Rapper B.o.B says Earth is flat, disses Neil DeGrasse Tyson with new truther track ‘Flatline’

Late Monday night, rapper Bobby Ray Simmons, better known as B.o.B, launched a series of tweets claiming the Earth is actually flat.

The “Nothin’ on You” and “Airplanes” rapper posted a flurry of tweets and pictures insisting to his 2.3 million followers that the world is not a globe, and he has the pictures to prove it.

He pointed out, using photos, that “no matter how high in elevation you are… the horizon is always eye level.”

He laid out his case that if the world were round, it would be obvious when looking at the horizon. He said cities in the distance would not be visible as they would be obscured by Earth’s curvature.

He used an image of the New York City skyline, taken from 60 miles away, explaining that from such a distance, the city should not be visible behind 170 feet of curved earth.

That’s when famous physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson got involved.

“@bobatl Earth’s curve indeed blocks 150 (not 170) ft of Manhattan. But most buildings in midtown are waaay (sic) taller than that,” Mr. deGrasse Tyson tweeted.

The “Cosmos” narrator continued to rain down a barrage of facts and scientific tweets at B.o.B Tuesday morning, but the rapper would not be swayed.

To reassure the rapper that there was no bad blood between the two over their scientific disagreement, Mr. deGrasse Tyson tweeted, “@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music.”

The Twitter exchange culminated in the released of B.o.B’s newest song “Flatline” a rap about how the earth is definitely flat, and other conspiracies.

“Globalists see me as a threat” he riffs in the three-and-a-half minute track. He also compares himself to Malcom X and claims “Stalin was way worse than Hitler, that’s why POTUS gotta wear a kippah.”

The rap’s chorus proclaims: “Flat line, flat line, There’s no superior blood line.”

The song also features out-of-context audio clips of Mr. deGrasse Tyson discussing the formation of the Earth and its shape.

“So you, you know when you spin pizza dough it kind of flattens out. It gets wider in the middle…so Earth throughout its 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,” Mr. deGrasse Tyson is heard saying. 

B.o.B fans who agreed with the rapper’s theories earned retweets.

For those that disagreed, the rapper had this to say: “if my tweets are rattling the tiny little cages of your reality…. the unfollow button is right there.”