B.o.B

[[File:Rapper B.o.B 2013.jpg|thumb|right|165px|B.o.B, not "Bob"]]{{conspiracy|1}}{{hatnote|Were you looking for '''[[Subgenius|"Bob"]]'''?}}
{{Cquote|Now the [[David Icke|mirror lizard]]'s breath got the [[clones]] scared cause<br>Woo, use your, use your [[common sense]]<br>Why is [[NASA]] part of the department of defense?<br>They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees<br>Feeding kids [[Freemasons|masonry]], bruh, be careful what you read.|||Excerpt from his song "Flatline". Just a small taste of B.o.B's [[crank magnetism]].<ref>[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bob/flatline.html "Flatline"]</ref>}}
'''Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr.''' (a.k.a. 
'''Bob'''
 '''B.o.B''') {{lived|1988}} is an American [[Hip-hop|rapper]] and [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]].

He is mostly known for 
pretending that airplanes in the night sky were like shooting stars
 his 2016 Twitter brainfart wherein he endorsed the [[flat Earth]] hypothesis.

==Flat Earth==
In January 2016, B.o.B decided to share his insights that the [[Flat Earth|Earth is flat]] based on extremely old and [[science|unscientific]] arguments. Astrophysicist [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]] responded to B.o.B's statements, countering them with science.<ref name="flatearth">{{cite web|title=[http://time.com/4193114/neil-degrasse-tyson-bob-earth-flat/ Neil DeGrasse Tyson tries teaching rapper B.o.B that the Earth is actually round]}}</ref> B.o.B did to Tyson what rappers usually do to other rappers, and he released a {{wpl|Diss track|diss track}} aimed at Tyson called "Flatline" (though what the "n" is doing in the name is an open question, since he never pronounces it—appropriately enough, given the claim being made). The song further expresses B.o.B's bogus opinions, and is sprinkled here and there with some other conspiracies, mostly those revolving around NASA.

However, Neil deGrasse Tyson's nephew Stephen is also a rapper, and the two collaborated together to release a song aimed back at B.o.B, titled "Flat to Fact",<ref>{{cite news|last1=Platon|first1=Adelle|title=[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/6858203/neil-degrasse-tyson-bob-diss-track-flat-to-fact Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to B.o.B Diss Track with Drake-Referencing 'Flat to Fact']|accessdate=27 January 2016|work=Billboard|date=26 January 2016}}</ref> in which Tyson hilariously stated at the end, "To be clear, [[Pwned|being five centuries regressed in your reasoning, doesn't mean we all still can't like your music]]."

Tyson then appeared on ''The Nightly Show'' on Comedy Central, where he stated, "It's a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Small sections of large curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it... And by the way, this is called [[gravity]] [literally drops the microphone]."<ref>
{{cite web |title=[http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/29/entertainment/neil-degrasse-tyson-bob-flat-earth-twitter-spat/index.html Neil deGrasse Tyson fires back at B.o.B with epic mic drop]|last1=Said-Moorhouse|first1=Lauren|work=CNN|date=29 January 2016|accessdate=29 January 2016}}</ref>

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One would think that, as a wealthy entertainer, B.o.B could afford to simply charter a flight to the edge of the Earth in order to prove his doubters wrong.

[[File:Erdkrümmung, Alexander Dahl vom 31.8.1933.jpg|thumb|right|165px|The first image showing the Earth's curvature, from 1933]]
On September 21, 2017, B.o.B. launched a GoFundMe campaign to try to raise US $1 million to purchase and launch 1 or more satellites to "research" the curvature of the Earth.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170926221510/https://www.gofundme.com/showBoBthecurve Show BoB The Curve] (September 21, 2017) ''GoFundMe'' (archived from September 26, 2017).</ref><ref name=gardenberg>[https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/9/26/16369890/bob-flat-earth-satellite-gofundme-scam-crowdfunding-conspiracy B.o.B's $1 million flat Earth conspiracy satellite GoFundMe is a scam: It should go without saying, but please don't donate money to this] by Chaim Gartenberg (Sep 26, 2017, 4:44pm EDT) ''The Verge''.</ref> Unlike Kickstarter and Indiegogo, GoFundMe is exceedingly lax with regard to the ability of people to scam donors; GoFundMe doesn't actually require recipients to do anything with money received.<ref name=gardenberg/> Nonetheless, on September 26, 2017, GoFundMe felt compelled to temporarily suspend B.o.B.'s campaign even though it did not violate the terms of service.<ref name=gardenberg/> Subsequently, the goal of the campaign mysteriously changed to "purchase and launch multiple weather balloons and satellites into space, for experimental exploration."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171129020647/https://www.gofundme.com/showBoBthecurve Show BoB The Curve] (September 21, 2017) ''GoFundMe'' (archived from November 29, 2017).</ref> The experiment can be and has been conducted nowadays for just a few hundred dollars: buy a weather balloon, a helium cannister, and a GoPro camera with the fisheye lens effect removed.<ref name=gardenberg/> The earliest photographic proof of the curvature of the Earth from a balloon was in 1933.<ref>{{wpa|Alexander Dahl}}</ref> B.o.B. is still fishing for $1 million though.

==Other bullshit==
{{main|Crank magnetism}}
If the flat Earth thing wasn't enough, B.o.B is also a [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]], urging his own fans to "[[Do your own research|do their research]]" on [[David Irving]].<ref name="disstrack">{{cite web|title=[Gawker.com: [http://archive.ph/http://gawker.com/b-o-b-just-started-a-rap-war-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-1755122840 archive.ph], [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gawker.com/b-o-b-just-started-a-rap-war-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-1755122840 web.archive.org] B.O.B Just Started a Rap War With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Over His Flat Earth Tweets]}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web|title=[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/26/flat-earth-rapper-bob-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track Flat earth rapper BoB releases Neil deGrasse Tyson diss track]|last1=Brait|first1=Ellen|work=The Guardian|date=26 January 2016|accessdate=29 January 2016}}
</ref> In his song "Flatline", [[Anti-science|he declares that science is a cult]]. Adding to this soup of delusion, he believes that celebrities are being [[Cloning|cloned]] pretty much every damn second.<ref> Moore, Jack  (January 26<sup>th</sup> 2016) ''GQ.com'' http://www.gq.com/story/bob-human-cloning</ref> And to make things even crazier, he believes [[David Icke|reptilians control the universe]]. Which is greatly ironic and hypocritical considering how he first gained popularity through the record labels run by the very same "reptilian" elite and "cloned" celebrities he so despised, not to mention that some of the artists he collaborated with in his recent albums (e.g. Lil Wayne, Young Thug, T.I., Big K.R.I.T., Ty Dolla Sign, Usher, CeeLo Green among others) were also the subject of various Illuminati/occult conspiracy theories. He did move to an independent label in recent years, but whatever success he had when he first rose to the pop charts is now next to nil, and he is now viewed as either a washed-up flash-in-the-pan or a complete joke.

==External links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.o.B Wikipedia is flat! Wikimedia is a reptoid cult!]
*[https://mobile.twitter.com/neiltyson/status/691655467978919936 Neil DeGrasse Tyson's tweet.]

==References==
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[[Category:9/11 truthers]]
[[Category:Antisemites]]
[[Category:Crank magnetism]]
[[Category:Denialists]]
[[Category:Flat Earth]]
[[Category:Holocaust denialists]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Musicians]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience promoters]]
[[Category:War on science]]

Categories: 9/11 truthers, Antisemites, Crank magnetism, Denialists, Flat Earth, Holocaust denialists, Living people, Musicians, Pseudoscience promoters, War on science