Soulja Boy is firing back after DJ Akademiks labeled rappers who stream online as “lame” and “corny.” During a recent livestream, the veteran rapper didn’t hold back.
“Akademiks, you need to fix your tweets, na,” Soulja Boy said. “Talking ‘bout all the rappers is lame ‘cause they streaming… Shut the fuck up with your fat, Uber Eats, McDonald’s-eating ass, 50 Krabby Patties stuffing down your stomach. You lame. Ain’t nobody lame, na. N***as can stream if they want to. Fuck is you talking ‘bout? Fat piece of shit.”
Soulja Boy, known for calling out Blueface and his finances recently, also claimed he was the first rapper to get into Twitch streaming. He pointed out that he streamed on the Twitch precursor, Justin.tv, back in the late 2000s.
“I don’t like the way you been tweeting,” Soulja added. “Akademiks, you fat hot dog-eating bitch… Nas will smack the shit out your fatass, talking ‘bout some Carti and YB… Don’t forget you got banned on Twitch. … Na, punch you in your chest and you gonna cough up a chicken nugget. How we lame because we wanna get some Twitch money? I was the first rapper on Twitch; I feel like you’re calling me lame.”
Soulja’s response comes after Akademiks shared a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that the internet has stripped rappers of their mystique. “If I signed a rapper I’d forbid them from going on any streamer platform,” he wrote. “Every time I see a rapper on a stream I’m reminded… dis n***a lame like me he just won the lottery. … 2025 exposed all our fav cool rappers besides YB and Carti as being lame asf. … They just like us … w/ a lil more money n clout.”
Earlier, Akademiks also expressed during a livestream that rappers are now competing with full-time streamers. He referenced popular internet figures like Kai Cenat, Adin Ross, and N3on, highlighting how collaborations between rappers and streamers have elevated the latter’s clout. “When they were chasing numbers, they all went to streamers. The rapper collab with the streamers is what got these guys to record levels of clout,” he said.
Soulja Boy’s explosive remarks reinforce that streaming is now a battleground for respect and influence in hip-hop, and he’s making it clear: the internet doesn’t define who’s “lame.”
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