TWEETS: Influential rapper claims Earth is flat, gets inevitably ridiculed as a result

That’s right, it’s 2016 and someone is still claiming the world is flat.

It would be one thing to make the claim in 1516 before the globe-circumnavigating exploits of the likes of Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus, but 500 years later, rapper and producer Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., AKA B.o.B, still thinks the world is flat. B.o.B, a public face of the flat-Earthers movement that has been gaining momentum of late, made the claims in a series of tweets in the last few days. There are loads of them, which you can see here, but we've included a selection below, some of which were challenged by renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson amongst others. https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691411463051804676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691427630617243648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691498405076582400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/691652747674980355 https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/691655467978919936 Far more entertaining, however, were some of the tweets that didn’t necessarily try to reason with BoB’s line of thinking but preferred to take the p*ss instead. https://twitter.com/BijouBAKSON/status/691413317139722245 https://twitter.com/raydardy/status/691522218669441024 https://twitter.com/AngryBlakeman/status/691679574485307392 https://twitter.com/Patrickkfisher/status/691729850046898176 BoB, however, is sticking to his guns... https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691780784244551680 https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691845934498603010