Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Quote of the Day
Posted by Bossip Staff
Lil Bow Wow says bye bye to Hip-Hop and hello to acting:
“‘After 16 years in the music industry and six successful albums, I’ve decided to shift my energy to something else I’m passionate about, acting,’ he said. ‘I’m going to try to be the next Will Smith.’”
Uhh yeah..Get in line. After his riveting performance in Roll Bounce, he ought to be a shoe-in.
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Gone big head lil boy….
great….diddy jr? i can’t wait for his next amazing role.
Sixteen years in the industry? How old is he? He calls it a shift. I say that he was forced out.
16 YRS? 4 REAL I THOUGHT HE WAS ONLY 18?
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That Fool wasn’t in the in music industry for 16yrs thats bullshit.I guess his ghost writters ran outta songs for him.
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That Fool wasn’t in the in music industry for 16yrs thats bullshit.I guess his ghost writters ran outta songs for him.
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Did he start hip-hopping right out of the womb. Has to be a typo, he looks 16
He is said to be found by his fans on a celeb dating site named ” M a r r y M i l l i o n a i r e . C o m ” They said most of his fans like to go that site to chat about this stars.
He was discovered at four by Snoop Dogg on the Jenny JOnes show. He’s now 21. So that would be 16 years.
give it up bow wow…good luck 2 you and omarion tho…splendid union indeed!…LOL
and this is relevant because???
Uhh yeah..Get in line. After his riveting performance in Roll Bounce, he ought to be a shoe-in.
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*snickering at Bossip’s sarcasm.* He wasn’t too bad, he’s a bit tiny, but I’m sure there’ll be some role out there that’ll be perfect for him.
For the teenie boppers out there, Bow Wow was on Snoop’s 1st CD, Doggystyle as a little boy. He was going to be Snoop’s protege’ but he decided to send him to Jermaine Dupri since he was great working with kid stars. Soooo, yes, it’s been about 16 years for Bow Wow who is now 21. I don’t blame him for trying his hand at something different. He’s doing better than a lot of us right now, so don’t know somebody’s hustle. At least he’s not getting into any dumb sh*t. Do your thang!
Every entertainer wants to be an actor, and every actor wants to be a entertainer. When are people going to realize that you need to be either or!! Not both!!! He’s giving up rapping because no one is buying his damn albums!!! So now, hes going to a Plan B! Yeah, whatever!!!
Yep, it’s been 16 years, he’s 21 now. Bow Wow did pretty good in Roll Bounce. Don’t knock a person’s hustle when they are trying to better themselves. At least he’s attempting to advance his career. To be negative about his efforts, or anyone else’s efforts to do better is called being a HATER! It’s not very becoming.
It make sense. His last 3 albums haven’t sold to well so…
shoo-in
not shoe-in
but i think hes a better actor than rapper…although i dont see him as a will smith leading man type…more of the sidekick…wait a minute, its bow wow, he aint playin second string to nobody!!! NEXT!
Come on Lil Bow Wizzy to be the next Will Smith you’d have to grow like 4ft. Maybe he can start on the Disney channel and be lil Romeo homeboy. That money dosen’t make him a man. And Will Smith if him and Jada ever break up. I’m here for you Big Willie!!
Most actors are extremely short. So I doubt if he was referring to Will’s height. What I wanna know is why all the hate? I’m sure the same ones hating are working away in their lil customer service cubicles. So just cause u can’t move up don’t knock his hustle.
WHAT IS UP WITH THESE SINGERS/RAPPERS TURNING INTO ACTORS????????
Didn’t he diss Will Smith a year or two ago? I thought he said something about Will not having any street credibility…
-Lou in the Chi
Lol @ you talking about folk in customer service cubicles…not to mention lil ones.
*It’s going to take some big acting chops & classes for him to avoid being a typecast robot.
-KJF
Yes, he did. I remember – then I forgot. That was around the time he dropped the Lil off Bow Wow.
Good move but what Black Hollywood needs is better scripts. This is just a thought…since rappers “supposedly” write their on stuff and some songs are really creative. Why don’t they try to um..take a class or two…and improve their writing skills!! Then they can really secure their furture. Writing is closer to what they do anyway..b/c most rappers are not really “performers” (Diddy is not a rapper to me) they just kind of run around the stage.
