Bow Wow says he’s going to do two more albums and then retire from rap. He wants to do films and recently said: “I wanna be the next Will Smith,” during a poolside interview at L.A.’s Le Montrose Suite Hotel.
He went on:
“After the eighth album, I’m done. I already feel it. I love acting. I love my music like I said, but I feel it. After this one, probably one more in me and that’s eight. Like, I’m one [album] behind Nas, and that’s crazy.”
His 7th album “The Pedigree” is due out later this year and he says: “It’s funny because everybody always wants to talk about, you know, ‘Bow Wow doesn’t curse. He’s clean,’ which is true,” he explained. “I think a lot of people that are jumping on Bow Wow now are new people, and if you listen to my first album, I was being bad on my first album. Being that that’s the first album, a lot of people probably didn’t catch on then. But I was already saying words at 13 that I probably shouldn’t be saying. If you go back and listen to my first album, every song is bleeped out. You’ll notice words that are being bleeped out. Now it’s really nothing, and I’m looking at y’all like, ‘What’s the big fuss about?’ Like I said, that’s just me being me. I’m not saying that my album is profane. I still gotta remember about the little kids. “It’s kinda tough to walk it,” he adds sharing his thoughts about walking the line between being a grown-up and still appealing to the younger set: “I still have the younger generation. The younger kids look up to me. Then again, I have that other fanbase who was with me from the jump who are now adults too. And it’s almost like I gotta cater to both, but if I miss one of ‘em, they’ll go find that other person to fill that slot.”
Poor baby. He’s trying to tell us all he’s all grown up and wants to flex on stage and be taken seriously as an actor. He just filmed some scenes for an episode of Entourage where he plays a comedian and has to get naked and lay down with a porn star… should be interesting! He had this to say about his experience which will air in September:
“I know the girls, they’re going to go crazy when they see it,” he said of his appearance on the HBO series. “The ladies are gonna go crazy when they see Bow Wow’s first sex scene. It’s crazy ’cause for me, it was normal. It was normal, but I know when I look back at it, when I see it, I’m gonna be like, ‘Damn! Look at this. This is crazy!’ I stun myself sometimes, I can’t even front. “It was with a porn star. I don’t know her name,” he said of the actress. “She probably watching this like, ‘What?! I did a scene with him, and he doesn’t remember my name?!’ Nah, I don’t remember her name, but she was bad though. She was baaaaad! I was cool. I was comfortable with it. I was definitely comfortable with it. It is what it is — normal stuff that happens.”