Careercow B.o.B - rapper, flat earth conspiracist, releases diss track against Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[Lurch]

A strange case in that this guy is a legitimately famous and successful artist. About a day ago he randomly went on a Twitter rant about how the earth being round is actually a conspiracy by NASA, and questioning the moon landing as well. He even went so far as to call out Neil DeGrasse Tyson and has been arguing with him for the past day or so, linking to two-hour-long YouTube videos and just generally flipping the fuck out. It culminated earlier today with him releasing a diss track against Tyson in which he also encourages his listeners to read up on the works of infamous Holocaust denier David Irving.

Here's the diss track, his Twitter, and a few screencaps:

Spoiler: Lyrics to the above track if you don't feel like listening

Verse 1

Yo, you ain’t seen my best
Checkmate, ain’t a game of chess
Globalists see me as a threat
Free thinking, got the world at my neck
Hah, am I paranoid? Picture Malcolm X
In a room full of pigs, trying not to bust a sweat
Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest
They’ll probably write that man one hell of a check
Aye, I’m over here on this side of town
Come on over, over, over, over here try to clown
Aye, I never pipe down
If they weren’t coming for me then
They definitively coming for me now
I can’t even keep my phone charged up
All this shit I’m talking, I should get my
Rappers get off of my dick, get your own bars up
Now the mirror lizard’s breath got the clones scared cuz
Woo, use your, use your common sense
Why is NASA department of defense?
They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees
Feeding kids masonry, bruh, be careful what you read

Hook 1

Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood line
Flat line, flat line
You got me once but that died, aye

Verse 2

Voice, voice, do I have a voice?
Do I give a fuck? Do I have a choice?
Joint, joint, I roll up a joint
Keep my shooters in the game like I hate to disappoint
I see only good things on the horizon
That’s probably why the horizon is always rising
Indoctrinated in a cult called science
And graduated to a club full of liars
Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim
Fuck you and your team, you could sit on the bench with ‘em
But before you try to curve it, do your research on David Irving
Stalin was way worse than Hitler
That’s why the POTUS gotta wear a Kipper
I’m a man first ‘fore an artist
Get a lawyer, look up Doctor Richard [?]

Hook 2

Flat line, flat line
You fooled us for the last time
Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood line

Interlude: Neil Tyson

So you want to find farthest point from that center. And it turns out sea level from the equator is farther away from the center of the Earth than sea level at the poles. It has nothing to do with global warming and melting of the ice caps

(Why is that?)

Because we...Earth we know it spins, once uh...a day. Yes thank you. Three people know, uh, how long a day lasts here

(Good for row number two, they’re off to a great start)

So you, you know when you spin pizza dough it kind of flattens out. It gets wider in the middle...so Earth throughout it’s life, Earth, even when it formed, it was spinning. And it got a little wider at the equator that it does at the poles. So it’s not actually a sphere, it’s oblate, it’s officially an oblate spheroid

But not only that, it’s slightly wider below the equator than above the equator

(A little chubbier?)

Little chubbier, chubby’s a good word, it’s like pear-shaped. It turns out the pear-shapedness is a bigger than the height of mount Everest above sea level

Hook 2

Flat line, flat line
You fooled us for the last time
Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood line
Dead

According to Wikipedia, he dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, so there's that.

 

[Curt Sibling]

I love it when quasi-educated conspiracy tinfoils attack highly-qualified specialists!
And, how can anybody with even half a brain cell believe in flat earthism...?

 

[Fallensaint]

Do you have anything more? The OP is light on content.

 

[c-no]

I love it when quasi-educated conspiracy tinfoils attack highly-qualified specialists!
And, how can anybody with even half a brain cell believe in flat earthism...?

Through various factors like believing the pictures of a round earth were a conspiracy from the USSR or the United States government. These people would be laughed by all, even the ancient Greeks since they themselves (most iirc) said the earth wasn't flat.

Do you have anything more? The OP is light on content.

