this escalated SO FAST, you went from saying "he realeased some albums that didn't chart well" to "and then he denied the holocaust happened" in less than a minute
This dude was on my football team in middle school. We went to Henderson middle in Atlanta. He was trash on the field but his poetry skill was insane. Yeah even in middle school. We had to a do a project in literature class everyone had to write their own poems. Dude DESTROYED IT. He was always quiet with headphones on. He never was seen without headphones. Damn crazy how my boy blew up
@@CatastrophicTV ??? He was known around the globe for years and still is Noone stays relevant forever You can't say someone didn't blow up because they didn't stay relevant for centuries
It's so sad that I literally forgot all about him, he was HUGE 10 years ago. It's so crazy to think hes the one who gave Bruno Mars his breakout start in music to the mainstream public with "Nothing on you." To think the guy in the background of the music video smiling playing drums would be one of the biggest artists out rn and possibly one of the best artists ever in my personal opinion is absolutely insane.
@@chaylintaylor2825 “Can we pretend that airplanes in the night skies are like shooting stars? Well, you ‘gon really need a wish right now when my goons come through and start shooting stars” like r u kidding me
The route was either being a Grade A troll in pretending to be a conspiracy theorist...or a legitimate lunatic that was actually one. If it was an act, he committed too deeply.
@@RagnarokMic flat earth didn’t just come up as a conspiracy. It was out for years in the 1800s 1700s and in early 1900s. It just resurface in the 2000s by a guy name Erick Dubay.
@@itsmeharperjacksons6633 because spreading lies is harmful. This is why we have anti-vaxxers taking animal dewormers because they think that cures COVID.
@@moonlightcrystal123 okay I completely understand the covid issue because that's just stupid but someone saying the earth is flat is silly but it's not that big of a deal
@@kiana9941 drake, nicki Minaj, 2chainz, big sean, ty dolla sign, logic, asap rocky and ferg, kendrick, j Cole, kid cudi, schoolboy q, mgk, french Montana, young thug, travis scott, meek mill, Pop smoke (RIP) and migos became big sometime in the 2010s and still get plays and are still relevant today. PS: Ik that 2chainz, kendrick and french montana have been rapping since the 2000s but they didn't get big until like 2011. And I'm aware drake, kid cudi, nicki minaj and j Cole actually got big towards the end of 2009/early 2010.
He still putting out music, it's the best he's ever put out. Insomnia, Murd n' Mercy, and all of the Elements mixtapes are just absolute art. I'm glad B.o.B. broke out of the industry and is just himself now. I can't wait to hear his next shit, it'll be dope as fuck just like everything else 💯💯💯
@@dannywayne311 Better than Drugs just released! I fuck with the intro, "Scenic Route", "Blue" and "Jace Interlude" so much. The album is still nice and experimental like most B.o.B projects.
B.o.B is by far THE BEST musical artist alive.. his newer shit is fire! Way better than 10 years ago!! Full of conscious lyrics with actual substance rather than the trashy "money bitches & guns" garbage that is put out by the vast majority of rap artists in the music industry.. I really can't help but look forward to what is still yet to come..
Ironic how he released a song named "Airplanes" and then became a flat earther, like bro just look outside the airplane window you'll see it isn't flat💀
I miss the time of collabs with BoB, Gym Class Hero’s, older style Bruno Mars, old style Jason Derulo, Flo Rida, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, pitbull, Ludacris and so many more.
was listening to gym class heroes and some travie mccoy the other day. Wow what a time to have been alive. Ludacris was a beast and macklemore and ryan lewis had you consciously in your feelings.
I recently just played keys on tour with Bob. He’s a real good dude, but d definitely had some bumps in his journey. After working with him I can say he truly loves music and is still putting out some really dope stuff.
@@LaidBack-- I low-key think so too, but in the late/early 2000s I was in high school and just had some of the best years of my life. So I just think that the music has the nostalgia factor that takes me back to that time, so the music by default just seems better to me. But HELL YEAH when I look up those playlists of the early 2000s, I see that MY GOD is there great ass music from that time
I agree. It's a beautiful song. Try listening to Violet Vibrato and Have Nots from the Psykadelik Thoughtz mixtape. Slightly more recent but showed a lot of his heart
This is objectively false. I say this as someone who's been a fan since 2009. B.o.B was a phenomenal artist who made timeless music throughout his career. Listen to "One Day", "Coastline", "Joburg" and "E.T." for example. He didn't ride the wave, he created his own, so he could never be surpassed. The thing is... he changed his style. His music didn't become dated even by mainstream standards, have you not listened to Ether or any album after that? He slowly abandoned what made him so special to make music that reflects what's popular. It got to a point where he no longer sounds unique, like he's not even trying anymore. Now he just makes what I call strip club music... he rather talk about ejaculating on women than something actually meaningful. So it's funny you say his music didn't change... it did... and for the worst.
I was on a panel the other day and trying to explain that my publisher’s target audience and * my* target audience weren’t necessarily the same thing, and boy that’s a shaky road to traverse sometimes.
@@OK-xp5xi It was a romance writers panel. I write Black queer romance, but most romances are still marketed to cishet white women. But *I* write for Black queer people, and one of the things we were discussing was editing and marketing, and how my target audience and my publishers target audience aren’t the same. Sometimes my editors will want clarification for terms (like “the itis” for instance) that Black people will understand. So there’s a but if push and pull between them wanting to market toward a whiter audience, and therefore wanting me to explain cultural terms, and me being resistant to doing that because *my* readers don’t need it.
“As an artist you try to get more fans“ … umm as an artist, you try to make the best art you can that makes people feel something. His thought process is why his career failed.
