Bow Wow could finally be ready to release new music, and if so, he plans to use some help from past collaborator Chris Brown. The rapper recently took to X to announce that fans should expect something from the two this summer. “Bow Wow x Chris Brown… June 2024,” Bow Wow wrote.
The rapper has worked with Breezy on a number of records before, including 2006’s Top 10 hit “Shortie Like Mine,” as well as “Outta My System” of the same year and 2009’s “Ain’t Thinking Bout You.”
Although it’s not certain that Bow Wow was talking about a song on the X post, he is currently putting together his final album, Before 30, which will drop via Snoop Dogg’s Death Row Records.
Nelly and Ashanti have been sparking romance rumors
Nelly and Ashanti raised eyebrows when they were spotted holding hands during Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia’s fight Saturday night (April 22). As clips of the them together have been making rounds online, Bow Wow came across one of the clips and decided to leave a word of advice in the comments.
“Yo mo! I know we not seeing eye-to-eye either,” Bow Wow wrote. “But from little bro to big bro, STOP PLAYING AND MARRY THIS WOMAN BRO! You like 50 [laughing face emoji]. Sit your old ass down [laughing face emojis] this your queen.”
Bow Wow says Nelly mediated between him and Jermaine Dupri
Bow Wow credits Nelly for helping set aside his differences with Jermaine Dupri. Bow and Dupri had been going into it with the former not being very proud of signing with the latter, but Dupri also claimed credit for Bow’s success. But it looks like Nelly helped the two bury the hatchet.
“The best way to explain it without going way too deep into it- and I told him this because we had a real talk recently,” Bow Wow explained on Math Hoffa’s podcast. “Last month, I pulled up to the studio, and Nelly had to be there to be the mediator. I said, ‘I’ll come inside when you there. But you gotta be there. You gotta be right in the middle of this s**t.‘
“Nelly’s like an uncle, like a big brother,” he added. “So I walk in and I told [Jermaine Dupri] to my face like, ‘You like Star Wars so much, right? That’s what we is. You Obi-Wan and I’m Anakin.‘ That’s all it is. That’s the relationship. I’m the young n***a who wanted all the info. I’m ready to go, I’m ready to go and it’s, ‘No, Bow Wow…’ That’s all Anakin was. Obi was the teacher, Anakin was the student. When Anakin wanted to go out, get it cracking, ‘No, Anakin. Stand back, you not ready.’
“So that’s the whole thing is that we’re the same, very competitive,” the Ohio rapper continued. “I’m smart because I learned from you, could potentially be even smarter because I had three n***as who I learned s**t from. You had no one you learned s**t from. So I learned from you, I learned from Snoop, I learned from Puff, I learned from Birdman. Like listen sometimes, but JD is stubborn though.”
Bow Wow recalls appearing on Snoop Dogg’s early works
Rapper Bow Wow entered the entertainment industry at an early age, but he has Snoop Dogg to thank for giving him his earliest exposure. During a recent conversation with HipHopDx, Wow discussed how at only six, he ended up opening Snoop’s “Gin & Juice” music video. The rapper is one of the two kids playing on the couch of Snoop’s dad at the beginning of the clip.
“We moved to LA right after,” he recalled. “And it was really them starting to implement me around Snoop and the Death Row family. And I guess once they drew up the write-up for the ‘Gin & Juice’ video, they was like, ‘Yo, we need some bad kids. Jumping on the couch.’ And they was like, ‘Well, we just found this little kid in Ohio we’re about to sign: throw him in there.’ Which was smart.”
Bow Wow went on to reveal that he also contributed to Snoop Dogg’s debut album, Doggstyle, which housed “Gin & Juice.”
“That’s me doing all the voices on Doggystyle, Snoop’s first album,” he continued. “All the kid voices. It’s like I was born to act, born to entertain. I was born to do what I do.”
Bow Wow didn’t know he had an impact on DMX’s song “Party Up”
Bow Wow made his acting debut in the 2002 film, Like Mike, while he was still a child. At some point in the movie, Bow Wow and actor Morris Chestnut were reciting DMX’s hit record “Party Up.”
During an interview with HipHopDx this week, Wow revealed that he wasn’t aware of his impact on the record until X died in 2020.
“I never knew that people’s first time hearing ‘Party Up’ was my movie, which was crazy,” Wow explained. “I didn’t notice that Like Mike did that for that record until he passed away. Because that record is so massive, it’s so big. It might be DMX’s biggest record of his career.
He added, “So being that the record was already a monster hit, that’s why we put it in the movie. It’s like, ‘Y’all thought this was new?’ It’s a classic. Are you fuckin’ kinding me? You woulda never heard this DMX record, like where have you been?’”
When was Bow Wow born? Bow Wow was born on March 9.
Bow Wow, born Shad Moss, was born in 1987. He was a child rapper known as Lil Bow Wow and had a string of hits in the ’90s and ’00s. Early in his career, he was featured on Snoop’s debut album and Jermaine Dupri helped him become a solo star.
Later, Bow Wow became a reality TV star and guest host on BET’s 106 and Park. He once dated Ciara. He has also tried it out as an actor in the movies Like Mike and Tokyo Drift and others from the Fast and the Furious franchise.