Yeah, OP should go more in depth. Maybe share a bit more on this guy with what he post such as more tweets that support him being some conspiracist. Maybe offer a critique on his music if he is like some other lol-cows that try to make their own music. Speaking of music, this B.o.B is the same B.o.B that at least some if not most would be thinking of, a legit musician. Perhaps one could share whatever past antics he has that do fall under the category of lol-cow.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

He needs to slow down on the drugs

 

[Lurch]

Did some editing to the OP, hope it's a little more informative.

 

[nude tayne]

a few options here:

- this is some kind of bizarre post-internet relevancy ruse. celebrities do a lot of weird shit as comeback vehicles, appearing to go totally nuts on the internet gets people interested in your failing career very quick. how many people do you think were wondering "what is this dude doing" before he did all this shit? how many people do you think are interested now?
- this dude is gonna appear on love and hip hop or some show like that and is currently establishing his reality tv persona
- this is a tila tequila-esque genuine descent into madness and everybody noticed just now. see also: jose canseco
- he's just really, really dumb

for those who don't recognize this guy, his career up until this point was pretty bland and cookie-cutter, especially by hip hop standards. i can't think of anything he could have done that would have merited any kind of real attention on here. years and years ago, tyler the creator mentioned wanting to murder BoB in some edgy way and BoB immediately attempted to ether the entirety of odd future, which was kind of weird because he had such a radio-friendly persona. there's also a track somewhere with him and hopsin and tech n9ne where he tries the horrorcore angle, which is also kind of weird for the same reasons.

either way, he is no longer pretending that airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars. now he believes it

p.s. Joe Budden is the one true lolcow rapper

 

[Hat]

He's got some interesting views and a sub-par song, but I don't see much here that's any crazier or more interesting than your average flat Earth theorist.

This all seems to me to be a topic more suited for a celebrity gossip website.

 

[Mecha-Lenin]

Heard of this. He's stupid, yes... but hardly lolcow material.


.... Yet. Given his reaction to Niel, it's possible he might sperg out in the future. The combination of celebrety and flat-earther, if he continues sperging, might lead to something interesting.

But for now? Lets wait. Nothing to interesting yet.

 

[Sc4rface]

He also mentions the Vril and something about cloning centers. I get the distinct feeling that FEMA camps the Illuminati will show up shortly. So far it's just the regular "I have dived into the clogged toilet that is the Internet, found the Truth® and will now proceed to screamvomit it back into that very same overflowing toilet bowl", apart from the fact that I can't recall a single non-caucasian case before. But I agree, his willingness for high profile engagement shows potential.

 

[TheUltimatePickle]

He dropped out of 9th grade to pursue his music career and is legitimately pretty dumb.

It wouldn't be so bad except he has more twitter followers than any world leader.

He's not a lolcow though. This should be moved to off-topic.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Whatever happened to the "lolcows aren't celebrities" rule?

 

[The Giver]

Why does Tyson even humor this sort of nonsense.

As a scientist, if someone rejects the validity of science, there is no point in debating them. You can't win an argument if the other person doesn't care about being rational.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

I love that people are just now discovering this. Like dogg, he's been doing the weird conspiracy shit for quite awhile now. #StayWoke

 

[Cumuppance]

A successful advertising ploy.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Vril

Wasn't that something related to Naziism?

 

[Super Collie]

For comparison, this is the high point of B.o.B.'s career:

He has a very strange camera presence. It's hard to explain it, but you'll see what I mean in the Airplanes video. He moves like he only has "some" idea of rhythm.

 

[Sc4rface]

Wasn't that something related to Naziism?

Yep, it's a mystic/esoteric term thrown around mostly by people who believe Hitler escaped Berlin in '45, has hidden in a secret base on the Antarctic/Moon ever since, sends out cool semisteampunk UFOs to spy on us and most definitely has two balls.

 

[Curt Sibling]

Wasn't that something related to Naziism?

Weird history sperg ahoy...
The nazis also believed a super race using "vril energy" dwelt under the earth. And naturally, this race were all seven foot tall and blonde.
I recall reading that Adolf made veiled references to "overmen" in private speeches, and sent SS to Tibet to seek clues about them...

 

[Puppet Pal Clem]

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