B.o.B | Pop review

King's College Students Union, LondonFor an unknown US hip-hopper to hit the top of the UK singles chart is remarkable enough, but nobody seems more surprised than Bobby Ray Simmons Jr himself. The Carolina-born, Atlanta-raised rapper-turned-singer has had a rocky rise. Unable to reconcile street rap's peer pressures with his own inclinations toward music of greater breadth and imagination, Simmons's pragmatism has been locked in a wrestling match with his questing muse. The result: a series of...

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