BoB's dumb Flat-Earth songs (that take a WILD turn to Ant!Semetic conspiracy theories)

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  • Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
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  • @RapCritic
    @RapCritic  29 днів тому +6

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  • @HeyLetsDoAThing
    @HeyLetsDoAThing 29 днів тому +168

    Turns out that pretending airplanes are shooting stars is part of his actual belief system

    • @milah344
      @milah344 28 днів тому +4

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @inugamidalton8270
    @inugamidalton8270 29 днів тому +38

    I have to thank you for putting this in that Worst-of video all those years ago. It actually genuinely started me on a path to going into psychological research on what makes people prone to conspiracy theories (or arguably what makes conspiracy theories prone to us) and that has probably shaped my life for the better. Thanks, man.

  • @jeremyusreevu237
    @jeremyusreevu237 29 днів тому +107

    It is really sad that B.o.B lost his mind. He was a genuinely really good rapper, with some great songs under his belt.

    • @DhirenGowda
      @DhirenGowda 29 днів тому

      The polar opposite of BoB is Jay Electronica (left-wing antisemite). Believes the Rothschilds rule the world, and the Ukraine/Israel wars were faked, but his Exhibit series with Just Blaze is an artifact in late 2000s hiphop.

    • @richhrite88
      @richhrite88 29 днів тому

      He lost his mind because he has an opinion?

    • @hyperx72
      @hyperx72 29 днів тому +50

      ​@@richhrite88
      Rather or not a dress is gold or blue is a matter of opinion. We don't need to coddle anti-human conspiracy theories with the "Oh it's just what I was thinking!" Brush.

    • @donovanlocust1106
      @donovanlocust1106 29 днів тому +19

      ​@@richhrite88his "opinion" is him just flapping his lips

    • @DhirenGowda
      @DhirenGowda 29 днів тому

      @@richhrite88 88, of course you're defending an antisemite

  • @leeshajoi
    @leeshajoi 29 днів тому +37

    Part of Flat Earth theory is that there are military patrols keeping regular people from getting anywhere near the edge of the Earth. Why no one ever tries to film those patrols is a question the theorists can't seem to answer.

    • @christopherb501
      @christopherb501 29 днів тому +7

      "Ice wall ice wall ice wall!"
      They're so stupid.

    • @micmac274
      @micmac274 29 днів тому

      @@christopherb501 That would cause even more catastrophic climate change if the ice wall existed. They're dumb, and can't understand the consequences of their theories.

    • @Swordsman1425
      @Swordsman1425 28 днів тому +2

      Which is especially funny considering they say the military patrol is around the "ice wall of Antarctica" even though there are plenty of tour companies who take adventure tourists to the south pole.

  • @roshango125ab
    @roshango125ab 28 днів тому +17

    B.o.B crawled, so Kayne could run

  • @injuringchip3161
    @injuringchip3161 29 днів тому +81

    You know what's funny? A massive corporation in the motor industry genuinely did create a conspiracy about 10 minute cities being a tool of oppression, so you weren't far off.

    • @ipodtouch495
      @ipodtouch495 29 днів тому +1

      Yeah fossil fuel companies have been doing this shit for years. They weren't even the first either, tobacco companies were calling regulations of their products Big Government overreach long before the "cLiMaTe hOaX" stuff popped off.

    • @RoguSpanish
      @RoguSpanish 29 днів тому +1

      And the people who fully believe that walkable cities are bad for no other reason than cause some oil baron told them so are the same people who call themselves "free thinkers" and everyone else sheep.

    • @MythicSuns
      @MythicSuns 29 днів тому

      Plus a fair few pro flat-earth books were probably sold thanks to B.o.B's ringing endorsement.
      Plus I'm willing to bet there were at least a few flat earth conventions that charged for admission.
      One bit of irony that got me is that there was a flat earth convention in Australia; the irony is that one of the flat earther beliefs is that Australia doesn't exist and all people claiming to be Australian are actors.

    • @wjd23104
      @wjd23104 28 днів тому +4

      Not sure whether that is funny, or just super depressing.

  • @TheAnimalKing
    @TheAnimalKing 29 днів тому +44

    I feel like this song inspired underground rappers to talk about their crazy conspiracy theories a lot more

  • @PhoenixFireZero
    @PhoenixFireZero 29 днів тому +16

    If your conspiracy theory can be deflated by someone asking "so what?" you need a stronger argument

    • @supermcfly100
      @supermcfly100 29 днів тому +1

      That’s every world view including yours.

