Soulja Boy Speaks on ‘Juice’ Remake & His Relationship With Diamond
Soulja Boy says he’s never heard the Juice soundtrack, confirms that Waka Flocka will play Raheem in the movie and responds to Lil Scrappy’s mom…
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Soulja Boy. Rapper. Internet sensation. Oscar winner? Yes, the Atlanta-based rapper is playing Bishop in the remake of the urban classic film Juice. Yet, don’t expect Soulja to share the screen with Denzel Washington any time soon. After releasing his Juice mixtape last week, Soulja is filming the mini-movie this week in Atlanta. In it, Soulja is about to sink his pearly whites into the infamous role that made 2Pac into an in-demand actor. Only time will tell if it will do the same for Soulja. XXLMag.com caught up with the 20-year-old to discuss the Juice remake, Pac, and of course, his new relationship with Diamond. —Jesús Triviño Alarcón
XXLMag.com: Why did you decide to remake Juice and not Boyz N The Hood?
Soulja Boy: The Juice thing went along with my mixtape. I got the idea first for the mixtape. Let me tell you the whole story, I was in California watching the Juice movie and I called my barber to get the Bishop haircut. Then I TwitPiced the photo and everybody went, “Ahh, man, Soulja got the Juice cut.” So I knew I had to make a mixtape. So I got in the studio and got with DJ Scream, recorded the mixtape. 450,000 downloads the first two days. After that I was like, I need to do this movie. If I do this movie and I play Bishop, I’ma tear it up, man. At the same time I’m promoting me doing music in a positive way but at the same time I’ll be breaking into the acting field. Basically, killing the bird with one stone so that’s why I picked the Juice thing.
XXL: So who’s writing the screenplay?
SB: With the screenplay Rage [Dale Resteghini] just came off a $15 million dollar movie with 50 called Gun that they shot. So they shooting the movie. Rage is the same director from “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”and “Kiss Me Thru the Phone.” I told them how I wanted it to be, but they shooting everything. We already had a couple of film festivals reach out trying to get the official premiere. The Bel Air Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival they want us to premiere the Juice film there. So we got a lot of options.
XXL: You’re shooting the film in Atlanta as opposed to New York but as far as the storyline are you sticking to the original script. For example, does Bishop still shoot the bodega owner?
SB: Actually that part is still happening where I shoot the dude in the head. There are just little details in the movie which are different. As far as the beginning of the movie they show Bishop’s nicer side where I see a little girl with her cat stuck in a tree. I get the cat. Then later on in the film when we’re about to go in and rob the bodega she sees me. I’m waiting for the last customer to walk out and she walks out and she looks at me in my eyes. I’m right there in the shadow with a gun, ‘bout to run into the store. Little things like that are different.
XXL: What did you particularly like about Pac’s role as Bishop?
SB: I was sitting and watching the movie and thought if I had to play anyone in the movie I had to play that part. I liked how 2Pac became the character. When he flipped out, that was my favorite character in the whole Juice movie.
XXL: You’ve obviously seen the film, have you’ve heard the soundtrack?
SB: Nah, I haven’t heard the soundtrack. I ain’t ever heard the Juice soundtrack.
XXL: You should really check it out. It’s one the best soundtracks of all time. Back to the remake, what role does Waka Flocka play? And who else is confirmed right now?
SB: He gon be part of my crew. He basically gon be my right hand man just like Raheem was. We start filming [today] in Atlanta but just confirmed right now it’s just me and Flocka.
XXL: Is the BET debut a done deal?
SB: We straight. That’s confirmed. We still got options on the table as far as where we’re going to premiere it. As far as TV, we still got BET on board.
XXL: The Internet is buzzing about you dating Diamond. Is it true?
SB: Ahh…yeah, it’s true.
XXL: How did y’all hook up?
SB: Man, I’ve been knowing Diamond for four years; ever since I came on the scene with “Crank That.” She’s been a cool individual and recently we started rocking heavy. Y’all already know (laughs).
XXL: Being that Diamond was engaged to Lil Scrappy, his mom is now attacking her in the press.
SB: Obviously, it’s stuff you gotta deal with when you’re a celebrity and in a relationship in the open. It don’t matter who girl it would’ve been. If you a celebrity and you dating people gonna talk. It is what it is.
This Juice remake cannot be allowed to happen.
