

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.
