The Earth is most certainly, positively, and unequivocally a sphere, but somehow B.o.B. must have missed the memo. The “Strange Clouds” rapper spent the better part of two days wrapped up in an insane Twitter rant in an attempt to convince his followers–and maybe even himself–that the world is actually flat.

Eventually B.o.B.’s bizarre tweets landed him into a heated argument with a famed astrophysicist that inspired him to write a propaganda-filled “diss track” that also casually features some Holocaust denial. But in order to understand how we even got to this place, let’s start at the beginning.

It all started when the Atlanta rapper posted a picture of himself with a peculiar question attached.

The cities in the background are approx. 16miles apart… where is the curve ? please explain this.

The cities in the background are approx. 16miles apart… where is the curve ? please explain this pic.twitter.com/YCJVBdOWX7

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

He then proceeded to support his theory with pseudoscientific photo evidence including the following gems:

Time-lapse photos of stars form perfect circles… how is this possible ? pic.twitter.com/d9d1sJja8z — B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

pic.twitter.com/POO02Sl6aV

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

pic.twitter.com/UFdFyEwb4M — B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

No matter how high in elevation you are… the horizon is always eye level … sorry cadets… I didn’t wanna believe it either.

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

Gleason’s Projection pic.twitter.com/7AB50swI2Y — B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

For the sake of this post and your scrolling fingers, I can’t include all of B.o.B.’s fantastic tweets, but in case you’re curious they can all be found here for your viewing pleasure.

Now, B.o.B. isn’t the first celebrity to publicly endorse this archaic theory, which has in fact been refuted by the entire scientific community. Just a few weeks ago Tila Tequila surfaced from reality dating show obscurity to post hundreds of angry capitalized conspiracy theory tweets, which included her own #FlatEarth theories.

Luckily this time around, science found its savior in famed astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who took a few minutes of his day to disprove several of B.o.B.’s supposed facts.

He started off first by challenging B.o.B.’s skyline theory.

pic.twitter.com/bKCDLPgxYb

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

@bobatl Earth’s curve indeed blocks 150 (not 170) ft of Manhattan. But most buildings in midtown are waaay taller than that. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016

Next, he took on B.o.b.’s supposed North Star evidence.

pic.twitter.com/RxIERI1St6

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016

@bobatl Polaris is gone by 1.5 deg S. Latitude. You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you’ve never looked up. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016

@bobatl Flat Earth is a problem only when people in charge think that way. No law stops you from regressively basking in it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016

But just because Tyson probably thinks B.o.B. is an idiot now, doesn’t mean he still won’t jam out to his Hayley Williams “Airplanes” collab.

@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016

The Cosmos is knowable. When childhood curiosity persists as an adult, it inoculates against others telling you what to think

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 26, 2016

Unfortunately B.o.B. responded to Tyson’s comments the way most rappers respond to people saying things they don’t like–he wrote a “diss track.”

In a song titled “Flatline” (get it, since the Earth is flat now), B.o.B. spends over three minutes explaining the conspiracy to cover up Earth’s “actual” shape. If that wasn’t enough, he even throws in some Holocaust denial for good measure with the lines, “Stalin was way worse than Hitler, That’s why the POTUS gotta wear a Kipper.”

Clearly if B.o.B. keeps this up he’s going to find many more foes than friends willing support his cause. That being said, he still refuses to back down, tweeting, “No I’m not crazy, Yes I’m feeling fine, no I’m not doing anything stronger than weed, am I doing this to promote my music .. No..”. He later added,

Since all mass media wants to make me look crazy and drag me through the mud… make sure you mention the cloning centers I talked about

— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016

Alexis Evans

Alexis Evans is an Assistant Editor at Law Street and a Buckeye State native. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a minor in Business from Ohio University. Contact Alexis at aevans@LawStreetMedia.com.

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