It's kind of sad that some people are so susceptible to being misinformed and misinformation is a huge problem these days he was such a good artist much love to all
What’s crazy is people say you fell off when you change your mindset. He still makes music and he still has bops. Listen to his ELEMENTS album and his Stillmatic album. They are dope! Because he refuses to sell his soul for fame you say he fell off. That industry life is crazy and a lot of people chose to not stay on the same path. He’s very smart and he reads a lot of books. I wish people understand the genius of this man and not play him like an artist that just fell off.
His new music is just him doubling down on conspiracy shit and maybe you don’t consider that falling off but me personally I do. I love doctor aiden but that’s a little different than denying the holocaust and being a flat earth fool.
I think that’s. When he fell off …. When he started trying to compensate (or what seemed like compensating) for being a “pop rapper” by making a trap album… he had a few good trap songs but his bread and butter is Rapping but on pop songs or outkast styled hip hop
Yeah, there’s more lyrics about the Illuminati, other conspiracy theories and shouting out literal holocaust deniers than there is discussion of the Earth being flat
I’m still a fan, his independent phase is honestly his best music. His past music is awesome nonetheless. But it seems like anyone T. I. mentors and let’s go start to suffer. Cher Lloyd is a great example.
His “E.L.E.M.E.N.T.S” album series he released a few years back completely produced by himself was some of the best music he’s ever made in his career. Check it out if your interested famlay, no flat earth business on those joints either just great records
Jesus, early 2010s were magical times - so many great artists (even though some of them were problematic) - B.o.b., Ke$ha, Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj... Sure, a few of them are still around, creating music and even topping the charts, but it's not the same...
He still making music and its better then Nothing on you f main stream music his underground mixtaps way better then his mainstream music. At least hes speaking facts f the government and someone who aint scared to diss the government earned my respect.
Oddly, his EARLY song with Asher Roth "F the Money" predicts the ebb and flow of his career. "I'm gonna make a lot of money, and quit this crazy scene." Based on his dialogues with Brother Panic, he planned all of this... his career is only "destroyed" in the eyes of the mainstreamers.
‘His career is only destroyed in the eyes of mainstreamers’ this is exactly what I’ve thought about some artists who have fallen off, but could never word it right.
I see so many people are saying they miss his music. Just search the mans name. He still drops bangers on every project he does. Southmatic mixtape is a hidden gem
B.O.B is still a force to be reckoned with!!! Him exposing the industry and searching for the truth doesn’t mean he fell off I loved his elements album it’s one of his best albums, I wish more people would respect his art.
If You Decode The Word “Mainstream”,It Means Lie,So If You Telling The Truth Bout The World & Not Tryna Lie Or Distract Th e People,Then You’re Not Mainstream✨✌🏽
Denying the holocaust????? Jesus.... That is like spitting on all the survivors (that have since passed) faces. He can sit in his nice safe environment and say that incredible mass trauma never occured. Thank you for making that part about him, known.
He's a black male in America he's never been and never will be safe.... There have been African holocausts that were almost successful but historians don't talk much about those.
@@christinathomas1417 you're right he'll never be safe but to spit on the faces and history of survivors is the worst think you could ever do to someone.
@@christinathomas1417 the african holocausts make hitlers look like child's play but of course no one cares enough to talk about what africans went through
You should cover Carly Rae next ! She definitely took over 2011-2014 era I believe but I barely hear her hype anymore. Last time I heard of her was the "I really like you " song
He is financially set and already made his mark in music history with his mainstream success. He went back underground and unlike other rappers had the balls to make the Elements, which is better than anything he has ever done. He is financially set and tells the truth for a living. Looks like he is doing fine to me
I used to blast “I’ll be in the sky” I would listen to anything with him in it back in the day. His newer stuff is hard to listen to in more ways than one
I was listening to “Nothin On You” the other day. I still play that song as if he just released it today lol. But he has been exposing the industry within the last few years
If he really believes that slavery didn't happen, dude... seriously, u wanna make music for a black audience but u won't acknowledge how much we have risen from our chains?? Idiot.
@@strawberrylime33 right? he was saying that slavery "happened" 500 years ago but america is only 250 yrs old 🤦🏽♀️ he also said that historians are able to find dinosaur fossils but he's never seen anyone find a slave ship as evidence that they existed like.......... i really dont fuck with this man, i hope he never has a "come back" or something
@@Hopeguz3 This person did not say it was okay for Kanye to say that. They didn't even mention Kanye. Why are you confronting a random person about something they didn't say? Are you bored?
@@Hopeguz3 im confused.. im not even a fan of kanye west, i think he has said some pretty messed up things by himself, but anyways.. im talking about b.o.b🤨
If you listen closely to the song "watchers" or many other songs in his catalogue, you will quickly realize why he stopped to be a mainstream artist. He rapped about conciousness, universe, hologram, iluminatti, paranormal, religion, consipracy, human development and knowledge and many other subjects with great delivery, tight lyricism and unique flow. Industry just want you to think less and promote superficial and materialistic lifestyle so they can make a deal with some brand and sell you something. At the end of the day, There are many different styles in hip hop. Not everyone has to do the same thing.
It's incredibly ironic that the dude singing Airplanes fell so deep into "the glitz and glam and the fashion", that he totally let go of "the music that started this shit".
“Imma make allot of money, then I’m gonna quit this crazy scene.” B.o.B before he dropped his first album. If a celebrity tells you to do research on a hitler supporter, David I, that doesn’t mean they themselves support hitler. Some of us just like to promote alternate ways to look at things. “Do your own research on the topic. Then make your own mind up.” B.o.B is my favorite artist and I don’t think he has any regrets. Who wants to be that famous. Now all he has is real fans that love him and his music. Sounds like a very successful career to me.
