--- title: B.o.B.'s Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track Says Earth Is Flat description: The rapper claims on Twitter that the earth is flat canonical: https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-26T18:17:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T19:46:38.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Hear B.o.B.'s Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track og:description: The rapper claims on Twitter that the earth is flat og:url: https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hear B.o.B.'s Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track twitter:description: The rapper claims on Twitter that the earth is flat twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # B.o.B Drops Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track After Claiming Earth Is Flat > Sponsored content. 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Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson [tried to engage](http://time.com/4193114/neil-degrasse-tyson-bob-earth-flat/) and tweet some sense into the guy, but B.o.B was having none of it, taking an already bizarre story to new levels of weirdness with the release of what is essentially a deGrasse Tyson diss track called “Flatline.” “Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest/ They’ll probably write that man one hell of a check,” B.o.B raps on the track, before touching on a few other conspiracy theories. That’s not the worst part, though: he dips into what many are calling anti-Semitic territory at the end of his second verse by implying that President Obama is secretly Jewish and insisting that “Stalin was way worse than Hitler.” [You can listen to it here](https://soundcloud.com/bobatl/bob-flatline-feat-neil-tyson). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/"},"headline":"B.o.B Drops Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track After Claiming Earth Is Flat","datePublished":"2016-01-26T18:17:07.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T19:46:38.000Z","description":"Listen to \"Flatline\" below","url":"https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/","keywords":["Music","neil degrasse tyson"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4194273/bob-rapper-neil-degrasse-tyson-diss-track-earth-flat/","name":"B.o.B Drops Neil deGrasse Tyson Diss Track After Claiming Earth Is Flat"}}]}] ```