Bow Wow: Look Past The Name

Yeah I know what you're thinking.....but bear with me.

I, like many, have written this guy off for many years because..well..he has not done anything worth talking about for a while. All I remember is a little boy with cornrows rapping to little girls. Though he is the butt of many jokes now, not many people were selling records like this guy did at that time. Like it or not he deserves respect for that. But success is sometimes a double-edge sword. He did it so well as a little kid, that no one really sees him as a credible MC-including himself at times- Exhibit A. Now he's pigeon-holed himself. He even retired from the game once upon a time (no one noticed). With a couple of albums tanking the last couple of years who would disagree?

Which brings me to now....

Despite his troubles with his place in hip hop, he still believes that we haven't see the real him. He's been really consistent with that message for many years now. I think that he is still trying to find who he is and that my friends is hip hop- the ability to grow and reinvent oneself.  Each of us, including rappers, try to find a piece of ourselves in the music. That's why we stay up to ridiculous hours on the Internet listening to new songs or why we pull Cd's out of our collections and listen to them again. We are searching for that feeling we got the first time. I think Bow Wow is doing that as well. He's still hungry despite the skeptics and critics. That's why he's got the deal with Cash Money.

Maybe he deserves a second chance to prove himself worthy of the respect of his peers. Look how many chances we give Kanye after he makes a total ass of himself (making dope music does help) I'm not saying that I will buy a CD but I am curious  to see if he can make a lane for himself on such a crowded roster.

Valid point? Waste of time? Floor is yours.