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.”
Within four hours of the announcement that his controversial, politically charged ninth album was number one in the country, Nas was standing on a small podium in front of Fox News headquarters in New York City protesting what he views as racist attacks against Black Americans and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
In a brief prepared statement, Nas said this:
“Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try to call it news. This should outrage every American that Fox uses hateful language to talk about the person that may be the first black president.”
Nas gave examples of what he and ColorOfChange see as a long racist smear campaign against the Obama family and they were as follows:
–The onscreen graphic that referred to Michelle Obama as the Senator’s “baby mama”
– Bill O’Reilly sarcastically using the phrase “lynching party” to refer to attacks on the Senator’s wife — Referencing on how Obama and his wife’s fist thump each other by commenting it to be a “terrorist fist jab.”
He stood beside 19 neatly stacked cardboard boxes, with the number 620,127 taped to the side of each one — indicating that over 600,000 signatures gathered by ColorOfChange are demanding that network president Roger Ailes “find a solution to address racial stereotyping and hate-mongering before it hits the airwaves.”
Fox rejected the petitions, but Brave New Films says that Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report will accept them instead.
ColorOfChange contacted Nas after seeing the lyrics to “Sly Fox” posted on the Brave New Films website. “We looked at it and said, ‘This is exactly what we’re talking about,’” ColorOfChange deputy director Andre Banks told Rolling Stone. Just two weeks later, Nas was here speaking to fans, protesters and press spilling out into 6th Avenue, some even holding homemade signs markered with lyrics from the song.
When asked what his response to “Sly Fox,” was Nas said: “Nah, they’re scared of me.”
Here is the new Backstreet Boys photoshoot, and quite frankly I am taken a back! It is absolute cheese, why aren’t the boys showing off their ripped abs, and other fun stuff like that!?
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough and his longtime chica, Leigh Boniello, announced their engagement. They plan to tie the knot later this year.
“She wasn’t expecting it, and I was quite nervous – more nervous about proposing to her in front of 40 family and friends than about performing in front of 40,000 people onstage,” Dorough says of his New Year’s Eve proposal at Boniello’s family home in New Jersey.
The couple, who are both 33, met in 2000, when Boniello who is a film-exec- turned-real-estate-broker, worked as the Backstreet Boys’ Webmaster.
The lovebirds said they were “very careful” to keep their engagement private at first, but with the wedding looming close, felt it was finally time to share their happy news. “We’re very, very excited,” says Dorough.
He carefully planned the proposal to his “soulmate” and checked out “at least 40 or 50 diamonds” before he prepared his “Will you marry me?” speech while they were both on an annual benefit cruise. (The trip was to support the Dorough Lupus Foundation, founded in honor of his late sister.)
“And I asked her mother, father and grandmother for their permission,” he adds.
“He decided to pull a practical joke on me in front of my whole family,” Boniello says of the big day. “He acted like he forgot to give me one present for Christmas – it was in a large box.”
He played off the inside joke that Dorough was “dangling carrots” in front of Boniello whenever they talked about marriage during their 6-year relationship, so when she opened the box, she found three large carrots inside.
“She was laughing and trying to tell everyone the joke and by the time she turned around I was down on one knee with the real carrot,” says Dorough.
Dorough, who is from Orlando, designed the engagement ring – one round, brilliant-cut diamond surrounded by two smaller round diamonds, all set in platinum – with a family friend at Plantation Jewelers in Winter Garden, Fla.
“It meant a lot for my whole family to hear it,” she says. “The room was filled with love, more than I ever expected.”
The wedding guest lists is for around 250 guests while the Backstreet Boys, currently promoting their new single “Inconsolable,” prepare to release their sixth studio album on Oct. 30.
“We’ve invited all the Backstreet Boys, including Kevin [Richardson],” says Dorough, who has no hard feelings about Richardson’s departure from the group last summer. “Actually, Kevin was one of the first people I told about our engagement.”
The stork should be visiting them soon:
“Hopefully I will be the next one to add to the [Backstreet Boy] family,” says Dorough