    • @FrostandFyre
      @FrostandFyre 28 днів тому

      ​@@supermcfly100And yours

  • @TheAnimalKing
    @TheAnimalKing 29 днів тому +50

    I use to not know that lizard people were an antisemitic conspiracy theory for a long time, like even as a kid, and I sounded like a dick when I said “there should be a horror movie on lizard people”

    • @johnwerner69
      @johnwerner69 29 днів тому +3

      Wait what!? I love lizard people... We can't use that anymore?

    • @CocaConna
      @CocaConna 29 днів тому +1

      Crazy how big the meme/concept of the lizard theory has outgrown its nasty origins so much that the global association with the theory now is something more aligned with Mark Zuckerberg being a reptile and other high-acting top ranking people acting in on some new world order type situation. Still a harmful concept but crazy it’s just a ridiculous theory for most and isn’t even related to the harmful concept it originated from in the 1st place

    • @TheAnimalKing
      @TheAnimalKing 29 днів тому +11

      @@johnwerner69 don’t worry we still got the scape ore swamp lizard man and there is a similar creature to lizard people in Native American mythology called saurians. They are humanoid shapeshifting reptiles that live underground.

    • @johnwerner69
      @johnwerner69 29 днів тому +1

      @@TheAnimalKing niiice!

    • @MythicSuns
      @MythicSuns 29 днів тому +1

      Instead we got a TV show about it simply called "V"

  • @robinsonnox9980
    @robinsonnox9980 29 днів тому +35

    Even BoB's just repeats the clichés that truthers spout. He can use his rapping skills to mask how dumb they are- he says the same things every other wacko says.

  • @lepkember6913
    @lepkember6913 29 днів тому +17

    It's kinda sad how back then, rap critic had to explain to us what the lizard people conspiracy theory is. Nowadays you would have to live under a rock to not know about groups of people, including politicians and other popular figures, who genuinely believe in stuff like this.

  • @andrebrynkus2055
    @andrebrynkus2055 28 днів тому +9

    I remember this song. It was his diss track against Neil Degrasse Tyson after getting into a fight with him on twitter.
    B.o.B. got into a rap beef with a scientist instead of another rapper.

  • @SilkBuckets
    @SilkBuckets 29 днів тому +17

    and they be the ones telling people to get educated, and also not believe science😂

    • @brycenall4410
      @brycenall4410 28 днів тому +5

      imo that's exactly why conspiracy theories are so appealing to people like this. It's a way for them to feel smarter than the average person, or even an educated person in their own mind without actually having to do the studying

    • @trinidaddy
      @trinidaddy 24 дні тому

      ​@@brycenall4410I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG, I FELT LIKE I WAS THE CONSPIRACY THEORIST. THANK YOU SO MUCH. There's a reason they deflect everything by saying it's invalid or "you need to do 'real research'" instead of hearing people out. It's a defense mechanism of the mind to feel validated for people who can't/ don't want to take the time most do to feel that kind of validation. Almost a mind drug in a way. And it also effects people's sanity in an almost similar way that frequent drug use does.

  • @MANJYOMETHUNDER111
    @MANJYOMETHUNDER111 28 днів тому +3

    This clip is a CLASSIC. You've done so much in your career as a youtuber.

  • @MackenzieChandlerDunnavant
    @MackenzieChandlerDunnavant 29 днів тому +7

    Great to see this bit uploaded as its own vid. I think about it all the time, because for me it was a canary in the coal mine for how mainstream this type of BS was about to get.

  • @lainnorcal
    @lainnorcal 29 днів тому +11

    Exactly, there's real shit going on and were like "lizard people and flat earth!"... bruh.

  • @daelen.cclark
    @daelen.cclark 29 днів тому +10

    And I really liked his Magic song with Rivers Columbo… ah well.

  • @bungledasabrick8280
    @bungledasabrick8280 29 днів тому +7

    Love that you're using the bit from Don Giovanni where demons come out of the walls and the protagonist gets dragged to hell at the end. Subtle 😂

  • @Sketchguy1248
    @Sketchguy1248 29 днів тому +5

    Why are you just re-uploading a clip from a different video?

  • @TheAnimalKing
    @TheAnimalKing 29 днів тому +15

    You think lil Wayne looks back at the video RC is using for the background and was like “ooo I wish I didn’t do that with him”

    • @nintyfan1991
      @nintyfan1991 28 днів тому +1

      Unlikely with how dimwitted Wayne really is.

  • @judgesaturn507
    @judgesaturn507 28 днів тому +3

    Oh, man. I remember when conspiracy theories like this were a FRINGE thing and not believed by a substantial fraction of the population.

  • @BlueBeetle1939
    @BlueBeetle1939 29 днів тому +5

    Why is it that "free thinkers" always spout the same nonsense?

