The DeAndre Way
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The DeAndre Way
The DeAndre Way is the fourth studio album by American rapper Soulja Boy. It was released on November 30, 2010, by his label Stacks on Deck Entertainment, Collipark Music and Interscope Records. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The beats are often joyless, and Soulja’s boasts about his dick and his “mean mug” are bland and jaundiced.
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Sputnik Music
Soulja Boy was inventing a brand new style, which is something inherent in the spirit of the genre. However, The DeAndre Way is just the first step towards what most would dub as maturation, and pardon the triteness of his older material and lend an ear to his third full-length, and effectively, what might as well be his first.
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Rap Genius Archive
The production on this album truly captivates the tone of each individual song. This album has a significant feature to it that will assert itself as a classic with time: relevancy. In the album, Soulja calls for action against the government, social issues such as gay marriage, his relationship with hip hop, a call for action against marijuana usage, a depiction of what causes ghetto children to turn to thugs, the economic disparities of the rich and poor, and introspective storytelling at its finest.
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The Washington Post
It's Soulja's instinct for simplicity that distinguishes him: "First Day of School" is an uncomplicated paean to the most intimidating day of the year for most kids. To Soulja, it's an opportunity to preen while keeping himself firmly entrenched in the youth market.
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Parle Magazine
Though he named the record after himself, we never see a glimpse of who Soulja is as a human being beyond material acquisitions“I understand the fans, supply and demand” He says on “Grammy”. The fans might want to give deep thought into what they’re buying into. Rating: PA (Tolerable).
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Pop Matters
DeAndre Way is essentially a release designed for the folks that can't stomach the lo-fidelity, hi-insanity antics of Brandon McCartney. The randomness and self-aware satire is forsaken in favor of more simple party music, but if anyone's custom built to deliver that sort of project, it's a millionaire 20-year old who's had free reign to do just about whatever he wants in his personal life since he was 17.
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All Music
Everything wrong before is wrong again on Soulja Boy’s third effort, The DeAndre Way.
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HOT 96.3
OVERALL … I give this album a 2/5. If I’m being real and polite 75% of this album is trash and hard to listen to. I honestly think he tried too hard to prove he can rap. That 30 THOUSAND HUNDRED MILLION with Lil B and Arab only proved that he is definitely better than his friends and allies in his age bracket.
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IGN
The syrupy, sluggish flow of Soulja Boy returns on his third album. Titling the album after his real name, the Atlanta rapper set out to deliver his most personal album yet, but ends up spending too much time talking about just how rich and well-dressed he is. For a party-ready southern hip-hop album it gets the job done, but anyone looking for something more substantial needs to look elsewhere.
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Hip Hop DX
Though The DeAndre’s Way only has 10 tracks, it feels as if it has four or five too many. Between the successful singles like “Pretty Boy Swag” and the soon to be charted moments like “First Day of School” sees plenty of tracks that have no business being released through a major label.
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Planet Ill
Three years later he’s almost 21, and the growth that could have been, didn’t really happen. His latest release The Deandre Way a play on his real name, with a few exceptions, is more of the same music.
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Slant Magazine
The DeAndre Way feels like a spiritual partner to Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but also its opposite, decidedly matter-of-fact about hollowness where Kanye’s is grandly and brilliantly neurotic.
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Entertainment Weekly
"I deserve a Grammy,” declares Soulja Boy on his third album, The DeAndre Way. That's a fairly dubious claim, but the 20-year-old hitmaker's statement later on ”Grammy” that "I understand the fans/Supply and demand” is harder to argue with. DeAndre's repetitive chants and thudding beats are likely to yield more commercial successes for his résumé. And while they may not win over the Recording Academy, they can be fun in moderation.
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U Interview
The DeAndre Way, despite its inconsistencies, and thought it is, at times, compromised by Soulja Boy's dopey delivery, makes a strong case for the artist being more than a mere chancer.
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