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label. The first single from their album
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B.O.B." (short for "Bombs over Baghdad") is a
2000See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January - Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
singleIn music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...
by
OutKastOutKast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia. They were originally known as The OKB but later changed the group's name to OutKast. The group's original musical style was a mixture of Dirty South and G-Funk...
for the LaFace/
Arista RecordsArista Records is an American record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
label. The first single from their album
StankoniaStankonia is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released October 31, 2000 on La Face Records. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release. Stankonia received universal acclaim from music critics, based on an...
, "B.O.B." is high-
tempoIn musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.-Measuring tempo:...
and
jungleDrum and bass , is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy sub-bass lines...
-influenced, with a
BPMBeats per minute is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of one's heart rate. A rate of 60 bpm means that one beat will occur every second....
rate of 155. The
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
features the
Morris Brown CollegeMorris Brown College is a four-year, private, coed, liberal arts college located in the Vine City Community of Atlanta, Georgia. It is a historically black college, affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church...
Gospel Choir in its
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The inspiration for the song came when
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was in a newsroom and overheard a news report about "bombs over Baghdad".
Reception
- In 2008, it was ranked #23 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
- "B.O.B." was named the #2 song in the "500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" list in 2006 by Blender
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....
, second only to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
- The song was named both the #1 single of 2000–2004 and the #1 track of the decade (2000-2009) by Pitchfork Media
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.
- It was ranked #2 on Stylus Magazine
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's Top 50 Singles of 2000-2005.
Charts
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| UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
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| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly the Black Singles Chart, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues...
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