Imagine releasing a diss song against NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON???? He had the opportunity to speak to someone who could accurately explain to him exactly why the earth isn't flat and explain other mysteries of our world, and he chose to insult him! WILD
It was a great song. Have you read academic papers from NDT? He can't tell you anything about the mysteries of the world, and he only reworks what others have established long ago.
Nothin' on you had the best visuals for a music video during its era, I wish I could go back to be 15 again and react the same way I saw the m/v for the first time. It was iconic for me
Anyone think he should do a video about Keri Hilson? More people need to know about Keri Hilson and she was so slept on. Beyonces fans harassed Keri Hilson
This man could've been legend among legends RnB rapper. He has the charisma that almost NOBODY in his time have, the way his songs written in such a beautiful way you just feel happy when listened to. Nowadays, i cherish his music, once in a while, to remember when music make life feel good in every conceivable way.
I feel like the Eminem formula, while pterfectionlized with Love the Way you Lie, started actually with Mariah. When she started doing songs with Jay Z and Busta Rhymes and others.
Earliest collaboration I can think of that didn't involve a lady singer for a romantic song is from Nas & Lauryn Hill, If I Ruled the World. Most of Mariah's collaborations with a rapper had to do with some type of romance, even if it was just a flirtatious party song (not really romantic per se). And, she was often the main feature with a guest rap verse, instead of being limited to the chorus and a few lines
He didn't sell out, he made his money and didn't eat the apple. He's still making music the same style and everything. He's living good. Not everybody I meant to be mainstream. If you know you know
"How does someone completely fall of the face of the earth? Let's discus how it all went so flat.." Bro you just had to jab that flat earth joke in there 😭
I used to be such a huge fan of B.o.B and I'm not just talking about his hit songs like Nothing on You and Airplanes. I'm talking about his mixtapes No Genre and B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray. He really was something special and I wish he would have stayed the way he was but I think the fame got to his head and he felt too pressured to change. I even bought The Adventures of Bobby Ray Simmons when it first came out. It's so sad to see him turn a fool when he did but he seems to be ok these days.
That’s because the earth really is flat.. And the Elite didn’t like him telling the truth. That’s why his career suffered. Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle OF the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in
@@sharondgaf_ I don’t listen to, nor do I believe in what man says. I believe in scripture, I believe the in word of The Most High YAHUAH. Now that’s a conversation so many aren’t ready for!.
The label wanted him to cater more to the urban/hood culture. Then he started just randomly releasing music with media coverage. His music was different he had his own lane. He dropped some good mixtape i think underground luxury was good
always thought ‘both of us’ was super underrated and should’ve been a massive hit, don’t know what went wrong with that one. great track. also a song of his everyone seems to forget is ‘so good’, at least in my city that shit was all over the radio for like 2 whole summers
The path of Spirituality is indeed a lonely one but I'm so glad he made that choice...there's more to Life than selling your soul for the money & fame plus he's making more quality songs now still. The true fans gotcha B.O.B, keep gloing🙌🏿
The dude got carried by other artists, once the façade goes away, he too went away with it.. the dude was a prototype of gym class heroes without being actually in the hip hop community..
I remember when B.o.B.’s sound took a complete 180 in 2013-2014. He went from stuff you’d hear on Top 40 radio to music you’d listen to on a hip-hop/R&B station. But denying the Holocaust? 😳
As we have seen in the past once you sign with a label the artist is under huge pressure to make hits once you fail the label just tosses you aside Thanks for your content
It would be super hard for me to pick my favorite B.o.B songs so I'll just give 5 of his songs (each one from a different project) that I think are really good: 1. "Coastline" (from Underground Luxury) (this song is especiacially good) 2. "H.A.A.R.P Music" (from Elements) 3. "Plain Jane" (from Psychadelik Thoughtz) 4. "Bombs Away" (from Strange Clouds) 5. "Ghost in the Machine" (from The Adventures of Bobby Ray)
“What’s your name B.o.B.? So they calling you bob?”
**Shakes head violently**
@@yuukina4286 um… anyways 🧍♀️
Stop playin nigga, u know that im known for the bob
@@A.B.I.- Couple hit songs, got you thinking you're a heart throb? Well this thang so good make a nigga wanna sob. *sobs*
Bitch I'm sayingggg shdsbyscj
this escalated SO FAST, you went from saying "he realeased some albums that didn't chart well" to "and then he denied the holocaust happened" in less than a minute
Yes like I’m lost
He skipped some things bob’s fall off took longer than dude explained
lol
RIGHT? I wasn't expecting an emotional roller coaster
Plus the dis track to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, like B.o.B. was really on a roll
out of my mind, airplanes, and both of us are still bops
Anerica is falling and trembling
China is rising and wil rule
@@hermeslein6614 i asked???
@@zerpent5767 I don’t give a fvck if you don’t ask cry hard American your time is over
@@hermeslein6614 still, i asked??? plus you don’t even know if i’m american or not 💀
Price tag too
This dude was on my football team in middle school. We went to Henderson middle in Atlanta. He was trash on the field but his poetry skill was insane. Yeah even in middle school. We had to a do a project in literature class everyone had to write their own poems. Dude DESTROYED IT. He was always quiet with headphones on. He never was seen without headphones. Damn crazy how my boy blew up
It’s funny how you say he blew up but the title of the video is how he destroyed his career lmao
@@CatastrophicTV ???
