Giving himself the moniker “Kid Gangsta”, he performed in a handful of local talent competitions while still in grade school. Raised by his mother and stepfather, Rodney Caldwell, with his step-siblings, he developed a profound interest in music, particularly rap at a young age.
Viewer’s Choice), a Billboard Music Award (e.g. Over the years, his music has also garnered him many awards including a BET Award (e.g. Aside from his solo recordings, Bow Wow has also collaborated with several artists throughout his career including Omarion, Jagged Edge, Chris Brown, T-Pain, Johnta Austin, and J-Kwon. To date, his debut work, Beware of Dog remains to be his best-selling album, having sold close to three million copies domestically.
Since then, the rapper has released a total of six studio albums, seven mix tapes and twenty six singlesーmany of which have been recognized by the RIAA. While it wasn’t as successful as his debut effort per se, it still managed to sell over one million copies in the United States. Just a couple of years later, Bow Wow followed up with a second album, Doggy Bag (2002). Snoop Dog gーand put his music career on track for the subsequent years. A major hit, it produced several charting singlesーone of which was Bow Wow (That’s My Name) feat. After making an appearance in a movie soundtrack for Wild Wild West (1999), the aspiring artist signed a recording deal with Columbia Records and promptly released his debut album entitled, Beware of Dog in 2000. At the age of eleven, he met Jermaine Dupri, a record producer who ultimately helped kick start his career. Sometime in 1993, Bow Wow took to the stage at a Los Angeles concert and was noticed by renowned rapper, Snoop Dogーhe later gave him his present stage name, “Lil Bow Wow”. Interested in rap ever since he was three years old, he was rapping under the name “Kid Gangsta” by the time he was six. Shad Gregory Moss, better known as Lil Bow Wow first broke into the hip hop scene with his debut album, Beware of Dog in 2000.
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