Lil bow wow now
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Columbus, Ohio native Lil' Bow Wow, also known as Bow Wow, was born as Shad Gregory Moss on March 9, 1987. He first began to perform his raps when he was only five years old. When he threw out his stylings to the audience on the Chronic Tour, one of those most impressed was famous rapper Snoop Dogg, who right away nicknamed the young talent Lil' Bow Wow.
By the time the lil' rapper was 13 he had worked on the soundtracks for Wild Wild West and Big Momma's House and was featured in magazines including People, Vibe and even Esquire. In 2000 he released his first CD called Beware of Dog which included the hits Bow Wow (That's My Name), which featured Snoop and Bounce With Me. The cool thing about Lil Bow Wow is that he doesn't sing profanity-filled lyrics like so many other rap acts do. In an interview on MTV.com he said "I feel real good about being a role model, because so many kids are looking up to me already. But I have to tell them that you can't be like me. You've gotta try to be better than I can be. You've gotta try to be yourself, really." Another reason to look up to Lil
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(Lil’) Bow Wow 1987–
Rap musician
The youngest rapper ever to have a hit single in the United States, Bow Wow was six when he made his recording debut as a guest artist on a Snoop Dogg album. Calling himself "Lil' Bow Wow," he made his solo recording debut in 2000 at the age of 13 with Beware of Dog, which went double platinum the following year. A single from this album, "Bounce with Me," earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest rap star in American history. Bow Wow followed this release with Doggy Bag in 2001, and added "film star" to his resume a year later when he starred in the basketball movie Like Mike. In 2003 Bow Wow released his third album, Unleashed, added more film roles to his list of credits, and dropped the "Lil'" from his name. Unleashed continued the rapper's practice of clean lyrics, proving that rap music need not be vulgar to be popular.
Bow Wow was born Shad Gregory Moss on March 9, 1987, and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. His mother, Teresa Caldwell, a purchasing manager at a computer systems company, saw he
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Bow Wow (rapper)
American rapper and actor (born 1987)
"Bow Wow (musician)" redirects here. Not to be confused with Bow Wow (band).
Musical artist
Shad Gregory Moss (born March 9, 1987), better known by his stage name Bow Wow (formerly Lil' Bow Wow), is an American rapper and actor. His career began upon being discovered by rapper Snoop Dogg in 1993 at the age of six; five years later, he signed with record producer Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings, an imprint of Columbia Records. As Lil' Bow Wow, he released his debut studio album, Beware of Dog (2000) at age 13, and his second album, Doggy Bag (2001) the following year. Both met with commercial success, the albums peaked at numbers ten and 11 on the Billboard 200, respectively.
Moss then parted ways with So So Def and signed with its parent label, Columbia Records, to release his third album, Unleashed (2003). It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and was his first release after dropping "Lil'" from his stage name. His fourth album, Wanted (2005), spawned the singles "Let Me Hold You" (fea
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