He was known around the globe for years and still is
Noone stays relevant forever
You can't say someone didn't blow up because they didn't stay relevant for centuries
@@packoswuids9000 bruh what i literally just thought it was funny chill tf out jesus christ
@@CatastrophicTV 🤡
@@packoswuids9000 bruh look at you
It's so sad that I literally forgot all about him, he was HUGE 10 years ago. It's so crazy to think hes the one who gave Bruno Mars his breakout start in music to the mainstream public with "Nothing on you." To think the guy in the background of the music video smiling playing drums would be one of the biggest artists out rn and possibly one of the best artists ever in my personal opinion is absolutely insane.
Who’s the guy playing the drums
@@daraudobong7195 i really wanna know too
@@daraudobong7195 it was bruno mars
He got new music out
It was insane how he went from top inescapable artist, to total obscurity
Who else is like this? Hopefully other people comment here too because this fact is wild
@@N8NiZzL3 Jessie J, but that's because she's taking care of her health and honestly good for her.
@@N8NiZzL3 flo rida? robin thicke.
@@purple1441 Oh I see, didn't know. But yea her too
@@adamwenham3 that's another 2 for sure
"He retired. Which, in rap music usually just means a short break." 😂😂
Yep, unless you're Master P.
yeah, Jay-Z, J. Cole, Lil Wayne & Logic have all "retired" at some point just to get bored enough to return
I agree with the above comment
@@droomzy nicki too 😭
@@droomzy Same with Kendrick Lamar now too
Out Of My Mind by him and Nicki is still a BOP 🔥
And he didn't want the feature
“What’s ya name b.o.b so they calling you bob
Stop playin n you know that I’m known for the bob” will always be ICONIC
@@chaylintaylor2825 “Can we pretend that airplanes in the night skies are like shooting stars? Well, you ‘gon really need a wish right now when my goons come through and start shooting stars” like r u kidding me
@@chaylintaylor2825 couple hit songs got u thinkin u a heartthrob, well this thang so good it'd make a nigga sob
@@nompumelelomashele5654 yet had no problem having White and Latino artists do features with him...the hate against Black women is real
He didn’t destroy his career. He just choose a different route in life.
Exactly lmao, “bobby ray discovered Bobby himself” they stopped promoting him cuz his views don’t align with there demonic ones smh 🤦♀️
The route was either being a Grade A troll in pretending to be a conspiracy theorist...or a legitimate lunatic that was actually one. If it was an act, he committed too deeply.
@@RagnarokMic he is not a conspiracy theorist
@@heruone3249 Flat Earthery is the epitome of conspiracy theories.
@@RagnarokMic flat earth didn’t just come up as a conspiracy. It was out for years in the 1800s
1700s and in early 1900s. It just resurface in the 2000s by a guy name Erick Dubay.
I was kinda hoping his flat earther stuff was a joke
Tell me something, what's so bad about people thinking the Earth is flat?
@@itsmeharperjacksons6633 it's wrong and stupid ?
@@itsmeharperjacksons6633 because spreading lies is harmful. This is why we have anti-vaxxers taking animal dewormers because they think that cures COVID.
@@Lena-es9jz I don't see the big deal, yeah it not true but who cares
@@moonlightcrystal123 okay I completely understand the covid issue because that's just stupid but someone saying the earth is flat is silly but it's not that big of a deal
I swear I totally forgot about him
Dude, same. Honestly, I forgot a lot of inescapable artists from the 2010s, save for a new notable exceptions even existed.
@@Beaglegirl19 Kid Cudi is the exception for real, even though he's not "mainstream" he has a LOYAL fanbase/following after all this time
I lowkey did 2 but I still like him😊
@@Beaglegirl19 I feel like the 2010s was the best time to be an artist, yet the worst time cause it was hard to stay relevant.
@@kiana9941 drake, nicki Minaj, 2chainz, big sean, ty dolla sign, logic, asap rocky and ferg, kendrick, j Cole, kid cudi, schoolboy q, mgk, french Montana, young thug, travis scott, meek mill, Pop smoke (RIP) and migos became big sometime in the 2010s and still get plays and are still relevant today.
PS: Ik that 2chainz, kendrick and french montana have been rapping since the 2000s but they didn't get big until like 2011.
And I'm aware drake, kid cudi, nicki minaj and j Cole actually got big towards the end of 2009/early 2010.
"Stop Playing Baby U know that I'm Known for The Bob" Is such a Classic Line.
Couple hit songs got you thinking you a heart throb
help I just saw you in another comment section 2 seconds ago
@@MsVitaD well this thang so good it'd make a nigga sob,
@Angela Jackson you gon be the priest and imma be the preacher 😂😂
@@A.B.I.- you can be the he-man, Imma be the she-ra
B.o.b. still makes hits to this day & all ways will, true artist respect true artist. Any one who "once was" a fan is missing out
He still putting out music, it's the best he's ever put out. Insomnia, Murd n' Mercy, and all of the Elements mixtapes are just absolute art. I'm glad B.o.B. broke out of the industry and is just himself now. I can't wait to hear his next shit, it'll be dope as fuck just like everything else 💯💯💯
Artificial Intelligence is full of hits if intelligent rap made the radio
@@dannywayne311 Better than Drugs just released! I fuck with the intro, "Scenic Route", "Blue" and "Jace Interlude" so much. The album is still nice and experimental like most B.o.B projects.
B.o.B is by far THE BEST musical artist alive.. his newer shit is fire! Way better than 10 years ago!! Full of conscious lyrics with actual substance rather than the trashy "money bitches & guns" garbage that is put out by the vast majority of rap artists in the music industry.. I really can't help but look forward to what is still yet to come..
@Chris Ray's Music add pablo escobar and you chose my favorite songs on that album.🔥🔥🔥
Exactly
Ironic how he released a song named "Airplanes" and then became a flat earther, like bro just look outside the airplane window you'll see it isn't flat💀
It isn't flat but I never can see the curvature from an airplane
you’re kidding right?
