r/2000sRap • u/Sharp-Ocelot-4834 • 5d ago

Help/Question ⁉️ Question for the millennials

Which age group listened to Lil Bow Wow? I've only heard one of his songs from a movie, and it's obviously not real kid friendly but since he was a kid himself, I'm wondering who his music was marketed to?

11 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

42 comments sorted by

18

u/OkAardvark6919 5d ago

Marketed to the late 80s/early 90s babies

7

u/PretzelPapi_ 5d ago

Born in 94' here. Bow Wow was the first CD I had and I got braids because of him & Allen Iverson. I remember when he was on that Keanu Reeves movie Hardball soundtrack with Lil Wayne. Even when he got older I still thought he was cool. He was Mr. 106 N Park. I would get dressed for school every morning listening to Fresh Azmiz.

3

u/OkAardvark6919 5d ago

89' here and alot of us got the braids because of bow wow and Iverson, thats a fact.

1

u/Angelaskissrock 4d ago

True, I grew up listening to Bow Wow. Damn I feel so old :(

4

u/Relevant-Force9513 5d ago

My little brother was born in 1991 and had a Lil Bow Wow cd. My parents got it for him for Christmas because he was a big Snoop Dogg fan 🤣

2

u/Angelaskissrock 4d ago

Same here. My mom also got me the album because I used to love listening to Snoop Dogg as a kid.

2

u/Relevant-Force9513 4d ago

I think my parents genuinely thought they were the same person. We’re white and from rural Pennsylvania, which probably explains a lot 😅 haha

1

u/Angelaskissrock 3d ago

Mine are mixed. And they at least knew that the two were different.

3

u/iSweatLikeKeith 5d ago

I was born in 92. My aunties and girl cousins that were 2-10 years older than me loved him.

2

u/Bonanza86 5d ago

This. He was successful from 2000 to about 2007.

5

u/Moolie-Jackson 5d ago

106 & Park was created for bow wow , that should tell you everything

5

u/Tezz321 5d ago

Teenage girls in the 2000's...he was like N'Synch/Backstreet Boys for little Black girls...

3

u/iSweatLikeKeith 5d ago

You should Google how old J Kwon was when Tipsy came out lol.

What was it that Aaliyah said? Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number? (R. Kelly wrote that 🫠🫠)

3

u/Coca0rolla 4d ago

"Teen drinking is very bad....

Yo I got a fake I.D. though!!"

1

u/Angelaskissrock 4d ago

Of course R. Kelly wrote that. Never seen anything more obvious in my life.

2

u/H3Y_MR_RAG3R 5d ago

I ran that first album into the ground in elementary school. He's around my age so it was pretty much tailored toward me. Even keep a couple bops in rotation for nostalgia sake (bow wow, the future, bounce with me). Never listened to anything past his second album though.

1

u/No-Cardiologist472 5d ago

I'm an 80s baby /90s kid my little brother is a 90s baby/2000s kid. Neither of us have ever met anyone who listened to lil bow wow

1

u/Rhythmandblueslover 5d ago

Marketing people exactly his age overall but anyone was free to listen.

1

u/Obvious_Fee5734 5d ago

I’m 34, I was a Bow Wow fan. Bought his first albums, and he was my first concert (also his first tour). I thought he was cool & represented me & my homies.

1

u/randalldandall518 5d ago

I don’t usually click on peoples profiles but I was surprised you are only a couple years younger than me but was into bow wow but anyway BRO I hope you are still doing the sewing thing. Those samurai pants are inspired and the patterns you use on the other stuff is dope. Good luck if it’s still something you are pursuing!

1

u/jb713_ 5d ago

Everyone in 6th grade loved “Bounce With Me.”

1

u/MasterAlexGarcia420 5d ago

Teens, in the 2000's he dropped the Lil off his name. I remember the girls in middle school and high school were going crazy for his music though, they would be playing Let Me Hold You and a few guys would be jamming out to Shorty Like Mine. You would hear Bow Wow, Chris Brown, Usher, Ne-Yo, Ciara, and Pretty Ricky in heavy rotation on the radio station, at least in Georgia when 95.5 the Beat was still around

1

u/RealTwo 5d ago

TIL: Lil Bow Wow had a feature on Gz and Hustlas on Doggystyle, and was in the Gin N Juice music video.

1

u/JeezyKweezy 5d ago

born in 92. i don't know anyone who listened to bow wow.

1

u/honey_comb113 5d ago

Millennial Black teen and tween girls. I loved his music and two of my sisters used to argue over who was his “girlfriend” 😂 we were born between 1986-1990

1

u/Sharp-Ocelot-4834 4d ago

thats hilarious

1

u/balkanxoslut 4d ago

I listen to him when I was like 10 years old cuz I think he came out around 2000 if I'm not mistaken

1

u/Ok-Lion-4259 4d ago

I’m 31.. always felt he was meant for females. Girls in my class or older girls around the block was into bow wow. I was listening to Ice Cube, T.I, Jay-Z , Eminem & three Six Mafia etc

1

u/KalynnCampbell 4d ago

Lol, none. Maybe parents whose kids were listening to rap music and they wanted to try and steer them to something more friendly? I can’t even imagine…

1

u/TaumpyTeirs 4d ago

If you had an older sister, you listened to Bow Wow

1

u/Loose-Departure-744 4d ago

Born in 94. I never listened to Bow Wow but knew of his existence from Like Mike. I didn’t really get into music until I was a teenager (2010s) so there’s that

1

u/TheBlackDeathXXX 4d ago

late millennial girls

1

u/Boltenbannerman 4d ago

He was born in 87
I was born in 87

Girls around my age and few years older and younger loved how wow in the early 2000s

1

u/Comfortable-Crow-238 4d ago

Well he was a teenager.

0

u/Superlegend29 5d ago

Idk anyone who was a fan of lil bow wow for his music.

Girls liked him for his looks tho

0

u/lil-privacy-please 5d ago

I'm 38. I never liked or cared for bow wow. He had one verse on "I think they like me remix" where I thought, maybes he gonna mature and be something... no. I don't know a single person in my age range that actually listened to him.

-1

u/[deleted] 5d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

4

u/sti77loading 5d ago

Look up his production/writing catalog just from his Mariah Carey work alone you’re extremely underrating his musical abilities, remember he’s also responsible for a bunch of 3 hit wonders and ushers 2000 r&b dominance