{"id":10468,"date":"2016-08-09T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=10468"},"modified":"2016-08-09T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:51:12","slug":"bow-wow-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/celebrities\/bow-wow-announces-his-retirement.html","title":{"rendered":"Bow Wow Announces His Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bow Wow Announces His Retirement<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Bow Wow Announces His Retirement From Rap and Final Album:<\/span><\/strong>He started out as Lil Bow Wow, then dropped the \u201cLil\u201d when he matured and moved into acting and now he\u2019s hanging it up entirely. After wrapping up an Australian tour, Bow Wow (born Shad Moss) announced on Sunday in a series of tweets that he\u2019s giving up the mic at age 29, but not before releasing one last album. \u201cRetirement only means that it is time for a new adventure,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram on Sunday, in which he noted that he\u2019s sold more than 10 million albums during his career and that, as promised years ago, he\u2019s retiring from the rap game before age 30.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bow Wow began rapping at age six and attracted the attention of Snoop Dogg, who gifted him with the name Lil Bow Wow. A few years later producer Jermaine Dupri took the then-11-year-old rapper under his wing, releasing his debut album in 2000, Beware the Dog, which featured a collabo with Snoop, \u201cBow Wow (That\u2019s My Name),\u201d as well as the hit \u201cBounce With Me\u201d (featuring Xscape) and \u201cPuppy Love\u201d with Jagged Edge. He followed with the No. 1 platinum album Doggy Bag in 2002, the year he aced the \u201cLil\u201d from his stage name.<\/span>
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Then came Unleashed in 2003, Wanted in 2005 and The Price of Fame a year later. The rapper teamed with Omarion for a collabo album, Face Off, in 2007, which, like the previous two albums, charted lower than his earlier efforts. His most recent album was New Jack City II from 2009, which featured tracks with Soulja Boy, Nelly, Dupri, T.I., T-Pain and Trey Songz. After promoting a new album on Cash Money Records for several years, Bow Wow announced last year that he\u2019d split with the label and signed with Bad Boy Records. <\/span><\/p>\n

Given his long history in the game, the series of Sunday tweets included an extended list of accomplishments, including his claims that he\u2019s made more than $20 million off rapping and, you know, he got invited to the White House, so\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to three new unnamed TV shows he\u2019s working on \u2013 Bow Wow said he\u2019s \u201cfocusing on acting and hosting,\u201d as well as producing two TV shows this year. The rapper frequently stepped away from music to act, starting out on TV shows like Moesha, then making his big screen debut in Like Mike in 2002 and then appearing in the films Roll Bounce, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Hurricane Season, Lottery Ticket and Scary Movie 5, all while continuing to do spots on TV shows including Ugly Betty, Entourage and Smallville. He also hosted BET\u2019s 106th & Park for two years. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Retirement only means that it is time for a new adventure” over 10 million sold. This the last one. THANK YOU for the musical journey! #screamtours #over10miionsold #didwhatisaididdo #retirefromtherapgamebefore30 #blessed #princeofhiphop #sosodef #DPG “Im NOT coming back wearing the 4-5. ITS OVER<\/a><\/p>\n

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