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アメリカの男性ラッパー。本名はボビー・レイ・シモンズ・ジュニア。
13歳でラップを始め、18歳の時に、人気ラッパーT.I.が経営するクラブ「Crucial」でパフォーマンスをした事から、地元アトランタで大きな話題を呼ぶようになる。

2010年発表のシングル「Nothin’ On You」で全米シングルチャートにて2週連続1位を獲得し、一気に人気が爆発する。
デビューアルバム『B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray』も全米アルバム・チャート初登場1位を記録。現在までに40万枚以上を売り上げている。

2011年、グラミー賞にて「ベスト・ラップソング」を始めとした、計4部門にノミネートされた。

B.o.B ft. Taylor Swift

歌詞の中に登場する二人称複数形（我々：US）は誰のことなのでしょうか？

最初は経済的に恵まれていない人。すなわち貧困層の人々ことだと思ったのですが、２人とも(BOTH)という単語が使われているということは２人であるわけです。

一人はB.o.Bだと思いますが、もう一人は誰なんでしょうか？

[Hook: Taylor Swift]
I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both us
Some day I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us

[Verse 1: B.o.B]
Ever thought about losing it
When your money’s all gone and you lose your whip
You might lose your grip when the landlord tell ya that you do for rent
And the grass so green on the other side
Make a nigga wanna run straight through the fence
Open up the fridge about 20 times
But still can’t find no food in it
That’s foolishness
And sometimes I wonder, why we care so much about the way we look
And the way we talk and the way we act and the clothes we bought
How much that cost?
Does it even really matter?
Cause if life is an uphill battle
But y’all tryna climb with the same ol’ ladder
In the same boat, with the same ol’ paddle
Why so shallow? I’m just asking
What’s the pattern to the madness?
Everybody ain’t a number one draft pick
Most of us ain’t Hollywood actors
But if it’s all for one, and one for all
Then maybe one day, we all can ball
Do it one time for the underdogs
Sincerely yours, from one of yours

[Hook]

[Verse 2: B.o.B]
I can feel your pain, I can feel your struggle
You just wanna live, but everything’s so low
That you could drown in a puddle
That’s why I gotta hold us up, yeah hold us up
For all the times no one’s ever spoke for us
To every single time that they play this song
You can say that that’s what Bobby Ray wrote for us
When the tides get too high
And the sea up underneath get so deep
And you feel like you’re just another person
Getting lost in the crowd, way up high in the nosebleeds
Uh, because we won’t be near yet, both of us
But we still stand tall with our shoulders up
And even though we always against the odds
These are the things that’ve molded us
And if life hadn’t chosen us
Sometimes I wonder where I would have wound up
Cause if it was up to me, i’d make a new blueprint
Than build it from the ground up, hey
But if it’s all for one, and one for all
Then maybe one day, we all can ball
Do it one time for the underdogs
From Bobby Ray, to all of y’all