About Soulja BoySoulja Boy (Real name DeAndre Ramone Way) was born in 1990 in Chicago but moved to Atlanta at any early age, where he became interested in rap music. His father provided a young Way a recording studio at only fourteen years old.His worldwide hit 'Crank That (Soulja Boy)' reached number one in the US charts and remained there for seven consecutive weeks. The album that included the single 'souljaboytellem.com' was self produced, and has sold nearly a million copies worldwide, peaking in the US charts and number 4.However, while Soulja Boy has received commercial success for this album, critical success has been harder to find, which generally poor reviews for the album. Entertainment Weekly ranked the album one of the worst rap albums of all time.Soulja Boy is currently working on this third studio album 'The DeAndre Way' which is set to be released in 2009.