  • @demigod_inc
    @demigod_inc 29 днів тому +3

    I remember listening to the album/mixtape. Some joints rocked musically I think.

  • @youngsinatra1
    @youngsinatra1 29 днів тому +7

    Peak RC man

  • @purplekey9330
    @purplekey9330 25 днів тому +1

    Seeing where B.o.B ended up just makes me sad. He really was the first rapper i followed, and in general served as an introduction to a lot of other artists for me (EG, finding Kid Kudi from Pandora mixing his music into BoB music).
    I sort of fell of listening to him when he released "All I Want" (which kinda just served as an inverse of "Forget about the pricetag"), but when i heard about the flat earth stuff i just got really sad.
    I looked into him the other day, and saw a more recent (2023) song from him "How to make a clone", which was just more insanity.
    And whats worse is hes been accepted by other radical conspiracists, that basically just cheer him on. And he buys in because theyre basically the only people that listen to him now. Just a tragic case all around.

  • @leoprince691
    @leoprince691 29 днів тому +9

    And people wonder why B.o.B disappeared.

  • @NoFace-Killah
    @NoFace-Killah 23 дні тому +1

    Folks with B.o.B.'s world view have drastically increased since this song came out

  • @RomLoneWolf23
    @RomLoneWolf23 29 днів тому +3

    Honestly RC, I think you're on to something.

  • @MrBaskins2010
    @MrBaskins2010 29 днів тому +1

    that ending made my day

  • @i.p2154
    @i.p2154 28 днів тому +1

    Unbelieveble that in 2024 people still defend somthing like,raining upsidedown in Australië 😂😂😂😂

  • @SilkBuckets
    @SilkBuckets 29 днів тому +10

    hey at least "Magic" and "nothin on you" are bangers

    • @danielwhitingjr2854
      @danielwhitingjr2854 29 днів тому +1

      I'll be in the sky is his greatest track. Hilarious in hindsight. Follow.your dreams by not following fucking sense. Up in the clouds he has has multiple songs where he is looking down from space or shoot for the stars, which if you got up there, you would know the Earth is not fucking flat. Boom Roasted. His music goes back and forth. This dude made a song called Dr Amen about how the government were giving people aids and diseases on some Lupe Fiasco Shit. So him to go to that to flat Earth his 2017 album was very groovy and phycadelic rock inspired. Failed to sell shit, but was a flavorful forgettable album.

    • @kurtcobain279489
      @kurtcobain279489 29 днів тому +1

      His verse on Tech N9ne's "I'm A Psycho" was also pretty good. The hell happened to him?

  • @iMThatOnlyBeast13
    @iMThatOnlyBeast13 29 днів тому +1

    There’s a lot of conspiracies going on but idk what bob was talking about lol

    • @christopherb501
      @christopherb501 29 днів тому +4

      Conspiracy theorists aren't known for being particularly coherent.

  • @jackryan444
    @jackryan444 25 днів тому

    Maaaannn…. I really liked his first run. Then right when I went to college he went to crazy town.

  • @simonusc849
    @simonusc849 15 днів тому

    I think what happened is that he got too greedy, the music industry shut him down and he doesn't wanna admit that

  • @ltlbuddha
    @ltlbuddha 28 днів тому +1

    Build a bear corporation 😆🤣😂

  • @Diana-mu7pc
    @Diana-mu7pc 28 днів тому

    The Build-A-Bear corporations loooool

  • @thecoedbutcher52
    @thecoedbutcher52 29 днів тому +7

    Lil darkie said in his last album a pretty good line. Ge said "Do we even care that the government lies?"
    And that kinda stuck with me. Mainly because i feel like so many people know about the governments corruptions but even knowing that we dont do anything to change it.
    Usa has the 2nd amendment to fight tyranny and yet here we are sitting around letting tyranny win and wr arent doing anything.

    • @christopherb501
      @christopherb501 29 днів тому

      Instead, people flex and exacerbate the 2nd Amendment to intumidate minorities and polling stations.

    • @Swordsman1425
      @Swordsman1425 28 днів тому

      It's doubly funny because most people forget that tyranny rises because there is a significant amount of people in a given country that supports that tyranny. And many of those people are armed. A certain leader in Germany in the late 1930s had a lot of armed followers who were willing to, and indeed did die for him during his attempts to rise to power. The junta in Chile happened when the military decided to take over the government, but there were citizens that supported them through it all, whether they were actually aligned with the junta or just wanting to be on the winning team. The and there are quite a few americans, including many with guns, who are actually OK with a dictatorship as long as said dictator shares their political opinions. (Admittedly Pinochet got a lot of help from the US to get to where he was, too, but my point is that there were and still are regular people in the country that support him despite how tyrannical he was) A dictator doesn't rise to power without people who like the dictator's ideas on how to run the country helping them out.

