FILE: Host Neil DeGrasse Tyson appears on the panel for “Cosmos” at the FOX Winter 2014 TCA, on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
You know 2016 is off to a weird start when the year’s biggest rap beef is between a washed up rapper / flat Earth truther and a popular astrophysicist.
Yesterday, Atlanta rapper B.o.B. went off on a Twitter spree to tell his 2.3 million followers that the Earth was, in fact, flat:
A lot of people are turned off by the phrase ‘flat earth’ … but there’s no way u can see all the evidence and not know… grow up
— B.o.B (@bobatl)
The rapper even went so far as to coin a term for those who would dare to believe the Earth is round:
Seems Legit
— B.o.B (@bobatl)
The tirade went on for quite awhile, ending right around the time he dropped this unqualified beauty:
Once you go flat, you never go back
— B.o.B (@bobatl)
Noted astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson took umbrage with B.o.B.’s flat earth agenda, and tried to Tweet some sense into the rapper:
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)
B.o.B. fired back this morning, releasing the diss track “Flatline” that not only called Tyson out for being paid by NASA and the Department of Defense to propagate his controversial round-Earth theory, but also inexplicably tips his listeners to “do research” on infamous Holocaust denier David Irving:
Now, the astrophysicist has taken to Soundcloud with a diss track of his own. Enlisting rapper Tyson, which is DeGrasse’s nephew, “Flat to Facts” is a re-worked version of Drake’s recent diss track-turned-hit single, “Back to Back.” Tyson has nothing on B.o.B.’s flow, but his words make a hell of a lot more sense:
“What about the change in season? / The planet spins around the sun, do you need more reasons?”
“Please, check ’em for a wire or an earpiece / please, is Donald Trump the one feedin you these / stupid bits of information that keeps you on your knees / I know we got freedom of speech but Bobby, please”
and our personal favorite:
“Can’t fool the people, B.o.B., they know what’s up / I’m in the Haydn Planetarium gettin shoulder rubs”
Listen to the whole thing below.
