[Verse 1]
Checkmate, ain't a game of chess
Free thinking, got a world at my neck
Hah, am I paranoid? Picture Malcolm X
In a room full of pigs, trying not to bust a sweat
Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest
They probably write that man one hell of a check
Aye, I'm over here on this side of town
Come on over, over, over, over here, try to clown
If they weren't coming for me then
They definitely coming for me now
I can't even keep my phone charged up
All this shit I'm talking, I should get my home barred up
Rappers get off of my dick and get your own bars up
Now the mirror lizard's breath got the clones scared cuz
Woo, use your, use your common sense
Why is NASA part of the department of defense?
They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees
Feeding kids masonry, bruh, be careful what you read
[Hook 1]
There's no superior blood line
You got me once but that died, aye
[Verse 2]
Voice, voice, do I have a voice?
Do I give a fuck? Do I have a choice?
Joint, joint, I roll up a joint
Keep my shooters in the game like I hate to disappoint
I see only good things on the horizon
That's probably why the horizon is always rising
Indoctrinated in a cult called science
And graduated to a club full of liars
Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim
Fuck you and your team, you can sit on the bench with 'em
They nervous, but before you try to curve it
Do your research on David Irving
Stalin was way worse than Hitler
That's why the POTUS gotta wear a kippah
I'm a man first 'fore an artist
Get a lawyer, look up Doctor Richard Sauder
[Hook 2]
You fooled us for the last time
There's no superior blood line
[Interlude: Neil Tyson]
So you want to find the farthest point from that center. And it turns out sea level at the equator is farther away from the center of the Earth than sea level near the poles. It has nothing to do with global warming and melting of the ice caps
(Why is that?)
Because... Earth, we know it spins, once a.... day. Yes, thank you. Three people know that, how long a day lasts here
(Good for row number two, they're off to a great start)
So you, so you spin, you know when you spin pizza dough, it kind of flattens out. It gets wider in the middle and...so Earth, throughout its life, even when it formed, it was spinning, and it got a little wider at the equator than it does at the poles. So it's not actually a sphere, it's an...it's oblate, it's officially an oblate spheroid . That's what we call it. But not only that, it's slightly wider below the equator than above the equator
[Hook 2]
You fooled us for the last time
It’s unclear who “they” are, though he’s likely referring to the US government (or the Illuminati). B.o.B. is under the impression that, since he’s spreading the real “truths” of the universe, he will be silenced by secret, powerful actors. He has shared similar sentiments on Twitter, claiming that he’s being censored.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/689551204901326848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/689887446859808768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
B.o.B likens “shooters” in a basketball to shooters on the street. Anyone (including the feds) coming for B.o.B will be met with resistance.
B.o.B has called the ‘oblate spheroid’ out in the past. In the following tweet, he takes things too literally. In B.o.B’s mind, an oblate sphere means one that is so oblate, that it looks like a pear (shout out to Rozay and my pears). He doesn’t understand that while the height at the equator is several miles larger, those several miles are minuscule in comparison to the Earth’s diameter. He thinks that because the pictures don’t show a deformed Earth, that that means the Earth is flat.
B.o.B continues the basketball rhetoric, telling Neil and his team of “researchers” can sit out and stop arguing their round-earth theories.
Neil has some pretty powerful people on his team.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the internet’s favorite astrophysicist, fact-checked B.o.B.’s claims about the Earth being “flat” on Twitter. Bobby Ray probably didn’t appreciate those responses. See here, here here.
Additionally, B.O.B believes that the government is paying Neil DeGrasse Tyson a lot of money to dispute the idea that the world is “flat.” B.O.B revisits this conspiracy theory that the government is hiding things from the public many times throughout the track.
Neil Tyson is well-known for his amazing astronomy vests.
B.o.B. creates a metaphor comparing his ever-rising career with the way he imagines the sunset works on his flat Earth.
When the sun sets, it looks like the horizon is rising. According to flat-earth theory, the setting of the sun is not due to the spinning of a spherical earth but is an optical illusion based on the laws of perspective.
A chubby person is fatter below its center, a pear is thicker below its center. The Earth is thicker below the equator, its center.
Confirmed: Earth = Pear
“Barring” your house/windows up can help stop intruders from entering. B.o.B uses wordplay to tell other rappers to get their own “bars” (lyrics) up.
Luckily, we have B.o.B to share the truth with us, that despite what Neil Tyson says, the polar ice caps don’t exist. The world is flat, and there is a large wall of ice that keeps you from going past the edge. B.o.B has proof of this because it’s “illegal” for anyone to visit the North or South Pole. He shows this in his series of Twitter Rants.
The word checkmate is derived from the Persian for the “King is defeated.”
