Soulja Boy’s 2008 music, Kiss Me Through The Cellphone, is among the hottest songs the award-winning rapper is fondly remembered for. Following its launch, the music attained a number of feats together with being the best-selling single from his iSouljaBoyTellem album in addition to incomes the primary spot on the U.S. Rap Charts.
In addition to these successes, the 32-year-old just lately informed HipHopDX that he additionally made some cash from the quantity that Sammie sang within the music, per Advanced. “We gotta get the quantity again, man,” Soulja Boy mentioned in reference to the (678) 999-8212 quantity after he was knowledgeable it now goes to dial tone. “That quantity so legendary, man, you understand how they do. It was my quantity. It truly was my quantity at a time limit. After I first dropped that music, that was my quantity.”
Following the music’s launch, the quantity in query was used as a message system for the award-winning rapper. He additionally revealed he made some money from the quantity. “Alright, let me inform y’all the true story. Growth. In order that quantity was like a fan line,” he mentioned.
“So each time any person referred to as that quantity, I used to be getting paid off of that s***t. It was like a subscription. You would textual content it or name it, so I used to be in all probability making like $100,000 a month off of that, simply individuals calling that quantity.”
The corporate that owned the quantity in query ceased operations about three years after the music was launched. “So I assume as soon as they shut down, any person got here and obtained the quantity, you are feeling me?” he mentioned. “However I gotta get that quantity again although, for certain.”
Elsewhere within the interview, the rapper additionally revealed he initially needed Chris Brown to sing the hook to the one. “I needed to sing it myself initially, however I used to be like nah, I actually wanna give it that further really feel. And now I see the success that it obtained, I really feel like I used to be proper,” he revealed.
“I used to be attempting to get Chris [Brown] on that muthaf…ka. Chris was imagined to sing the hook, bro. I don’t know what occurred although, in order that’s why I don’t even communicate on it. Shout out to Sammie although… He killed it.”
