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A rapper who says the Earth is flat just released a song that bullies Neil Tyson and calls science a 'cult'

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Just a day after rapper and singer Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., better known as B.o.B, fought with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter over the Earth being flat, he whipped together and released a new song.

Called "Flatline" (listen below), the tune tells Tyson, an astrophysicist and science popularizer, to "loosen up his vest" and calls science a "cult" that's a "club full of liars."

The song's lyrics also question why NASA is part of the Department of Defense (it's not).

Poetic references in support of the flat-Earth conspiracy are also pretty abundant in verse lines like these: "That's probably why the horizon is always rising ... Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim ... They nervous, but before you try to curve it"

And especially in the chorus:

Flat line
You fooled us for the last time
Flat line, flat line
There's no superior blood line

The end of the song seems to borrow audio of Tyson from 92Y's February 2014 video "The Earth Is Not Round."

Listen to B.o.B's full song below and follow along with the lyrics at Genius.com:

And with apologies to B.o.B and other conspiracy theorists, if you're reading this post and have any question of whether or not the Earth is round, it is — although not perfectly round (it's more of a spheroid).

In addition to centuries of work in physics that back up a roundish Earth, countless photos of our home planet from space — taken by astronauts and satellites alike — plus endless hours of video footage of the world, more than settle the question:

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