Besides brother Tyler Perry…most GOOD black movies now are autobiographical…which is cool..but why do black movies that fair well at the box office have one of these things:
1) Singing & Dancing
2) Tyler Perry (acting or directing)
3) Be about a former or current Black Celebrity
3) Wyans Bros (Nuff said)
4) Gabrielle & Morris dating
5) The other “typical” black actors – Sanaa, Nia, Boris, Vivica, etc.
I miss movies like “Waiting to Exhale”, “Love Jones” and “Love & Basketball”.
Funny how he tried to play Will Smith a while ago now that’s suddenly his idol. He’s so egotistical which is why his last 2 albums actually weren’t very successful.
I don’t like him at all but at least he has sense enough to know that rap has its cut off point. I actually thought roll bounce was cute and he did a decent job. I don’t think at this point anyone is going to take him too seriously as an adult rapper and now that Chris Brown has the tween girls on lock, his music career will only dwindle down.
@lady A….I remember when he tried to play Will Smith and look at him now! What a little idiot!
if he’s the next will smith, 50 cent is the next samuel l jackson… bullshit
his whiney @ss
I liked Roll Bounce. Anyway, Bow Wow will only be successful as long as he looks young enough to play a teenager. He is too short to play an adult.
He was wrong for running his mouth on Will Smith. Will Smith wasn’t/isn’t trying to be a big name rapper but still gets mad love for Summertime.
Does Bow Wow even have a hit like that? No.
*If he does oops.
I just can’t get past that clip of him snapping and bringing his arm around full circle.
Who taught him how to neck roll like that?
Folk are calling him little as a rapper standing by himself…he looks smaller standing next to people.
Dwarf…
Well good luck to him.
He looks like a crackhead fool in this picture. You can tell he never had anything, flashing this money. What goes up must come down. IT’S CHRIS BROWN TURN SHINE.
Chris Brown is the main now!
This little boy, dissed Will Smith, then he bit the hand that feed him by dissing Jermaine Dupree, Talking about he didn’t need J D to produce his album. Yet when the little album didn’t sale well. He went back to JD. I don’t care for his attitude.
The Bow Wow/Omarion album pretty much flopped. This is why he is doing the whole movie thing now. Bow Wow last solo record didn’t do all that well either. Ain’t nobody stupid!
Melle, Baller & Luminous…
True & I agree w/the above comments. These new celebs confuse being in the public & going to parties w/talent & success.
Being a celeb/having talent & respect isn’t what/how it used to be. Celebs seem so common these days…there are only a few stars left.
Speaking of, who do you all think are the few true stars around?
Good luck Bow Wow hope it works out for you.
Good Luck Bow Weezy!!!!!
anyways this little nicca better pick him some good roles. all that kiddie shit is gone now. youse a grown man now. so get your paper
16 years in the music biz? Rap isn’t music. It’s jackoff crap for homos!
‘Lil Bow Wow says bye bye to Hip-Hop’….Bout m*fukkin time!
LOL Rollbounce was a good movie
When the albums stop selling….try acting!
Ok…I seriously doubt if his rap career is over. Really there are enough teens for the entire industry. The mainstream line up anyway. There are some people willing to go see him in whatever, rapping or acting. He does have a young look. I am sure his fan base is big enough to cover his endeavors!
smh @ him wanting to be the next will smith. he will never be and wasn’t he dissing will saying that he’s better than him. bow wow has no true talent the thingz he does is just ok. nothing he does stands out.
1 word proactiv. His acne is atrocious.
1 word proactiv. His acne is atrocious.
One word: “Depends”. The wet stain in his crotch area says it all. Now that I think about it, he is a little cat so, “Pull-Ups” would be more appropriate for him…
He irks my spirit
At least he knows when to get out the game. There are so called hard core rappers in the game now that will not last as long as Bow Wow has. I believe Bow Wow can be a successful actor. His acting is much more believable than Diddys. Actually Roll Bounce was not Bow Wow’s first movie, “Like Mike” was. He was a cute little boy back then, but he still did a good job.
nobody wants to look at his little skinny ass. but it would be great if they gave him a gay role..lol bring out his true nature!!
