B.o.B. also known as Bobby Ray finally decided which name he wants to use in the future. Therefore the ATL rapper renamed his debut album, once known as The Adventures Of B.o.B., to The Adventures Of Bobby Ray."I'm merging the B.o.B. element to what I'm doing now," he told MTV recently in Atlanta.
While his debut still doesn't have a release date, Bobby Ray stay busy with dropping mixtapes.
"The mixtape really comes from just the obvious idea of during this transition - musically, name-wise, style, everything - to do a mixtape where you compare and contrast what's the difference, and emphasize the direction I'm going in. I feel really good about it. I feel like it's an album. There's a lot of music we're putting on there - 18 songs. We're doing two versions. One version with no DJ drops - it's set up like a two-sided album - and then we have one with DJ Don Cannon and DJ Green Lantern where they mix it up DJ style."
When asked about the reason for changing his name to Bobby Ray, he said, "The difference between B.o.B. and Bobby Ray is ... when I was signed under B.o.B., I was really young and didn't understand the type of business I was getting into," he explained.
"[I didn't understand] how free I could be with the music. I felt like I had to play this person, play this certain character - talk a certain way, dress a certain way, rap a certain way. Now that I look back on it, I don't really feel that way. I don't really believe it. I wouldn't do that now. I wanted to break away from that and not box myself in. Bobby Ray isn't a character - he's really me. At the same time, it's so different, it's like a snake shedding its skin. Shed the old and onto something new. When I feel that's had its run, I don't think I'll do another name-change, but you're constantly evolving and that's where the inspiration from that came from. ... Moving forward, I'll officially be Bobby Ray."
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