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B.o.B aka Bobby Ray, rapper out of Atlanta who has created quite a buzz in the past year or so is finally coming out with his long-awaited debut album.  B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray is the title, release date of 4.27.2010.  The album was orignally supposed to come out in May but due to his commercial success the date was pushed up.  In the past several years the south has put out a lot of music, some good a lot of garbage though.  Lately the south movement has been getting a bit tiring, the record labels have been making a mockery of the music and making a lot of clones.  Now here’s B.o.B. with a refreshing twist to the monotony of it all.  This album has a lot of REAL music on it, not just beats and rhymes.  He uses not your normal guest appearances, Bruno Mars, Lupe Fiasco, Hayley Williams of Paramore, T.I., Playboy Tre, Janelle Monae, Rivers Cuomo, Ricco Barrino and Eminem.  What?!?  That doesn’t sound like your normal guests on a Hip Hop record.  Well this is no normal Hip Hop record, sounds more like a mix of Rock, Hip Hop, Soul and Pop.  The music isn’t belligerent, not a lot of cursing and no drug dealing going on.  Wow, haven’t heard a Hip Hop album like that in a long time.  Like I said it’s refreshing to hear some happy music for a change with some good messages.  I wouldn’t mind letting my kids listen to this album.  There’s plenty of melodies and harmonies on the album, very impressed.  The only downfall of the album is it’s a bit tiring because it seems on some of the tracks he’s trying to hard to sound different and mix the genres up too much, but for the most it part it works and very well.  Did I mention the man can sing?!?  Stand out tracks 5th Dimension, Airplanes, Nothing On You and Past My Shades.  You can no doubt tell that he used to listen to Andre 3000 a lot back in his day.  All in all the album gets a nice 82% no doubt for originality!  Preview the music from his new album below…..