In chess, when a player calls checkmate, it means that the king has been trapped and he has won.
B.o.B. calls out “checkmate” to other rappers who think they’re kings —he has defeated them, they just aren’t yet aware. Musically, he still hasn’t released his best work yet, inferring that he is just merely going to get better.
Here, B.o.B. speaks against those who would criticize him for speaking out on various issues because he’s “just a rapper” by saying that he’s not just a rapper but a human.
It is implied that his phone is being wiretapped by the government. Tapped cellphones lose battery faster because they are constantly recording. He made a similar claim on “Paper Route” shortly after the Snowden NSA Leaks were published.
Protip: if you reduce your use of Twitter, and other social media, you can improve the phone’s battery life. Try it sometime.
David Irving is an infamous holocaust denier who has claimed that “a great deal of control over the world is exercised by Jews.”
Irving’s reputation as a historian was discredited when, in the course of an unsuccessful libel case he filed against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, he was shown to have deliberately misrepresented historical evidence in order to promote Holocaust denial. The English court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, and racist, who “for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence”. In addition, the court found that Irving’s books had distorted the history of Adolf Hitler’s role in the Holocaust in order to depict Hitler in a favourable light.
Christopher Hitchens in his “The Strange Case of David Irving” recalled Irving as an extremely creepy racist:
However, it transpired that, while in the elevator, Irving had looked with approval at my fair-haired, blue-eyed daughter, then 5 years old, and declaimed the following doggerel about his own little girl, Jessica, who was the same age:
I am a Baby Aryan
Not Jewish or Sectarian;
I have no plans to marry an
Ape or Rastafarian.
The thought of Carol and Antonia in a small space with this large beetle-browed man as he spouted that was, well, distinctly creepy. (He has since posted the lines on his Web site, and they came back to haunt him at the trial.)
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/676491351635189761
B.o.B is referencing the human cloning conspiracy and believes human cloning is already possible.
Within the “conspiracy” circles, conspiracists believe that cloning is done in an attempt to alter a human to make them more subservient, and to make them follow the orders of the hidden government.
According to AboveTopSecret.com:
State Leaders have been, at least for some, CLONED.
Clones may be replacements of genuine human born Presidents or Monarchy rulers, unless such rulers are genetically engineered from “birth”.
Cloning of human leaders is done by unknown parties, yet to be identified entities, who have Conspired to impose Mind Controlled Clones as our earthly rulers.
He believes that the government kidnaps people – most likely people with power and clones them. One example is Dave Chapelle. B.o.B thinks that since there is evidence it must be true even if the masses refute it.
B.o.B stated in one of his tweets:
When a celebrity in great health suddenly suffered a stroke, heart attack, aneurism = cloning center
This is simply means that any defect in the cloning process is the same person from before but changed in the external aesthetic.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691945264316321792
A full list of Bobby Ray’s clone tweets can be seen here.
This line shows how B.o.B questions freedom of speech while in one way he has the media against his broad opinion that the world is flat and the other is the truth. It’s a battle freethinkers always face because they refrain to succumb to others easily.
Another perspective that can be placed is one that discusses the conspiracies revolving around the morale of the song. While the government or the contrived “Illuminati” wants to hide information from the public – B.o.B feels like it’s his duty to speak and expose the truth. Similar to Micheal Jackson’s “illuminati” death, B.o.B isn’t afraid of the masses because he feels as if exposing the truth is more important than his life.
In this train of thought the answer to his rhetorical questions is (in order) Yes, No, and Yes.
B.o.B. compares Communist totalitarian dictator Joseph Stalin with Fascist totalitarian dictator Adolf Hitler.
Many historians estimate that more people were killed by Stalin’s regime than by Hitler’s regime. However, Stalin was in power for a longer time than Hitler.
The previous line cites Holocaust denier David Irving, implying that Hitler also killed far fewer people than historians say he did.
A reference to the Flat Earth belief that the seasons of the Earth can be explained by the sun rotating over different sections of the ocean at different times of the year:
https://youtu.be/R52_PdZlSq8?t=38
This is also a reference to the thirty-three degrees of the Scottish Rite body of the Freemasons
The hook has multiple meanings.“Flatline” refers to a heart monitor (which shows a flat line when the patients heart stops) and B.o.B’s argument the Earth is flat.
The notion of “superior blood line” refers to the Illuminati, a collection of 13 family dynasties that conspiracy theorists believe are the puppet masters at the top of the globalist New World Order.
The hook has multiple meanings.“Flatline” refers to a heart monitor (which shows a flat line when the patients heart stops) and B.o.B’s argument the Earth is flat.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691729658761601025
The notion of “superior blood line” refers to the Illuminati, a collection of 13 family dynasties that conspiracy theorists believe are the puppet masters at the top of the globalist New World Order.
