B.o.B says that the title of his Underground Luxury album was inspired by his upbringing.
“Where I came up man, we didn’t have much,” B.o.B. says during an interview with the Breakfast Club. “But we learned to take what we had, and make it luxurious. It’s the art of taking a hoopty that’s been sitting in somebody’s yard, putting rims on it, tricking it out. Now you got a work of art. You got a masterpiece.”
B.o.B. also said that the success his crossovers records does not impact his creative direction.
“I’m not going to try to continue to do something just because it was super successful,” the rapper also known as Bobby Ray says. “But it’s like, for me, it’s about the music. It’s about the culture…It’s about really connecting with people and telling my story this time. Because there are people like that who went through the same thing that I went through who could become motivated off of hearing how I came up.”
Even though he was promoting his new material, B.o.B said he was impressed with the new wave of rappers.
“It’s amazing,” he says. “It’s back. It’s like that excitement you used to feel about the artist back in the ’90s. I feel like we’re feeling that again. It’s like, ‘I’m a fan myself.’ I like the new artists. People like Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q…Kevin Gates, a lot of up-and-coming artists now. It’s dope.”
B.o.B was also asked about his take on artists’ reaction to the media, given Wale’s rant against Complex about the exclusion of his album from its year-end list and Kanye West’s complaints that he only received two Grammy nominations for Yeezus.
“Sometimes as an artist, you feel that sense of… passion,” he says. “That artistic passion. But you still got to be patient. You got to know, are you making art to make art? Or are you making art for recognition? And for me, I don’t really worry too much about my reputation, but just my character. Because that’s where the music comes from. Your music don’t come from your reputation. I made music when nobody knew who I was.”
Now, B.o.B counts T.I. among his supporters.
“He kind of adjusts as I grow, ’cause I executive produced this album,” B.o.B says of T.I. “I produced 80% of it and was very hands on. The more hands on I get, the more he sees that. But he’s always supportive, regardless of what I’m trying to do. Even when I was going through my Rock phase, he was like, ‘Rock on, young brother.'”
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bob is worse than all of them. This nigga is clearly a pop faggot look at all his pop hits he has no room to talk when hes wack as fuck
chill
LOL okay i guess he must be trash because some envious ni66er says so….and thats envious with a “en” if you want to look it up
anyways, BoB always dope and a breath of fresh air….
@BobIsTrash what you listen to bruh?? lemme guess…Rich homie quan and gucci mane???
LOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL funny thing is its fucking true….how embarrassing
yea i guess airplanes moving in the shooting sky and songs with taylor swift are fresh air. This guy is the epitome of wack pop rap.
lol the 3 new guys he decides to name are ab-soul, schoolboy q, and kevin gates.
its so lame how hip hop dx is starting with the misleading headline articles like sohh…you click the headline and instead of reading about him talkin about kanye & wale its: “B.o.B also discusses his new “Underground Luxury” album and his affinity for Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q.” which is the first half of the damn story….come on hhdx
B O B FLOPPING HARD!!
ANOTHER NIGGA TALKING OUT OF HIS ASS… THIS ALBUM HAS SOME CROSSOVER BULLSHIT TOO… AND AFTER THIS ONE FAILS, HE WILL MAKE MORE CROSSOVER ALBUMS…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOoj3N5o8hY
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/jNVk93y0SAg/mqdefault.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_PnthXV64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUTprEuD7o
B.o.B, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q are three of my favorites. Happy that they share the love.
up to I looked at the paycheck which was of $8732, I have faith that…my… neighbour woz really receiving money part time at their computer.. there best friend has been doing this for only about twenty two months and as of now took care of the debts on their house and got a new Maserati. Read Full Report… http://www.Fb39.com
what rapper wouldn’t want to make a song guaranteed to be heard by millions of fans in the most profitable demographic, pre-teens and females?