B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray

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Promising hip-hop star hits #1 with a compromised and creatively limp record. Thanks, major-label record industry.

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Atlanta MC Bobby Ray's debut album can be filed next to those by Wale and Kid Cudi: He's a left-of-center rap hero whose skills lag somewhere several miles south of his hipster bona fides. The guest list is formidably diverse: Janelle Monáe, T.I., Eminem, Rivers Cuomo, Paramore's Hayley Williams. The beats are quirky and peppy. […]