I abhor this!!!! They never think about the actors who have actually studied acting. I am sick of all these no-talents landing acting jobs when they SIMPLY CAN”T ACT!!! WHy not go to school and educate that illiterate Brain of his. Then again he probably fears reading books and doing homework. WHy do some black entertainers insist on taking the easy way out by moving from singing to acting, and not getting an education? I have yet to figure this out. No matter how much money they are making,you will always be seen as ignorant ass blacks.
When the albums stop selling,invest in business, real esate, get a degree. Start a charity. Do something with your brain for once! Unitelligence,ignorance and stupidity is very fluent in black society. I frown upon this type of behavior.
SIT YOUR LITTLE STUPID ASS DOWN THAT WHAT EVERY RAPPER SAYING NOW ITS LIKE A TREND WITH THE FOWEL ASS NIGGA,IF THESE MOTHER FUCKERS GOING INTO ACTIN FULL TIME IAM GOING TO STOP GOING TO THE BOX OFFICE,EVEN THE GAME SAYING THE SAME THING NOW EVERYBODY WANTS TO ACT,AND THESE NIGGA CANT ACT,SO BOW WOW PUT YOUR LITTLE 10 GRAND BACK IN YOUR KIDS SIZE JEANS AND SAVE YOUR MONEY CAUSE IF YOU GOING INTO ACTING YOU GOING TO NEED EVERY CENT U GOT LITTLE MAN
AND I DIDNT BELIVE IT WHEN U AND CIRA WAS KICKIN IT IT WAS PUBLICITY U NOW SHE LIKES WOMEN,ASK MISSEY,HO TURNED THAT CUP CAKE BITCH OUT,1,2 STEP THAT HOE
KJF
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Didn’t he diss Will Smith a year or two ago? I thought he said something about Will not having any street credibility…
^^THAAAANK U! That’s exactly what I was about to say. Didn’t Will have to put him in his place, too?
Fake ass…The next Will he will not be…lol
The first thing LIL Bow Wow needs to do is change his name. It was cute when he was 4, but it ain’t cute at 21. Then he needs to go and see a therapist to get that Lil Man’s Ego Syndrome in check. I heard he is a real nasty ass and has burned a lot of bridges in the industry.
its funny how music is everybody passion when they first come out… until they stop selling albums!!! then they make an announcent saying that ACTING is their new passion….(how ironic)
but goodluck to the man.
Bow wow is making the right decision. hes definitely a better actor than he is a rapper!!
P.S. He will never be the next will smith. Will is (at least) six feet tall!!
this should be labeled when the checks stop coming in nobody is buying bow wow’s mickey mouse rap so he is now trying to get into acting like we didnt see like mike, Johnson Family vacation, and Roll Bounce which was actually better than the previous two but since hes been in the game for a long time with a name still bow wow at 21 maybe he should get into business or something make a name for himself then people will stop calling him lil bow wow
The first thing LIL Bow Wow needs to do is change his name. It was cute when he was 4, but it ain’t cute at 21. Then he needs to go and see a therapist to get that Lil Man’s Ego Syndrome in check. I heard he is a real nasty ass and has burned a lot of bridges in the industry.
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This should be under HO SIT DOWN!
He now wants to be an actor after dissing Will Smith, Nick Cannon and Romeo as fake rapper/actors? Will Smith WORST movie made more than Bow Wow’s best one. In Roll Bounce, who got more attention? Nick Cannon and his five minutes in the movie or Bow Wow? Nick is on the dvd cover and he was barely in the film. Romeo might be doing a ton of direct to dvd stuff, but it sells.
Bow Wow’s issue-he needs to get rid of all those tatoos. Who is going to waste money editing that crap out?
And what acting is he talking about-the movies that he has line up now are roles where he plays a wannabe thug. TYPECASTING anyone?
He is doing this because in his quest to be a thug, he has turned folk off. You can’t be a thug when you have been in the public eye since the age of 4. You come off as fake and people are tired of his music-I heard some of his freestyles-how many times can you talk about strippers? And everybody knows he has ghostwriters.
He better do a Tyler Perry and film a few episodes of his own sitcom and try to sell it. I’m sure The N network will give him a chance. Maybe the WWE will hire him to be Cryme Tyme’s manager. I’m sure we’ll all watch Raw to see him get chokeslammed.
