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B.o.B, ‘The Adventures of Bobby Ray’ (Atlantic)

Multi-instrumentalist mixtape vet B.o.B is a one-man second coming of Atlanta’s Organized Noize era. But where OutKast’s best spun elastic funk through cinematic psychedelia, The Adventures of Bobby Ray is a hip-hop Scary Movie, tossing off references (Vampire Weekend sample, Rivers Cuomo cameo) while struggling to establish a distinctive identity. Ironically, the high point is straightforwardly buoyant R&B hit “Nothin’ on You.” Elsewhere, dazzling rhymes are saddled with generic riffage (“Don’t Let Me Fall”), a Sublime-lite groove (“Lovelier Than You”), and emo melodrama (“Airplanes,” featuring Paramore’s Hayley Williams).

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