Soulja Boy considered offing himself after getting robbed:

[Soulja Boy] revealed that following the incident, he felt like dying might be the only answer to his problems. “After that, that was the first time I thought to myself: ‘If I die right now, all of my problems will go away,’ ” a reflective Soulja Boy said.

Before that very moment, the rapper had never actually sat alone, quietly, to reflect on the whirlwind that shot him to stardom and its aftermath — becoming a platinum selling artist and celebrity, meeting other famous people, etc.

Walking away unscathed, Soulja Boy is not only grateful to be alive today, but is thankful he actually went through the ordeal. “I’m glad that I went through that situation. I made it out alive. I ain’t die, so it made me stronger,” said the rapper.

“The life I’m living right now is crazy. How I’m living life, being a celebrity and going through all the things that I go through, I don’t ever really think about it. Like never,” Soulja Boy explains. “I do things, but I never really just think about it. After that situation happened that night, I really was just sitting thinking like ‘I’m Soulja Boy and my life has changed’… I never thought like that before.”

“I think that everything that I’m going through is happening for a reason,” he explained. “It’s for me to share life and show people. That’s why I do the YouTube. People look at it like stupidity. But I look at it like I’m showing people who was in my position a couple years back — who would never get the chance to go to Japan or buy a Lamborghini cash, just to show a young brother doing it at my age. It’s showing them that’s its possible for them to do it too.”