Hailed as one of hip-hop's most inventive and exciting young artists, Bobby Ray spent much of this past summer touring alongside Asher Roth and Kid Cudi on the smash "Great Hangover Tour." The ATL-based rapper's hugely anticipated debut album, "B.o.B PRESENTS THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY RAY," is due out earlier next year.
Named among XXL's "10 Freshmen of 2009," Bobby Ray has been drawing ecstatic press in recent months. Smooth celebrated the multi-talented MC's "virtuosic talent" and "lyrical directness," while Ozone called him "one of the most anticipated newcomers in the game." Nylon hailed Bobby Ray as a leading figure of "a new generation of hip-hop upstarts" and the Wall Street Journal concurred, praising B.o.B for "testing the genre's conventions." Additional profiles have appeared in such publications as Complex and Paste, which included Bobby Ray in its "The Best of What's Next '09" round-up.
SEPTEMBER
23 Chicago, IL House of Blues
25 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
26 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
28 Norfolk, VA The Norva
29 Baltimore, MD Sonar
30 New Haven, CT Toads Place
OCTOBER
2 S. Hackensack, NJ School of Rock
4 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
6 Providence, RI Lupos
7 Allston, MA Harpers Ferry
9 Buffalo, NY Frightworld
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