Talk:Bow Wow (rapper)

Bow wow has another child. The girl that hit him with the paternity test that came back positive. He supposedly had met the 2nd child mother while on the road at a party.

"Bow wows age"

Bow wow is 26 years old. It says he was born march 9th 1987. That would make him 25, he is listed as 24 on his wiki page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan Emery4 (talk • contribs) 05:12, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Edit request "Early Life"

In 1993 he attended "The Chronic Tour" performed by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg. He got the chance to get on stage & show off his rapping skills. As he was among the audience who were called to come to the stage, the enthusiastic boy eagerly displayed his rhyming skills in front of the crowd without any hesitation. Impressed by Snoop Dogg he was called backstage & he was offered the job to finish off the tour as the opening act. Snoop ended up giving him the name "Lil' Bow Wow". He was later signed to "Death Row Records". During that year Suge Knight gave him the chance to appear on the "Arsenio Hall Show" to show his skills to the world. He was on Snoop's debut album "Doggystyle" for a skit called "Betta Ask Somebody". He made a cameo in the video "Gin and Juice" as one of the kids jumping on the couch. He was set to have a song on the "Murder Was the Case" soundtrack but was denied due to his explicit language. He recorded more songs with the Death Row roster but were unreleased for the same reason. One his songs were released on the Death Row compilation "20 to Life: Vol. 1".

In 1998 he & his mother got a call from a representative of Epic Records to fly them out to Atlanta to meet Jermaine Dupri. One night while Jermaine Dupri was perfoming the song "Money Ain't a Thang" with Jay-Z, Bow Wow had asked Jermaine could he perform with them. Hesitant at first he Jermaine let Bow Wow come out & perform with them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akid90s (talk • contribs) 07:52, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

References

"Music Producer"

The introductory section and infobox have Bow Wow listed as a music producer, however there's no assertion of this in the article at all - only of him being a writer and performer. Can someone cite these claims? It's all too easy to group rappers with producers (and mistaking producers with engineers). Booglamay (talk) 21:31, July 2008 (UTC)

Personal life

"well i have to say i married my beautiful bride that lives in washington dc.her name is Adrena Autumn Si'mone Dorsey.i love to death and nothing will ever separate us.she is the love of my life." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.116.54 (talk) 22:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Pedigree vs. New Jack city pt. 2

Under no research can i find that bow wow has announced he changed the title from Pedigree to New Jack City pt. 2. Even on his official myspace, it still remains that the album is titled "Pedigree". In my research, the album title was not changed, where did you find such source that lead you to believe he changed the title? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.233.102.104 (talk) 02:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

eg. here: http://realtalkny.uproxx.com/2008/09/topic/artists/bow-wow/bow-wows-7th-album-new-jack-city-part-2-drops-december-8th/ The same video can be seen on Bow Wow`s web page.ABC101090 (talk) 22:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Change the picture

I believe that the defult picture should be changed to something more appropiate. That fact that the defult of bow wow grabbing his private parts is just unessessary. Can someone change that picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apawk (talk • contribs) 13:47, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Retirement

if this bum crease makes his retirement album also stating he is lil mama with music making. Shouldn't his "Year Active" be changed to 1993 - 2009??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.200.51 (talk) 03:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Record label

It says he's part of Young Money, but as of July 20 2009, he is not part of any label. His twitter, twitter.com/bowwow614, says that he's trying to choose between Grand Hustle and So So Def. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.252.145 (talk) 15:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Grand Hustle

He is officially signed to Grand Hustle/ Atlantic. It says on his twitter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.4.59 (talk) 18:27, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism (2009)

{{editsemiprotected}} The sentence about homosexuality at the beginning of the page is vandalism and should be deleted, right? Sietschie (talk) 10:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Done Welcome and thanks for pointing that out. (...pointing that out out?) Celestra (talk) 15:26, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Why Not Put Bow Wow's Official Mixtapes get now?

