

[zombiebackrub]

if they were singing and the notes were the same, then i'd say yeah it's stolen. but they are both rapping! you can't own a rhythym, especially not a rhythym as simple as this

we need a full length mash-up now, however

[johnnyboy8]

Who knows...Someone should ask him personally...^^;

[FlonneAdmirer]

Gosh, I didn't know that there was another song. ^^; Very similar to Soulja Boy's tune but the other one was released earlier? ^^;

[JustTwon]

Aw man. XDDDD I thought I was the only one that thought of this.. well props to you. XDD

[xREV0LUTI0Nx]

ok first of all Soulja Boy didn't steal anything. I'm not a fan of him but unless the lyrics are the same he didn't steal anything. They just sound a little similar. Has anyone noticed that Fall out boy and Panic! At the disco sound alike, yeah but no one really cares and they're the same genre of music. These two songs aren't even the same genre. And to be honest i didn't notice any similarity uthil this video. did you?

[DJRedrumofEPG]

I did, because I'm an avid Bemani music game fan. It's not like Soulja Boy really intentionally stole it, it's justa huge conincidince. People need to stop takin shit so seriously...

[xREV0LUTI0Nx]

tthanks someone agress. I don;t think he would steal it from a japanese arcade game

[jthamexican]

I probably play more Bemani than you and I've owned the DES-Row CD for quite a while now and have never noticed it. They really aren't that similar after hearing this. And I hate soulja boy

[Crisel15]

HE STOLE IT @_@

[demoman87]

I'm giving this four stars because that nice little mix in the end.

[darkalbedox2]

For the record, Daikenkai originated in 2001, on Pop'n Music 6. The song was then ported to DDR Extreme.

[darkalbedox2]

Well, now I see someone already posted this fact a few months ago.

Disregard this.

[PastaBall]

Noted, and correct. But honestly, I find it hard to believe a 17 year old kid from Alabama has ever had significant exposure to Pop'n. DDR, on the other hand, I wouldn't doubt.

[captaintrebek]

I lawled

[BokuWaSatoshi]

those basterds, stealing songs >=(

[Slayzer89]

As a Bemani and DES-ROW fan.. I must say that I am deeply offended by this crime. How dare they steal such a song! bwahahaha

Great job man!

[customstuff]

Eeny Meeny Miney Mo, Catch a Tiger by the toe... OMG HE STOLE IT :O lol

[MaxXWeapon]

You have to understand that music itself is a repost of a repost of a repost, although edited. The good songs are the reposts that are done especially well.

[PastaBall]

Too bad that doesn't apply to this song.

[iirovoodoo]

how come if solja boy isnt original how did he become so famous??

[andoru69]

thats beacause he's a rapper in america and des-row is only a band that has random vocalists in it