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TL;DR Rapper Soulja Boy is selling a new gaming handheld called the SouljaGame Flip.
The system appears to be just a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 with the artist’s brand on top of it.
Retroid has responded by stating, “He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own.”
The rapper known as Soulja Boy is back in the news today. No, the artist best known for “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” didn’t release a new song. Rather, it appears he’s trying his hand at selling gaming hardware once again. And the system he’s selling appears to be a clone of an emulation device from a well-known retro handheld gaming brand.
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In an Instagram post, Soulja Boy can be seen hawking a device he calls the SouljaGame Flip. The rapper goes on to direct the audience to his website to pick one up. Before ending the video, the artist adds that “it has Sonic, TikTok, Instagram, and everything ya need.”
Over on Soulja Boy’s website, we can see images of the device in question. From these images, it appears that the SouljaGame Flip is just a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 with a marked-up price and the SouljaGame brand slapped on top of it. In fact, it looks like the images may have been pulled from Retroid’s website.
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