He has already released 3 mixtapes(Half Man Half Dog Vol.1, Half Man Half Dog Vol.2, Greenlight Vol.1). And Greenlight Vol.2 will be released in December. Why not write this verified information on wikipage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.200.50.234 (talk) 19:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC) justin beiber sucks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.25.76 (talk) 00:45, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Picture

Bow Wow's Article currently has no picture, can anyone please add a picture? In his early life category can someput the picture of him, Snoop Dogg, & Dr. Dre then in in on the "Beware of Dog" can someone put the picture of him, Jermaine Durpi, & Jay-Z. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramy Ramz69 (talk • contribs) 16:58, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Movie Role

For Lottery Ticket, he has the Lead Role, so could someone please add that?

Summary

He appeared in multiple episodes of the HBO series Entourage...not just one. He was involved in a multiple episode story arc involving Eric. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.231.107.84 (talk) 17:46, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Possible Mistakes

Hello,

Just letting you guys know that someone who knows about Bow Wow might want to check the article for errors. Someone vandalized it earlier and although I fixed as many errors as I could find, there might be some that I missed because I don't know that much about Bow Wow.

Sorry for troubling you all about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.105.147.203 (talk) 04:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Wiener = Mistake

In the Early life section: "At age three, he became interested in wiener." that's a joke, or?

79.221.36.77 (talk) 13:24, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

PERSONAl LIFE

Bow wow dated R&b singer ciara for about 2 years. he has also dated angela simmons it been reported that they have started dating again. Bow Wow is expecting his first child with ex girlfriend jolie. He is engaged to reality star Erica Mena. She announced it at the BET Hip Hop Awards after being asked if Shad was her boyfriend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.238.44 (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Someone needs to add the newly released info about his daughter who lives across country. He doesn't want to release her name or photo for her saftey, anonymity, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.232.106.49 (talk) 14:12, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

This discussion is about a pisces girl that like's bow wow.

WE ARE THE SAME SIGN PISCES YOUR BIRTHDAY HIS MARCH,9 I AM MARCH,4 1981 AND I LOVE YOU I JUST WANT ONE DATE WITH YOU TO MAKE MY DREAM COME TRUE PLEASE ARE JUST GIVE ME ONE CALL TO SAY JUST LIVE HER LIFE WITHOUT ME AN ONLY AS A FAN I JOB I AM A SOICALWORK I HAVE A BACHELOR AND I HAVE MY CASH MY OWN CAR,APARTMENT.I JUST WANT ONE DATE OR A PHONE CALL 1347-7O7-9494 PLEASE I USE TO LIVE IN NEW YORK BUT NOW I LIVE IN OHIO,TOLEDO MY FACEBOOK IS traciewilliams11@yahoo.com PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR FRIEND PLEASE I AM JUST ASKING FOR ONE PHONE CALL OR JUST DATE PLEASE HONEY PLEASE I KNOW YOU ARE MR.ALDOT BUT PLEASE.............LOVE CHRAMS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.201.53 (talk) 02:09, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Requested move (2011)

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 12:35, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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Bow Wow → Bow Wow (rapper) – Bow Wow (band) is a well known and highly influential band, well connected with hard rock, they get just a few more ghits [1] [2] so it appears that there is no primary meaning. Therefore the DAB should be at Bow Wow and both the rapper and band disambiguated. See also Talk:Bow Wow (band)#Possible move of the DAB. Andrewa (talk) 01:39, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