@@kaylabey yea I ain't never been on a plane
🟣🔵
@@danielmendi77 ^^
I miss the time of collabs with BoB, Gym Class Hero’s, older style Bruno Mars, old style Jason Derulo, Flo Rida, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, pitbull, Ludacris and so many more.
Fr
The Best Pop! 🥺❤️❤️
was listening to gym class heroes and some travie mccoy the other day. Wow what a time to have been alive. Ludacris was a beast and macklemore and ryan lewis had you consciously in your feelings.
I miss 2010-2011
Good times
"Let's discuss how it all went so flat so quickly"
I see what you did there, nice 😁
“Fall off the face of the earth” 👀
ELEMENTS album was a masterpiece 🌞
ELEMENTS II is currently out on Patreon
I recently just played keys on tour with Bob. He’s a real good dude, but d definitely had some bumps in his journey. After working with him I can say he truly loves music and is still putting out some really dope stuff.
i've never heard a song of his without the feature of someone else
ive just realised, same
Facts
so he was like a prototype for french montana but actually good
same 🌚
Airplanes?
Damn. The late 2000s and early 2010's was just a GREAT DAMN time in music and a great ass time to be a pre-teen/teenager
Agreed!!
Damn right
Early and mid 2000s was light years better.
@@LaidBack-- I low-key think so too, but in the late/early 2000s I was in high school and just had some of the best years of my life. So I just think that the music has the nostalgia factor that takes me back to that time, so the music by default just seems better to me. But HELL YEAH when I look up those playlists of the early 2000s, I see that MY GOD is there great ass music from that time
Shit I was only 10 in 2010 but I definitely can agree on the rest of what u said
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars 💜💙
NO
Oh god not the purple and blue heart 😭
WHY 😭💀
NOOoOoOoo 💀💀💀
That song always hurted for no reason. 💔
He has a song called “Lovelier Than You”. It’s so beautiful, especially the live version. I wish more people knew about that RnB side of B.o.B. 🤎
this is one of his best songs. the live version is just incredible!!!
Yes! He can also plays instruments which is awesome. Put me on , Lovelier Than You and Don't let me fall. Are a few of my faves from him.
I agree. It's a beautiful song. Try listening to Violet Vibrato and Have Nots from the Psykadelik Thoughtz mixtape. Slightly more recent but showed a lot of his heart
Check out 'letters from Vietnam'.Another masterpiece.
He didn’t fall off he just didn’t sell out that’s the difference everything shouldn’t revolve around money but art and truth.
He said some real shit people were not ready for....he is gonna make a comeback
I just think he era has passed. Music kinda changed but his didn’t. His music started to become really dated.
@@yuukina3517 shut up
Agreed
This is objectively false. I say this as someone who's been a fan since 2009. B.o.B was a phenomenal artist who made timeless music throughout his career. Listen to "One Day", "Coastline", "Joburg" and "E.T." for example. He didn't ride the wave, he created his own, so he could never be surpassed. The thing is... he changed his style. His music didn't become dated even by mainstream standards, have you not listened to Ether or any album after that? He slowly abandoned what made him so special to make music that reflects what's popular.
It got to a point where he no longer sounds unique, like he's not even trying anymore. Now he just makes what I call strip club music... he rather talk about ejaculating on women than something actually meaningful. So it's funny you say his music didn't change... it did... and for the worst.
You mixed he and his
@@starrgazer9 ''One day'' is an amazing song and just like you said TIMELESS. i also put ''Mr Bobby'' in that list
Another artist caught up in the battle between label pressures and community expectations
I was on a panel the other day and trying to explain that my publisher’s target audience and * my* target audience weren’t necessarily the same thing, and boy that’s a shaky road to traverse sometimes.
@@TheRonnieaj which panel is that, might I ask
@@OK-xp5xi It was a romance writers panel. I write Black queer romance, but most romances are still marketed to cishet white women. But *I* write for Black queer people, and one of the things we were discussing was editing and marketing, and how my target audience and my publishers target audience aren’t the same. Sometimes my editors will want clarification for terms (like “the itis” for instance) that Black people will understand. So there’s a but if push and pull between them wanting to market toward a whiter audience, and therefore wanting me to explain cultural terms, and me being resistant to doing that because *my* readers don’t need it.
“As an artist you try to get more fans“ … umm as an artist, you try to make the best art you can that makes people feel something. His thought process is why his career failed.
In a perfect world, yes
But a lot of artists do care about the financial gain from the music as well, more fans = more numbers
@Trololol Trololol Yep. They don’t like the music they make but their fan do. 💯🤷🏽♀️
@Trololol Trololol DRAKE
@@lotab2 facts
It's kind of sad that some people are so susceptible to being misinformed and misinformation is a huge problem these days he was such a good artist much love to all
What’s crazy is people say you fell off when you change your mindset. He still makes music and he still has bops. Listen to his ELEMENTS album and his Stillmatic album. They are dope! Because he refuses to sell his soul for fame you say he fell off. That industry life is crazy and a lot of people chose to not stay on the same path. He’s very smart and he reads a lot of books. I wish people understand the genius of this man and not play him like an artist that just fell off.
His new music is just him doubling down on conspiracy shit and maybe you don’t consider that falling off but me personally I do. I love doctor aiden but that’s a little different than denying the holocaust and being a flat earth fool.
I really hate how the hip hop community hates artists that do pop like why?
It's really so stupid and limiting...like why can an artist not be in both lanes🤷♀️
Facts! Maybe they prefer that genre of music to sing and make.
