Soulja Boy Claims He’s The ‘Godfather’ Of Rap, Taught Drake Everything He Knows

Soulja Boy is saying some pretty heavy things in a new interview with The Breakfast Club. This morning, the Atlanta emcee took responsibility, at least partially, for the success of Drake and Migos.

After dissing the notion that Drake is the biggest rapper alive, the 28-year-old chimed in, “Stop playin’ with me like I ain’t teach Drake everything he knows. Y’all ain’t heard Drake on his first song ‘Miss Me’ … That’s Soulja! That’s my bar! He copied my whole f–kin’ flow!”

He also took credit for discovering Migos after they both recorded songs over the same Zaytoven beat in Soulja’s “Teach Me How to Swag Part II” and the Atlanta trio’s 2013 breakthrough “Versace.” 

“I called them n—as and I was like, ‘Yo n—a, that’s my beat. What’s up with y’all n—as.’” he explained. “‘Oh my bad bruh, you know how Zaytoven do. He send every rapper in the game the same beat.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, you know what? We got to make some music together. ‘ We got cool off that. That was 2012, n—a. I knew the Migos before Drake did.”

He also answered the claim that he’s the “Godfather” of rap: “It’s facts. It sounds crazy. When people sit back and listen they be like, ‘Yo, this n—a crazy.’ No! I’m just that n—a and them just facts. It sounds so unbelievable that I done did it, but I really done did it.”

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