• Bow Wow (disambiguation) → Bow Wow

Survey

• comment the rock band does not get more, since the search is faulty, as it gets alot of things not related to the band that is described in our article. [3] 65.94.47.63 (talk) 02:24, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Agree they are pretty naive searches, with many extraneous ghits, but I thought (and still think) that they were adequate for the purpose. Being a bit more careful in searching for the rapper [4] to try to exclude irrelevant ghits results in him getting even fewer ghits than does the band in your similarly revised search. Interested in any other comparisons. Andrewa (talk) 04:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Note also that what is proposed is not that the band is the primary topic, but that neither is. So it doesn't matter at all which gets more, what matters is that neither gets enough to suggest that it might be the primary topic. Andrewa (talk) 04:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
    • Yes, disambiguation seems best, the argument presented for it is not the best though. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
• Support disambiguation, I still think of the rapper as Lil' Bow Wow. 65.94.47.63 (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
• Support neither are enough to be the primary topic. Xfansd (talk) 16:12, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose Google search results are almost entirely faulty. I think they have a random number generator somewhere up at Google headquarters. Marcus Qwertyus 01:09, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
  • An interesting claim, but is there any evidence that the rapper is the primary meaning? Surely, in the absence of any, we should default to the position that there isn't one, as proposed? Then the vexed issue of the validity of the interpretation of the google test (and I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, but I do note the almost entirely in your claim) doesn't come into it. Andrewa (talk) 07:39, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

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Edit request from NLTlover1, 6 July 2011

On July 6, 2011, Bow Wow posted a link on his Twitter page that led to a letter he wrote to his fans. According to this letter, video vixen, Miss Joie, did give birth to his first child. The date that his daughter was born has not been confirmed yet, but her name is Shai Moss.

Source: http://www.bowwowtoday.com/BowWowToday/Official_BowWow_Today.html

NLTlover1 (talk) 20:51, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Already done Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 18:42, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

bow wow has a new ep album coming out this year wit 8 songs & plus has a movie based on his life he is working with Snoop Dogg add that to the Wikipedia

Bow Wow has a new ep album with 8 songs is gonna come with a dvd movie based on his life it will be dropping around spring 2014 that needs to be added on Wikipedia peace Rashad Johnson (talk) 22:35, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 March 2014

In 1993 he attended "The Chronic Tour" performed by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg. He got the chance to get on stage & show off his rapping skills. As he was among the audience who were called to come to the stage, the enthusiastic boy eagerly displayed his rhyming skills in front of the crowd without any hesitation. Impressed by Snoop Dogg he was called backstage & he was offered the job to finish off the tour as the opening act. Snoop ended up giving him the name "Lil' Bow Wow". He was later signed to "Death Row Records". Later that year Suge Knight gave him the chance to appear on the "Arsenio Hall Show" to show his skills to the world. He was on Snoop's debut album "Doggystyle" for a skit called "Betta Ask Somebody". He made a cameo in the video "Gin & Juice" as one of the kids jumping on the couch. He was set to have a song on the "Murder Was the Case" soundtrack but was denied due to his explicit language. He recorded more songs with the Death Row roster but were unreleased for the same reason. One his songs were released on the Death Row compilation "20 to Life: Vol. 1". In 1998 he & his mother got a call from a representative of Epic Records to fly them out to Atlanta to meet Jermaine Dupri. One night while Jermaine Dupri was perfoming the song "Money Aint a Thang" with Jay-Z, Bow Wow had asked Jermaine could he perform with them. Hesitant at first he Jermaine let Bow Wow come out & perform with them. Akid90s (talk) 07:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a specific change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 16:17, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2014

The horrible infobox grammar, where it says alternate names, should be Mister 106 & Park (http://rapgenius.com/1160725). And filmography section is missing his Scary Movie V appearance (check out the Internet Movie Database). 166.205.55.28 (talk) 21:22, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done for now: Please reword your request in a "please change X to Y" and IMDb is not a reliable source, so you will need to find another source for that. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 15:03, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Excuse me, have you watched the movie? Heres a source, http://www.cinemablend.com/m/Scary-Movie-V-5718.html. Look for Shad Moss aka Bow Wow. Also, in the infobox, change ",Mr.106 & park" to "Mister 106 & Park". The grammar is so off.