Important to point out, NASA isn’t a part of the Department of Defense:
NASA is not a part of the Department of Defense, nor of any other Cabinet-level department. NASA’s administrator reports directly to the White House.
B.o.B believes scientists and governments only share part of the truth with us. They withold some information from us, and fabricate lies.
With a bit of wordplay, B.o.B says his critics shouldn’t “curve it” in the sense of twisting his words or disregarding his theories. He also means they shouldn’t “curve” the Earth, saying to do your research before you claim it is curved.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691780173130264577
B.o.B. considers himself a free thinker because he goes against the system and fights for what he believes to be the truth. As such, he believes he is seen as a threat by the “globalist” New World Order, a shadowy group of secret power elite. Conspiracy theorists claim the NWO is conspiring to abolish nation-states and establish a single worldwide totalitarian government.
He goes on to compare himself to Malcolm X during the civil rights movement.
A “room full of pigs” can serve a double meaning because in this case the “pigs” are the police and Malcolm X was Muslim, so he didn’t eat pork.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=i16OMrwxsm8
B.o.B believes smoking weed shows him the “truth” of the world, but it’s safe to assume that B.o.B’s high use of marijuana may have triggered underlying mental illness.
B.o.B has stated that weed and other psychedelics are illegal because they:
Dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
He further states that they:
Open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
https://twitter.com/amshiraah/status/691738890303082496
Similar to 2Pac, B.o.B is a free thinker and will say what’s on his mind without any remorse. He’ll speak the truth he knows and in this situation it’s pertaining to the world being “flat”.
Nothing will prevent him for speaking his mind even if any confrontation or “clowning” happens he is sure not to back down especially hailing from Atlanta, Georgia.
Heliocentrism is the tenet that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the earth rotates around it. Before Nicolas Copernicus published this theory in 1543, it was widely accepted and official Catholic Church doctrine that the earth and humans are at the center of the universe.
A number of scientists, most famously Galileo Galilei, were persecuted by the church for espousing heliocentric viewpoints. They are widely seen as victims or martyrs for the cause of science.
B.o.B. begs to differ with nearly all astronomers, scientists, and generally reasonable people of the past four centuries; calling his target a “victim” of heliocentric lies.
Mirror lizards are reptilian humanoids whose true form can only be seen in the reflection of a mirror.
Accourding to conspirists, they’ve been around for ages, and have had a great influence on our world, all while staying hidden in the shadows.
They are stories/histories or legends, which we are told about an advanced species of bipedal reptiles that have lived with human society since the beginnings of our history, making themselves pass as humans, ocupying the most important positions of power. En some ages they were called demons, or gods, now they are referred to as extraterrestrials. Much material exists about this in the history of art. Salutations.
If you still doubt the truth, here’s some irrefutable proof:
Masonic secret societies are seen as shady fronts for world domination through occult rituals, mass brainwashing of the populace, and secret control of elite institutions. B.o.B. warns that school textbooks are turning impressionable children into “sheeple” who believe crazy Masonic propaganda like the earth being round.
Interestingly, in “The Watchers,” B.o.B angrily denies he is part of the Freemasons as a rapper .
Anti-masonic conspiracy theories date back to the 18th century. They were often propagated by religious and state institutions that felt threatened by the spread of Enlightenment ideas, as many Masons were proponents of rationalism and political liberalism. The infamous Illuminati were an Enlightenment-centric Masonic group and they were blamed by reactionaries for the French revolution.
A reference to occasions on which presidents, including President Obama, have worn kippot, traditional Jewish religious hats, to events.
B.o.B. plays into an anti-semitic conspiracy theory that claims Jewish people are in control of the government, the economy, and the media. This canard’s origins traces back to the waves of anti-semitism in Europe with the spread of protestantism. A particularly anti-semitic strain even denies the holocaust, including David Irving.
It’s not uncommon for flat earthers to also believe in parallel conspiracy theories involving aliens, the moon landing, the illuminati, and 9/11.
Dr. Richard Sauder is the host of conspiracy-oriented radio show No Lies Radio and a researcher of secret underground and underwater tunnels and bases. On one radio show, Sauder claimed:
These bases are run with a combination of misdirection, illusion, and concealment by a variety of actors … referred to as ‘the organization.’ This stealthy group is extremely well-financed, and interfaces with a number of terrestrial human agencies, as well as some ‘off-planet’ organizations. … They likely have developed electro-gravitic and antigravity technology (such as seen in UFOs), which is being used behind our backs.
According to his blog, some of Sauder’s other interests are:
Electronic mind control, Freedom Technology, UFOs, human prehistory and remote antiquity, international politics, the Kundalini energy and alternative thought patterns
