Released: October 2, 2007

Songwriter: John Boy Soulja Boy

Producer: John Boy

[Chorus]
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me

[Verse 1]
Everybody know I got the kids yelling
"Don't get mad cause the kids like Soulja Boy Tell 'Em"
And they parents they can't see it
They blind
They wonder why they kids talkin' 'bout Soulja Boy all the time (all the time)
They can't understand they ways
They wonder why they son and they daughter got they name on they shades (on they shades)
Or why they only wear bathing apes
Or why they sit at the computer watching Soulja Boy all day
If you don't get it, it's a movement
I ain't saying that you stupid, you just need improvement (improvement)
They say the records ain't selling no more
It's cause everybody on the internet hitting download
Now it's my turn to hit it (my turn to hit it)
If you don't get it by the end of this song, you won't get it (you won't get it)
Real talk, I spit it (I spit it)
I got the kids on lock, and it's just the beginning, let's go!

[Chorus]
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me

[Verse 2]
Why you mad fo'? (Why you mad fo'?)
Why you hatin fo'? (Why you hatin fo'?)
Soulja Boy tell 'em what the streets been waitin fo'
Now I'm signed and it's goin' down (down)
Takin' over radio, TV, everything man (man)
Ain't gon' buy my time fo' no body
Ain't gon' bite my tongue for nobody
If you book me for a show I'ma crank up the whole party
While you listenin' to this song, ease your mind
If you don't get what I'm sayin, press rewind
Now right now I'm 16 (16)
But when you hear this song I'ma be 17 and runnin things (runnin things)
Superman, I started that (I started that)
But the biggest form of flattery is just a lot of copycats (lot of copycats)
It's all good cause I'm on deck (I'm on deck)
It's so 'mazing what I did with a mic and the internet (the internet)
New rappers everyday worldwide
No deals, just the fans, and the fans they on my side

[Chorus]
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me

[Verse 3]
I'm the kids' favorite rapper (yah)
Do that dance, never (yah)
If anyone else can do it I can do it better (yah)
Got the grown folks scratchin' they head, they say what's goin on?
What's so special about Soulja Boy, man what's goin on?
This all I gotta say in my rap (in my rap)
When it spread to the grown folks, man it's a wrap (man it's a wrap)
If you hatin' better pump your breaks (pump your breaks)
Don't get mad cause the kids fans and they watchin my face
(We love you Soulja Boy!)
(We love you Soulja Boy!)
(We love you Soulja Boy!)
(We love you Soulja Boy!)

[Bridge]
Soulja Boy my favorite rapper!
No, he my favorite rapper!
No, my favorite rapper!
Yahhh!
Yahhh!
Yahhh!

[Chorus]
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't-don't-don't-don't get mad cause the kids like me
Don't get mad cause the kids like me
(Fade out)

Soulja Boy

DeAndre Cortez Way (b. July 28, 1990), better known as his stage name Soulja Boy, is a rapper, producer, and social media influencer born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Atlanta, Georgia whose debut single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would hold that spot for seven non-consecutive weeks.

At 15 years old, Soulja began uploading songs to SoundClick and eventually moved to YouTube and MySpace. By March 2007, he came up with the concept behind “Crank That” and uploaded the song—and a video of its accompanying dance—online. Two months later, in May 2007, “Crank That” started to go viral. He signed to Interscope Records in the same month. By October, his major label debut album Souljaboytellem.com was released and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. But critics quickly blasted his simplistic lyrics and unorthodox flows, questioning whether or not he’d just be a one-hit wonder.

“Crank That” earned him a Grammy nomination and he would continue to find success with the songs “Kiss Me Thru the Phone”, “Turn My Swag On”, and “Pretty Boy Swag”. He’s released mixtape after mixtape, left Interscope, made noise with rumors of signing with YMCMB and eventually launched own label Stacks on Deck Entertainment.