  • @tvman7916
    @tvman7916 28 днів тому

    That time Bob thought he was smarter than everyone around him 😂

  • @Enbionic_Titan
    @Enbionic_Titan 28 днів тому +1

    Its so sad bc i used to rlly like B.o.B... what is goin on with celebrity brain rot?

  • @christopherb501
    @christopherb501 29 днів тому +5

    Gods I wish this signal noise would finally ebb. When is this conspiracy BS in the mainstream going to END???

  • @nintyfan1991
    @nintyfan1991 28 днів тому

    Said it before, I'll say it again: B.O.B. is the Alex Jones of Rap.

  • @richardgadberry8398
    @richardgadberry8398 28 днів тому

    I'm actually a member of the Illuminat-OhmyGod.

  • @ObservableObserver
    @ObservableObserver 28 днів тому

    Ngl, conspiracy theory nut jobs being corporate plants would explain a lot

  • @Jaxer4
    @Jaxer4 23 дні тому

    You looking real lizzardy right now RC 🧐

  • @culwin
    @culwin 28 днів тому

    So the lizard people celebrate Hanukkah?

  • @mogo5055
    @mogo5055 28 днів тому

    B.O.B. bit a Drake flow just to reveal zero evidence. Is this evidence, irony, or coincidence???

  • @dragonfightergr7149
    @dragonfightergr7149 29 днів тому

    Why does this video look like he screen recorded the video and reuploaded it

  • @Sarkane1256
    @Sarkane1256 29 днів тому

    2:31 kind of awkward considering rn

  • @usagiwerd6664
    @usagiwerd6664 28 днів тому

    Why you reposting old videos…

  • @MusicGeekery
    @MusicGeekery 28 днів тому

    What I especially hate and this might seem like a minor complaint but bear with my distaste is that the beat is pretty nice, and so the audience won't immediately think twice about this utter nut-jobs hyper-obsessive vice

  • @YouCorny
    @YouCorny 29 днів тому +1

    Every video on this channel is so random now, idk what happened. I remember when I first followed the content was way different.

    • @wellthatwaswierd4570
      @wellthatwaswierd4570 29 днів тому +1

      Seriously
      I got excited for this one, hoping for a return to form, but was vastly disappointed by it being a clip I've already seen.

  • @akhilxy2822
    @akhilxy2822 29 днів тому

    dehh video about this is a classic

  • @e66iu
    @e66iu 29 днів тому

    Young Masta Artisan with the low ceasar.. before he joined the illumi-naughty.

  • @KaoticReach1999
    @KaoticReach1999 28 днів тому +1

    So....we're just gonna repost parts of videos before the channel was crippled by politics...? Or did the original get taken down?
    Kept thinking there'd atleast be a cheap comment at the end from a recent livestream....who the hell even remembers BoB or his dumb things anymore

  • @wiiagent
    @wiiagent 27 днів тому

    lol

  • @BrewedCoffeeBean
    @BrewedCoffeeBean 29 днів тому +1

    nostalgia

  • @keyscored3710
    @keyscored3710 23 дні тому

    reposting segments from your old videos that were actually popular? Lmao you're cooked

  • @slackershrub8923
    @slackershrub8923 25 днів тому

    Wow are we really at the point of reuploading old segments? Wtf happened to you?

  • @TheOneJPtv
    @TheOneJPtv 29 днів тому +4

    It's 2024 my guy, B.O.B. dropped a shit ton of gems in that song. it appears to me you don't know the difference between a Conspiracy and a Theory. do better.

    • @theletterm1787
      @theletterm1787 29 днів тому +1

      The brain worms have infected you

    • @richhrite88
      @richhrite88 29 днів тому +1

      Thank you! I was waiting for a comment of reason. At least he is giving you a topic of conversation then the same shoot em up bang bang music and do drugs and go to the club. This is not a good take by RC

    • @cheeseball5030
      @cheeseball5030 29 днів тому +19

      Lmao please elaborate

    • @hyperx72
      @hyperx72 29 днів тому +1

      "NASA is part of the department of defense"
      Yeah not a conspiracy theory, now please go on about how B.O.B is "right?"

    • @TheOneJPtv
      @TheOneJPtv 29 днів тому +1

      @@cheeseball5030 At the very least research what he's talking about and you may find a rabbit hole of REAL information and not just the fluff you get on social media.