Three years after he first talked about retirement from hip-hop, Rapper Bow Wow is again hanging up the mic.
The announcement comes less than one month after the release of his New Jack City II album, which has barely sold 30,000 units since it’s late March release and debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard Album charts.
“This is my last album because for me, there’s no more that needs to be done on the music side, I’ve done everything,” Bow told blog realtalkny.com. “And the scary thing is I’m 22 years old and I’m young. I’m still a baby, so it’s kinda like on the music side, I’ve been doing it since five. That’s 17 years of non-stop music, music, music.”
There’s nothing more to accomplish that I haven’t seen yet…I feel like now it’s time to endure a new challenge…Close the chapter on the Bow Wow legacy…As far as albums, I’m good. Seven albums at 22, that’s crazy.”
Bow Wow has been making similar announcements since about 2006, when he was 19.
In 2006, the rapper said that he’d like to go out in “with a bang” as his fifth album emerged. In He told People Magazine in 2008, “After the eighth album, I’m done. [I have] probably one more in me and that’s eight. Like, I’m one [album] behind Nas, and that’s crazy. I wanna be the next Will Smith.”
Bow Wow says he would like to segue his career into movies and other acting roles. Last year, he appeared in “Entourage,” but also movies such as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Roll Bounce (2005) and Johnson Family Vacation.
Information from Allhiphop.com contributed to this report.
