Sunday Night Sample - B.O.B. - Lonely People
Produced by Jim Jonsin, "Lonely People" was one of the songs that put B.O.B on the map back in 2008. It appeared on the mixtape “Who The F#*k is B.o.B.?”
The track features B.O.B. rapping about the tried-and-true musical subject that is wasted youth.
Similar to The Beatles' song that it samples, "Eleanor Rigby".
"Eleanor Rigby" tells the story of two lonely people. One, a churchgoing woman named Eleanor Rigby, who is seen cleaning up rice after a wedding. The second verse introduces the pastor, Father McKenzie, whose sermons "no one will hear." This could indicate that nobody in coming to his church, or that his sermons aren't getting through to the congregation on a spiritual level. In the third verse, Eleanor dies in the church and Father McKenzie buries her.
When writing this, I couldn't for the life of me remember what happened and why B.O.B. went from being a huge pop-rapper, immensely successful, to falling off the face of the Earth?
Well, it turns out its because he believes that very same Earth is f-l-a-t. Flat.
Bobby's controversial take on the shape of the earth has somewhat stained his stellar career. An avid conspiracy theorist, the rapper took to Twitter to speak on his belief, adding numerous photographs to support his view. He even prompted a response from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and went as far as releasing diss track against the scientist called "Flatline." A year later, he started a GoFundMe page to fund his own satellites and verify his belief, seeking $200k before upping it to a whopping million dollars.
"I'm starting this GoFundMe because I would like to send one, if not multiple satellites, as far into space as I can, or into orbit as I can, to find the curve," he said in a video on the page, adding, "I'm looking for the curve."
Bobby has never been shy from expressing his viewpoints through his social media handles and even his songs. In the "Flatline" diss track, he even refers science as a cult and goes to solidify his stance on Holocaust denial and how Freemasons indoctrinate the youths throughout the centuries. In response to that, Tyson's nephew, an amateur rapper who goes by the name of Ellect, dissed him back in his own track "Flat to Fact."
