Released: February 19, 2007

Songwriter: Soulja Boy

Producer: Soulja Boy

[Hook x8]
Hey crank that dance
Watch me crank my dance (Watch me do)

[Verse 1]
I fall up in the club crank my dance on that ho
I'm scoping out the scene then I hit the dance floor
You already know what it is what it been to be
Soulja Boy ain't got no money? Hell no, you must be shitting me
But hit me on the net so I can show you where I'm from
Type it in, Soulja Boy Tell'Em dot com
But back to the topic on doing my dance on that ho
I can crank my two-step then I do the merry-go

[Hook x8]
Hey crank that dance
Watch me crank my dance (Watch me do)

[Verse 2: J-bar]
I'm in the club wylin'
Now watch me jet that shit
And now she love smiling
Because she been that shit
And if she keep trying
But you can't get that shit
He mad I can't do it like him I been did that shit
Go well, I'm murkin' the scene
Watch me roll and watch me lean
All the hoes be jocking me
Cause all the clothes I'm rocking clean
All I smoke is lots of green
[TC?] rock, the [?]
You ain't seen me crank the club
Now gonna watch me crank my dance

[Hook x8]
Hey crank that dance
Watch me crank my dance (Watch me do)

[Bridge x2]
I fall up in the club and I'm in my mack stance
And everybody screaming Soulja Boy do your dance
Do your dance
Do your dance
Do your dance

[Hook x16]
Hey crank that dance
Watch me crank my dance (Watch me do)

[Outro]
Soulja Boy Tell'Em
Soulja Boy Tell'Em dot com

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.