We all know Soulja Boy was the first rapper to do almost any and everything a rapper can do (duh). All jokes aside, he truly was ahead of his time with songs like “Crank That” and building wealth through ringtone sales, to the tune of a reported $15 million.
His 2008 hit, “Kiss Me Thru The Phone” also generated quite a bit of money for Soulja, as he revealed he was making more than $100K per month at the peak of the song’s powers. How was he doing this? Fans were calling and texting the “678-Triple 9-8212” number that Sammie famously sings in the song.
Soulja says, “Let me tell y’all the real story. Boom. So that number was like a fan line. So every time somebody called that number, I was getting paid off of that shit. It was like a subscription. You could text it or call it. So I was probably making like $100,000 a month off of that, just people calling that number.”
Unfortunately, the company he had the number with shut down. Soulja’s determined to get it back though, and for that kind of monthly money, I would be too!