I think that’s. When he fell off …. When he started trying to compensate (or what seemed like compensating) for being a “pop rapper” by making a trap album… he had a few good trap songs but his bread and butter is Rapping but on pop songs or outkast styled hip hop
@@jordinhocharles he really should've leaned into his lane instead of fighting the current. I mean outcast is fucking legendary!!!
I think it’s because hip hop fans wanna go to hip-hop concerts. Making pop attracts pop fans (usually a younger audience)
i remember him talking about clones and shit 😭
He's also a flat earther
@@soso-mx8nb yes they cloned animals, I don’t think you realize how difficult it is to clone a human
@@soso-mx8nb exactly, why do people think when they astral project government buildings are mysteriously blocked off? please.
@@soso-mx8nb exactly, the government has been saying there’s no aliens for the longest time n now they acknowledge them🥴
@@soso-mx8nb more late term identical twin not in the science fiction sense
The most bizarre thing about “Flatline” is that it rarely even talks about the Flat Earth Theory.
Yeah, there’s more lyrics about the Illuminati, other conspiracy theories and shouting out literal holocaust deniers than there is discussion of the Earth being flat
@Ron Isley Denying the holocaust and saying that the earth is flat isn't facts!! Get your head out of your ass!
@Ron Isley Found the village idiot
Just remember,
You can always come back greater than ever
He was ahead of his time. He helped set the path and tone for alot of the way rap is made today.
I’m still a fan, his independent phase is honestly his best music. His past music is awesome nonetheless. But it seems like anyone T. I. mentors and let’s go start to suffer. Cher Lloyd is a great example.
travis scott is the exception
Iggy Azalea lmao
Agreed
Exactly. He was signed to TI so that’s why he fell off, anyone who works with TI loses. He’s the diddy of the music business. 🤣😳😳
@@crystalgray79 wouldnt diddy be the diddy of the music industry ?
His “E.L.E.M.E.N.T.S” album series he released a few years back completely produced by himself was some of the best music he’s ever made in his career. Check it out if your interested famlay, no flat earth business on those joints either just great records
I love them so much. NAGA is my favorite
I love it so much
He does rap about conspiracy stuff on one song
Lmao “flat earth business”
Ignoring the flat Earth stuff, I did like that series.
Jesus, early 2010s were magical times - so many great artists (even though some of them were problematic) - B.o.b., Ke$ha, Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj... Sure, a few of them are still around, creating music and even topping the charts, but it's not the same...
Facts!
I know 😔
I miss those days!! 🥺🥺
Fr
Facts
It sucks what happened to him... He had such good songs that will forever give us nostalgia.
He didn’t destroy his career. That man made his money & got the heck on
His decline was so sad because he’s truly talented. Miss this guys music!!!
That's true and I felt like if he had more a push from the record labels before going independent he could of been the next andre 3000
He didn't really decline he just started rapping about exposing government and that isn't marketable to the industry gate keepers
@@beattheodds6219 exactly. They started calling him insane
he just droped new album
He still making music and its better then Nothing on you f main stream music his underground mixtaps way better then his mainstream music. At least hes speaking facts f the government and someone who aint scared to diss the government earned my respect.
Oddly, his EARLY song with Asher Roth "F the Money" predicts the ebb and flow of his career. "I'm gonna make a lot of money, and quit this crazy scene." Based on his dialogues with Brother Panic, he planned all of this... his career is only "destroyed" in the eyes of the mainstreamers.
Exactly...
‘His career is only destroyed in the eyes of mainstreamers’ this is exactly what I’ve thought about some artists who have fallen off, but could never word it right.
Perfectly stated... only geeks following charts and mainstream would say he fell off... he doing better than ever and his music is better than ever
Facts. He chillen
📠 💯
We also need to acknowledge So Good, which might be his best hit single of his entire discography
YES. As soon as I hear B.O.B I think of "So Good" straight away.
Yesss this is his best song
I see so many people are saying they miss his music. Just search the mans name. He still drops bangers on every project he does. Southmatic mixtape is a hidden gem
True and he just dropped Murd and Mercy today!
@@LT1316 I just got it too and super excited never missed one album always supporting the real
B.O.B is still a force to be reckoned with!!! Him exposing the industry and searching for the truth doesn’t mean he fell off I loved his elements album it’s one of his best albums, I wish more people would respect his art.
Exactly dude still out here speaking real shit yet ppl feel since he not mainstream "he fell off"
I respect gim
If You Decode The Word “Mainstream”,It Means Lie,So If You Telling The Truth Bout The World & Not Tryna Lie Or Distract Th e People,Then You’re Not Mainstream✨✌🏽
Denying the holocaust????? Jesus.... That is like spitting on all the survivors (that have since passed) faces. He can sit in his nice safe environment and say that incredible mass trauma never occured. Thank you for making that part about him, known.
He's a black male in America he's never been and never will be safe....
There have been African holocausts that were almost successful but historians don't talk much about those.
@@christinathomas1417 you're right he'll never be safe but to spit on the faces and history of survivors is the worst think you could ever do to someone.
@@hehehehehehehehe9043 The entire dominant society and Anerican Government does that to black people 24/7-365....
@@christinathomas1417 ahhh the oppression Olympics
@@christinathomas1417 the african holocausts make hitlers look like child's play but of course no one cares enough to talk about what africans went through
I totally forgot his existence 💀
You should cover Carly Rae next ! She definitely took over 2011-2014 era I believe but I barely hear her hype anymore. Last time I heard of her was the "I really like you " song
@Sapphire from krisal gjems chill out lmao
Who?
@@c.carter3654 pop artist with no bad albums
She did the famous pop song called Call me maybe and Good Times by Owl City.
Dedicated is such a good and underrated record!