Nuff said…I mean, the lil boy said he’s never even heard the soundtrack of the orignal movie!!! ANNND WACKA FLOCKA TOO?!?! SERIOUSLY?!
rite soulja boy neva beat tupac, he just wastin his time
Yo, this sh*t just ruined my whole damn day. “Juice” was epic. Pac, Khalil Kain, Omar Epps, Treach, shit even Special Ed had a smooth cameo. How the f*ck you never heard “Uptown Anthem” ?!? This sh*t can NOT happen. Period.
lol u aint neva lied im so upset what a fukkin #FAIL this movie will be -___-
WHYYYY IS THIS HAPPENING WAKA AND SOULJA ALREADY KILLED MUSIC, NOW THEY HAVE TO KILL ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER!! SMH THIS IS A DISGRACE TO PAC SON THIS SHOULDNT HAPPEN B REAL TALK
SOULJA BOY A WEAK ASS BITCH
PLEASE DON’T MESS THIS MOVIE UP…WHICH IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU WILL.
Hahaha!
I saw Juice and got Tupac’s haircut. When I realized other people have heard of this movie I decided to ride the shit out of it. I made a mixtape, but I’ve never hear the soundrack. Oh and I’m doing a remake with Wacka Flocka! Holy Shit!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO John Singleton cant let this go down smfh
Wow, soulja boy and waka in the remake……….this shit is gonna suck
Don’t do it!!
i love to see that the true heads are bloggin but lethim do it first then we can shit on em
nah man the point is to do it right the first time.
didnt even know this was happening til i read this article, gotta try to forget and i hope i never see this. soulja bitch gonna fuck this movie up
God, he is going to butcher a classic film ( and I don’t even hate Soulja like that) Waka acting?? I didn’t know dude could even speak properly…
Juice soundtrack had classic jams on there: Naughty-uptown anthem, Is it good to you-Tedd Riley, Eric B and Rakim-know the ledge, Big Daddy Kane-Nuff Respect, Too Short- So you wanna be a Gangster etc…
Once again Soulja Boy’s publicist steered dude wrong. Shoulda had lil homey listen to the soundtrack before the interview. For a young rapper dude has very limited knowledge of hip-hop past. He said the same shit about Ice-T how he never heard his music before he’s just “an ol ass nigga”. This dude considers 50 old school smh…
naw Q…..
“XXL: You’ve obviously seen the film, have you’ve heard the soundtrack?
SB: Nah, I haven’t heard the soundtrack. I ain’t ever heard the Juice soundtrack.”
^ how in the f**k do you watch the movie AND DON’T HEAR THE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND? THE MOVIE STARTS WITH THE LEADOFF SOUNDTRACK SINGLE.
cats thirsty for a chance to be like Tupac, when the story is about a DJ…who’s doing the dj battle scenes…
let me help y’all youngins out…go get Lex Lugar, make this “Juice” remake about him wanting to produce beats and has a battle of beats against Scram Jones, Alchemist, & Araab Muzik on the MPC and then SB and Waka can get their “Bishop” on robbing the barbershop a la Brisco style. Straight to DVD status distributed by 50′s Cheetah company.
LMAO yo you make some good points, just b watching the movie you hear the music that is in it…And that shit was bangin. .. He’s a fool. They even had a whole scene where Q is DJ battling and theres nothin but music amd scratching…
And yup..The movie isn’t really about Bishop, Omar Epp’s character is the only one that lives at the end. I don’t hate on Soulja Boy, but he’s gotta learn how to do interviews and make a mature comment or response eventually…
one of his henchmen should have told him put the juice down and chill. this has #epicFAIL written all over it.
and lmao @ dude up there saying let him do it so the populous can sh^t on him…all I’m saying is son don’t need this on his resume…say “juice inspired” not “remake”…
but yo…a MUSICIAN, who is supposed to have an ear for MUSIC, didn’t hear the soundtrack, THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF A MOTION PICTURE? ESPECIALLY when it BEGINS and ENDS with said MUSIC? and you KNOW he probably saw it on an ill HD with a banging SOUND SYSTEM too.
xxl put up a vote thread on this one, front page it so we can tell lil’ man don’t commit this blasphemous act
he didn’t hear the whole track obviously…
i agree mate. i think really XXL needs to put this on cover page so we can comment. this dude’s gonna make a fool of himself. plus he will be disrespecting the LEGEND, PAC…
why cant the hip hop cats like Nas, Rakim, Cube, Snoop and Dre say something about this???
steel survived the shots
“cats thirsty for a chance to be like Tupac, when the story is about a DJ…who’s doing the dj battle scenes…”
They are gonna make it a dance off instead, lol.