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It’s been quite a year for the R&B singer and rapper B.o.B. In April he released his number one album B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray, followed by the hit singles Nothin’ on You (ft. Bruno Mars) and Airplanes (ft. Hayley Williams), and in early August he found out he was nominated for five 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Now he’s discovered he’s going to be performing at the VMAs as well – and he has a surprise in store for the viewers.

“I’m just gonna wear rocket boots the whole night. And nothing else”, he joked. “Buck naked, rocket boots. That’s how I roll.” But when he was asked about his chances of walking away with an award, he became a lot more humble. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. There are a lot of very talented artists and musicians in the categories I am nominated for so, really, I feel like just being nominated is cool.”

The 2010 VMAs will be broadcast live from Los Angeles at 9pm (ET) on 12^th September 2010.

Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., better known as simply Bobby Ray or by his stage name B.o.B, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, rapper, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

Simmons was born on 15^th November 1988 in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He took an interest in music from a very young age and in his teens, after his family had moved to Decatur, Georgia, he began to get involved in the local rap and hip hop scene. He joined the rap group HamSquad along with Playboy Tre, TJ Chapman and B. Rich but also produced a demo tape of his solo work. It was the latter which began to get Simmons industry attention in the late 2000s, and he was featured on the covers of both XXL and Vibe magazines in 2008 – being lauded as one of the next big hip hop stars.

The singer was signed to Grand Hustle and Atlantic Records in 2008 and, after releasing the non-album singles Haterz Everywhere, I’ll Be in The Sky and No Man’s Land, he started work on his debut studio album. B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray was eventually released on 27^th April 2010 and shot straight to number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 84,000 copies in its first week. It also reached the top 40 in Canada, the UK and Australia. The critically acclaimed album has produced two singles to date – the US and UK number one smash hit Nothin’ on You (ft. Bruno Mars) and the UK number one/US number two hit Airplanes (ft. Hayley Williams) – and the album’s third single Magic (ft. Rivers Cuomo) is set for release in mid-August.

B.o.B was recently nominated for three 2010 BET Awards – Best Male Hip-Hop Artist, Best Collaboration (Nothin’ On You ft. Bruno Mars) and Video of the Year (Nothin’ on You again).