He is financially set and already made his mark in music history with his mainstream success. He went back underground and unlike other rappers had the balls to make the Elements, which is better than anything he has ever done. He is financially set and tells the truth for a living. Looks like he is doing fine to me
I used to blast “I’ll be in the sky”
I would listen to anything with him in it back in the day.
His newer stuff is hard to listen to in more ways than one
I was listening to “Nothin On You” the other day. I still play that song as if he just released it today lol. But he has been exposing the industry within the last few years
Nowadays, he’s remembered because of Mordetwi.
Can we pretend that airplanes 🦄🐦💜💙
@@absolutelynotellen in the night sky are like shooting stars 🌠
Yup😭😭😭
I still remember when I was in middle school and they would play B.o.B’s music all the time on the radio back in like 2010/2011
He woke up my friend. This world is not what you think it is.
Ps. You so focused on who fucking who, you don't realize who fucking you. - B.O.B
In shorter words he didn't want to sell himself out to labels. Much respect
Yeah lets go with that
sure...jan
He basically started exposing the matrix.
his whole "slavery didnt happen" rant made me never want to see this dude again, just stay quiet in obscurity
If he really believes that slavery didn't happen, dude... seriously, u wanna make music for a black audience but u won't acknowledge how much we have risen from our chains?? Idiot.
@@strawberrylime33 right? he was saying that slavery "happened" 500 years ago but america is only 250 yrs old 🤦🏽♀️ he also said that historians are able to find dinosaur fossils but he's never seen anyone find a slave ship as evidence that they existed like.......... i really dont fuck with this man, i hope he never has a "come back" or something
@@viquetoriaa But Kanye claimed that slavery was a choice though, but that’s okay? I’m trying to see the connection.
@@Hopeguz3 This person did not say it was okay for Kanye to say that. They didn't even mention Kanye. Why are you confronting a random person about something they didn't say? Are you bored?
@@Hopeguz3 im confused.. im not even a fan of kanye west, i think he has said some pretty messed up things by himself, but anyways.. im talking about b.o.b🤨
“When he came out” Aww good for him! 😊
“…as a person who believes the Earth is flat” 😳😳😳
I choked on my hot coco reading this😭💀
I’m choking rn 😭😭😭😭
😁😁😁
He literally went from working with Hayley Williams and Taylor Swift to making a song for Flat Earthers. He fell WAY off the deep end.
Ya away from hell lol
Even if he had weird views on shit , I mean that’s what artists do ya know
Nah his music progressed from mainstream to real shit
He smart
Only the masses say he fell off cause they have no idea how this world and Hollywood really work or who controls everything
If you listen closely to the song "watchers" or many other songs in his catalogue, you will quickly realize why he stopped to be a mainstream artist.
He rapped about conciousness, universe, hologram, iluminatti, paranormal, religion, consipracy, human development and knowledge and many other subjects with great delivery, tight lyricism and unique flow. Industry just want you to think less and promote superficial and materialistic lifestyle so they can make a deal with some brand and sell you something. At the end of the day, There are many different styles in hip hop. Not everyone has to do the same thing.
It's incredibly ironic that the dude singing Airplanes fell so deep into "the glitz and glam and the fashion", that he totally let go of "the music that started this shit".
I always loved Nothing on you better than Just the way you are
Sameee
“So flat so quickly”
I see what you did there 😂
Both of US with TS is a bop 🥲
The worst song in Taylor’s discography
It is a Bop.
@@suoutubez19 oh no, you didn't..
“Imma make allot of money, then I’m gonna quit this crazy scene.” B.o.B before he dropped his first album.
If a celebrity tells you to do research on a hitler supporter, David I, that doesn’t mean they themselves support hitler. Some of us just like to promote alternate ways to look at things. “Do your own research on the topic. Then make your own mind up.”
B.o.B is my favorite artist and I don’t think he has any regrets. Who wants to be that famous. Now all he has is real fans that love him and his music. Sounds like a very successful career to me.
The greatest story never told
Watch it^
David Irving is right
ernst zundel
Too
It's comical to read his wiki, so much slander.
B.o.b. was one of the rappers that got me into Pop music weirdly enough.
Imagine releasing a diss song against NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON???? He had the opportunity to speak to someone who could accurately explain to him exactly why the earth isn't flat and explain other mysteries of our world, and he chose to insult him! WILD
It was a great song. Have you read academic papers from NDT? He can't tell you anything about the mysteries of the world, and he only reworks what others have established long ago.
Nothin' on you had the best visuals for a music video during its era, I wish I could go back to be 15 again and react the same way I saw the m/v for the first time. It was iconic for me
Anyone think he should do a video about Keri Hilson? More people need to know about Keri Hilson and she was so slept on. Beyonces fans harassed Keri Hilson
I remember her from Timbaland's "Way you Are", "Knock You Down" with kanye and ne-yo, and "Pretty Girl Rock."
This man could've been legend among legends RnB rapper. He has the charisma that almost NOBODY in his time have, the way his songs written in such a beautiful way you just feel happy when listened to. Nowadays, i cherish his music, once in a while, to remember when music make life feel good in every conceivable way.
He called out the real Hollywood and got blackballed.
Yes!
I feel like the Eminem formula, while pterfectionlized with Love the Way you Lie, started actually with Mariah. When she started doing songs with Jay Z and Busta Rhymes and others.
Mariah Carey and Odb song Fantasy was one of the first to feature a pop singer and rapper trend.
Earliest collaboration I can think of that didn't involve a lady singer for a romantic song is from Nas & Lauryn Hill, If I Ruled the World.
