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Bow Wow: Gettin' Grown


May 23, 2008 | Tags: none

 

Bow Wow has made one of the smartest career moves I've seen since the homie Sickamore left Atlantic. As DX reported today, dude is giving up rap to pursue his acting career.

To me, Bow Wow has always been one of the most misunderstood emcees out there. Coming into the game as a little kid was cool back then, because he was essentially the same age as much of his demographic. Cosignage by Snoop and Dre and signing to Death Row wasn’t a good fit for the young’n, so he linked up with the king of kid acts in Jermaine Dupri, donned a chain with a Mickey Mouse charm, and clowned the singer of 3LW on record. Life was good.

But homie hit his high teens a few years ago, and just like anybobdy else his age, he wants to be an adult. Hell, technically, he is an adult (according to his bio on AllMusicGuide, he should be 21 years old or so now). Thing is, after coming in as a youngster, people don’t believe you, you need more people. So that’s what he tried to do—he got a grill from Paul Wall, wifed up Ciara, had cameos with the likes of Mike Jones, visits the Playboy Mansion, wheels pricey whips in music videos, and dismissed Will Smith as “a gimmick” instead of a rapper. He also declared himself, Kanye West, 50 Cent, and “maybe Jay” as the “only real rappers out there.” Him being younger only made the latter two comments worse, because it looks like he doesn’t respect those that came before him. But when it boils down to it, he was in a transitional period in his life just like everybody else his age was. *And as much flack as I’ma catch for this, dude is actually a competent rapper with a decent flow—“Let Me Hold You” was a perfect radio single aside from the kiddy chants at the end of the song, and I’d rather listen to verses from him than some of the lower-tier emcees saturating the airwaves.*

But finally, young homie’s smartening up. Just like he said on the “Oh I Think They Like Me” remix: “Pool in the front and the backyard, I ain’t gotta act hard, I’m under 21 with a black card.” He knows that musically he’ll always get hated on (some warranted, some not), and movies are where the money’s at anyway, so he’s refocusing. The same cat he dissed before, he’s now looking to as a role model. And last time I heard, he was gettin’ in this:

Looks like homie's gettin' grown.

 

EDIT: OK, according to Bossip (pause at being on Bossip), now, he's fucking with Dollicia Bryan. That young upgrade. Cover courtesy of 2DopeBoyz.

 

Shad's making it happen. 

 


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