Done Sam Sailor ^Sing 07:47, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 June 2014

He changed his name to Shad Moss. Bow Wow is dead 70.172.229.155 (talk) 22:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 22:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Africa AND South Africa

"On October 1, 2013 it was confirmed that Bow Wow was chosen as the current host for BET’s 106 & Park after former host Terrence J & Rocsi retired from the show, it can be seen in over 85 million homes in the U.S., Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, Africa, the Caribbean, Germany and South Africa.[32]" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.53.255 (talk) 03:23, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 April 2016

get rid of the website it doesn't work (bowwowtoday.com) Jimmywellz (talk) 00:46, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

DoneBackendgaming (talk) 04:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

girlfriend list

Add a list of jos girlfriends. To be safe Loverlove1231 (talk) 01:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Height

There's no way Bow Wow is 5'7. Look him up online, he's about 5'3 to 5'4. Celeb Heights has him at 5'4. Here's a picture of him with 5'4 Jermaine Dupri. --Ultraforce47 (talk) 09:12, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Can someone edit the page? Wikipedia says that I'm not an "established registered" user so I can only view the source. --Ultraforce47 (talk) 18:26, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Where in the article does it say he's 5'7"? It used to be in the infobox, but it was removed. Height of celebrities is a big debate unless most sources agree. I did a quick search and the most common answer I found was 5'7". Google itself says 5'7". This one and this one and this one also say 5'7". Others say 5'7" too. A couple say 5'4" or 5'5". But it really doesn't matter because height is sort of meaningless when it comes to an enyclopedia article for a rapper, singer, entertainer, etc. Unless maybe if they're extremely short or tall and it's part of their fame. That's why you shouldn't see it in any performer's article. If his fame was as an athlete, then it would matter. You're not established because your only edits are the three for your above comments. It looks like you've edited before, though, by the way you knew how to add those links. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:ADF3:C706:1C77:4C80 (talk) 10:50, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 29 September 2019

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The result of the move request was: not moved there is a weak consensus against the move, and additionally the requested move was malformed, since the target page exists and was never tagged for this move. No prejudice against another RM with proper tagging. (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 23:53, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

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Bow Wow (rapper) → Bow Wow – This is by far the primary topic. https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-90&pages=Bow_Wow_(rapper) 67.149.246.163 (talk) 21:09, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose, malformed request, target is a dab page plus evidently not a valid primary as there is WP:NOPRIMARY by the second criteria. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:57, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. There's no clear primary topic for this term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:22, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose I see no reason to merge the dab page into a giant hatnote on this page; I don't see why navel gazing at Wikipedia should be the only reason mentioned -- 67.70.33.184 (talk) 08:46, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
• Support The subject is the most popular thing by namesake (look at search statistics), everything else is overshadowed by the subject, so its most convenient – talk – 04:40, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 20 June 2021

Change the number of children Bow Wow has to 2 children. Caetry (talk) 11:10, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2022

Change number of children in Bow Wow (rapper) page from 1 to 2.

“Bow Wow, you ARE the father!

The 34-year-old rapper and actor earlier acknowledged, then denied, having a kid with model Olivia Sky, but court filings show he is, indeed, a father of two children, per Complex’s Joshua Espinoza.” 2601:183:102:770:F8A6:782:6ADA:2D87 (talk) 18:09, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:03, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Controvery tab

There's a whole section on this page for "Controversy", yet it's only for being maskless. Meanwhile, at the Superbowl earlier in 2022 between the Rams and Bengals, there were countless celebrities that showed up maskless. This occured while there was a mask mandate in California going on. These celebrities included Matt Damon, Chris Tucker, Ben Affleck, LeBron James, Charlize Theron and Jennifer Lopez. Along with many more. This information is available online to anyone with a simple Google search. Yet none of their pages have a "Controversy" tab like this page does. None of their pages mention that they were maskless in public as well as Bow Wow. So I'm not sure why this page mentions how he was maskless, yet the pages of other celebrities don't mention it. I think this page should either get rid of the "Controversy" tab, or else add it to the pages of other celebrities who have done the same thing. 2600:6C40:7F3F:B400:A07F:2C75:B49:F327 (talk) 20:13, 3 October 2022 (UTC)