About “Flatline”

This song is a direct response to Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who responded to B.o.B’s claims that the world was flat.

In a series of tweets, B.o.B. argued that if the Earth were curved, evidence of that would be apparent when looking at the horizon in the distance.

https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691411463051804676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Neil Degrasse Tyson responded with scientific evidence that the earth is indeed round.

B.o.B. then responded with a diss track, “Flatline,” which features a recording of Tyson discussing the formation of the earth. A day later, Tyson’s nephew responded with his own diss track.

He also lashed out at NASA in an Instagram post:

NASA you gotta do better with your photoshop….. clearly you see the pixelation… anybody who knows photoshop knows this is an anomaly in the editing … if this is truly “a picture of the earth from the moon”

https://instagram.com/p/BA-3fIThQVy/

B.o.B.’s bizarre rant draws from a collection of conspiracy theories: globalism, reptilians, anti-semitism, anti-masonry all make appearances.

At first glance combining flat earth theory with these other conspiracy theories might seem just like a random hodgepodge of eccentric ideas, but almost all of these theories have their roots in distrust of a world based on rationalism and Enlightenment principles.