The jury's still out on B.O.B.'s latest mixtape, May 25th, but this much is clear: "Surprise Me" is likely going to be the most fun I have with hip hop all year. The beat is as skeletal as anything Clipse has worked over, but it's as chatty and funny as anything Lil Wayne has committed to tape. The track comes off more like a stand-up routine than a rap; this guy has more punchlines than Bob Hope on a USO tour ("The whole town will have water if I lay this pipe"). And the intentional mispronunciation and immediate correction of "not" (so that it rhymes with "mic") is such a brazen gimmick that you can't help but like the guy. Bobby Ray barely works up a sweat on this track, but it's clear that he's working hard the entire time.B.O.B.'s popularity seems inevitable; he sounds effortless moving through so many different styles: rap, R&B, gospel, pop. His debut album, BoB Presents The Adventures of Bobby Ray comes out on April 27th. In the meantime, go pick up his mixtape here (courtesy of mixtape angels 2DopeBoyz).
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