Ghost! Damn. i hear you. Bow Wow needs to get rid of those fat little boys he hangs around. That don’t seem to have a job, but living off of him. I guess they are his yes boys. I also agree, he wants to be so hard it’s fake. If you burn bright you burn out. Or burn up.
get that money Bow-Wow
SINCE BOW WOW WAS BRUTALLY RAPED BY HIS DRIVER A COUPLE YEARS BACK HE’S NOT BEEN THE SAME.I HEAR HE SLEEPS WITH A TEDDY HE CALLS MR.T.AND WAKES UP AT NIGHT IN COLD SWEATS SCREAMING STOP IT MISTER IT HURTS.
I told my daughter somebody was going to knock bow wow out the box.
chris brown!! put oh boy into retirement.
After seeing both of them perform. She likes Chris.
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One word: “Depends”. The wet stain in his crotch area says it all. Now that I think about it, he is a little cat so, “Pull-Ups” would be more appropriate for him
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i just going to say that he look like he wet his self or his pull up leaked lol. i hope he buys him some good diapers with that money
Just Sit and Be Pretty
*snickering at Bossip’s sarcasm.* He wasn’t too bad, he’s a bit tiny, but I’m sure there’ll be some role out there that’ll be perfect for him.
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yeah…. i hear “The Hobbit” is ready to start shooting. or maybe the movie version of “Fantasy Island”.
Midget swag..
THIS IS WHAT A FOOL WITH MONEY LOOKS LIKE. AND A FOOL THAT HAS NEVER HAD MONEY.
you know wht bissiop you have alot of haters that read your articles. okay bow wow has gohst writers we all know that but what we also know is bow wow is rich1 everyone who has said something 9 times out of 10 aint so you do the math. damn near everyone has ghost writers these days even back then do motown ring a bell? well smoky wrote damn near all their hits so if you base your likings on who writes their own music you dont really like nobody. thats a damn shame grown ass peole hating on bow wow that should let you know you doing something right i aint evenm a bow wow fan but i dont see no need for haters and at the end of yall hating ass blogs he still gonna be rich and where you gonna be at the computer wishing you had ihis cahs if you dont like it o well hating is aginst bmy religion no matter who it is yall lame as hell……….. o yeah as long as he is fine as hell he will always sell that mickey mouse shit because his fan base been wit him his whole career. be like me hater free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey extacy????? umm….. who’s your ghostwriter?
is it just me? Or does BOW WOW and Lil Mama look like twins?
FIRST OF FUKIN ALL..BOSSIP.COM R FUKIN HATERS…DNT BE TALKIN ABOUT BOW WOW LIKE THAT STUPID ASS BYTCHES..DNT YA KNO BOW GOT FAME,MONEY,GRLS,CRIBS,CARS..WUT DA FUK DO YA HAVE?? NO LIFE..BLOGGIN BOUT SOMEBODY DATS RICHER DAN YA WHOLE FAMILY GENERATION..BOW WOW HAS BEEN IN DA GAME FOR 16 YRS..IF YA DUMB ASSES DNT KNO HE WAS IN DA CHRONIC TOUR WIT SNOOP.NOW HOW MANY PPL COULD DO DAT AT DA AGE OF 4?? NOBODY..HOW MANY PPL CAN SELL A 3 A MILLIE A MILLIE OUT DA GATE?? NO FUKIN BODY..SO DNT TELL ME ALL DIS BULLSHYT.I BELIEVE BOW COULD BE DA NEXT WILL SMITH..COME ON HES BEEN IN SOO MANY MOVIES…LIKE MIKE..JOHNSON…ALL BOUT DA BENJIMINS..TOKOYO DRIFT FAST FURIOUS…ROLL BOUNCE..COME ON AND NOW HES WORKIN WIT LIL WAYNE ON A MOVIE CALLED HURRICANE SEASONS..SO DNT EVEN TRY TO PLAY URSELF..I LUV BOW WOW I BEEN WIT HIM SINCE DAY 1 AND I WOULD NOT STAND BY TO HEAR DA SHYT YA TALK BOUT HIM…I AM BOW WOWS WIFEY..N I LUVVV HIM..I WILL FIGHT ANYBODY DAT TALKS SHYT BOUT DA PRINCE OF HIP HOP..IM OUT DIS BYTCH…..BX FINEST