Most of Mariah's collaborations with a rapper had to do with some type of romance, even if it was just a flirtatious party song (not really romantic per se). And, she was often the main feature with a guest rap verse, instead of being limited to the chorus and a few lines
@@dj_nyx8903 Mariah Carey leans more towards R&B than straight up pop music tbh. Imo at least
i would argue and say it made a resurgence bc of the meme surrounding the crack ship of twilight sparkle and Mordecai
🦄💜🐦💙
one old song in a meme didnt bring him back to relevance
He didn't sell out, he made his money and didn't eat the apple. He's still making music the same style and everything. He's living good. Not everybody I meant to be mainstream. If you know you know
He did what he was supposed to do.. break fucking free
His 'So Good' is a matter piece 💗 still listening
B.o.B got me into rap years ago and I used to bump his music a lot. He still drops music he drop a album a 5 months ago he's just doing his own shit.
can we pretend that airplanes
in the night sky
are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now
@@TheMissDerby wish right noww
“how it all went so FLAT”
I see what you did there 👏🏽
Didn't destroy his career. He told the truth. Water
"How does someone completely fall of the face of the earth? Let's discus how it all went so flat.."
Bro you just had to jab that flat earth joke in there 😭
I used to be such a huge fan of B.o.B and I'm not just talking about his hit songs like Nothing on You and Airplanes. I'm talking about his mixtapes No Genre and B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray. He really was something special and I wish he would have stayed the way he was but I think the fame got to his head and he felt too pressured to change. I even bought The Adventures of Bobby Ray Simmons when it first came out. It's so sad to see him turn a fool when he did but he seems to be ok these days.
I remember when I first bought the album too back in 2010, not gonna lie; personally, I only bought it for the Airplane single. Too damn pop for me
I still play "No Genre" mixtape til this day! Even though he has them conspiracy tracks on there("the watchers" "dr aden"...it still go hard 🔥🔥🔥
@@JohnnyBlack56ACE their were still some good ones tho. I'd recommend listening to his old mixtapes.
@@msgigglesbaby so do I! They don't make rap music like that nowadays. His flow on everything was sick.
"Completely falls off the face of the earth"
"Fell flat"
Me: hihi i see what you did there
his career ended when he became a flat earther 💀
great! because he was fucking weird
He's still making music
That’s because the earth really is flat.. And the Elite didn’t like him telling the truth. That’s why his career suffered.
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle OF the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in
@@williamdavis7515 no the earth is round, even the astronaute who literally go in the space are saying that but we ain't ready for that conversation
@@sharondgaf_ I don’t listen to, nor do I believe in what man says.
I believe in scripture, I believe the in word of The Most High YAHUAH. Now that’s a conversation so many aren’t ready for!.
The label wanted him to cater more to the urban/hood culture. Then he started just randomly releasing music with media coverage. His music was different he had his own lane. He dropped some good mixtape i think underground luxury was good
The old days will never be forgotten man fr these were all my childhood/adolescence
“So Good” was/is a phenomenal song
You just slapped me with nostalgia. I used to play the shit out of that song.
yooo u the first person I ever seen acknowledge this song when talkin bout b.o.b . had that shit playin alll summer in 2012 lol
Its the way that he had kind of potential but went on the wrong path
always thought ‘both of us’ was super underrated and should’ve been a massive hit, don’t know what went wrong with that one. great track. also a song of his everyone seems to forget is ‘so good’, at least in my city that shit was all over the radio for like 2 whole summers
Bob is dope as f*** and is one of the most underrated rappers in the past 20 years
The path of Spirituality is indeed a lonely one but I'm so glad he made that choice...there's more to Life than selling your soul for the money & fame plus he's making more quality songs now still. The true fans gotcha B.O.B, keep gloing🙌🏿
💯
Facts
Say it louder
The dude got carried by other artists, once the façade goes away, he too went away with it.. the dude was a prototype of gym class heroes without being actually in the hip hop community..
If you wanna get technically, nelly paved the way for the likes of travie mccoy/GCH, B.o.B, pitbull and flo rida.
“He made a dis song about mirror lizards, a lizard-human hybrid that can only be seen as lizard in a mirror” I’m sorry what
I remember when B.o.B.’s sound took a complete 180 in 2013-2014. He went from stuff you’d hear on Top 40 radio to music you’d listen to on a hip-hop/R&B station.
But denying the Holocaust? 😳
As we have seen in the past once you sign with a label the artist is under huge pressure to make hits once you fail the label just tosses you aside Thanks for your content
Don’t forget how he signed with Strange Music, and had slight beef with Tech N9ne for a month.
I never cared for his raps, but he had some catchy ass hooks..
Here are my favorite B.o.B songs:
1. “Nothin’ On You”.
2. “Airplanes”.
3. “Price Tag”.
4. “Paranoid”.
💙🎵
It would be super hard for me to pick my favorite B.o.B songs so I'll just give 5 of his songs (each one from a different project) that I think are really good:
1. "Coastline" (from Underground Luxury) (this song is especiacially good)
2. "H.A.A.R.P Music" (from Elements)
3. "Plain Jane" (from Psychadelik Thoughtz)
4. "Bombs Away" (from Strange Clouds)
5. "Ghost in the Machine" (from The Adventures of Bobby Ray)
"UP" is his best song
The radio B.o.B typical song choice smh open your mind up go listen to elements,naga,the upside down,murd and mercy
Lol so every B.o.b radio song
You obviously don't listen to b.o.b that much.
He is so so talented it’s sad how his career went
He choose to make his career do that cause he was not with the brainwashing the industry wanted him to do.
"magic" brings back so many great memories of my childhood :( used to think no other song in the world could be greater lmao
The way you subtlety in that flat Earth dig was a "muah", chef's kiss, moment. I expected it, but I didn't expect so soon in the video.