It was only after I saw him in fundamental denial about how successful his fundraiser was going to be that it finally occurred to me: What if B.o.B doesn't believe any of this flat Earth stuff at all? What if this is all an elaborate hoax or social experiment? Joaquin Phoenix kept up his deeply uncomfortable, bizarro, beardy persona for his mockumentary, I'm Still Here, for over a year before it became clear what was really causing him to act so strangely.Ĭould it be possible that B.o.B is merely holding a mirror up to the post-truth-iness of our current age and seeing how many people he can get to stand up for science? Nothing in B.o.B's background, before 2016, suggested the levels of absolute irrationality that he is currently displaying. When B.o.B upped the limits of his fundraiser to a million, he explained why in this video: No word yet on why NASA and the government would be lying about the shape of the world, but, on a surface level at least, he seems to be sticking with it. It seems that the more people who try to engage with him about the shape of the Earth, and the more publicity he receives around the subject, the more B.o.B doubles down on his theory that the globe is a vast conspiracy. On January 24 of that year, the rapper posted this: That's not even everybody he's collaborated with, but it does reflect the scope of his popularity and talent.Īt the start of 2016, things took a weird turn for B.o.B though, when he started speaking out in his music, and on Twitter, about his belief that the Earth is flat - a notion that would be comedic if it wasn't so inherently opposed to anything rational or sensible.

and Ty Dolla $ign ( '4 Lit'), Lil Wayne ( 'ET'), Trey Songz (on 'Not For Long'), Future ( 'Ready'), Jessie J ( 'Price Tag'), and even Weezer's Rivers Cuomo ( 'Magic').

It started with Bruno Mars in 2010 with 'Nothin' on You,' and since then, he's worked with Taylor Swift (on 'Both of Us'), Nicki Minaj (on 'Out of My Mind'), Hayley Williams (for 'Airplanes'), 2 Chainz ( 'HeadBand'), T.I. His collaborations alone speak volumes about both his versatility and the amount of love for this man in the world of music.

Remember B.o.B? The rapper and vocalist from Georgia, who used to fill us with unfiltered joy thanks to this sort of thing?ī.o.B has been in demand for years.

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