Bow Wow has shared his thoughts about the current state of the music industry and how those involved need to take more responsibility about what they put out into the world.
On Monday (October 16), the former So So Def star posted a series of tweets in which he addressed the dominant subject matter in mainstream music and how he believes it’s detrimental to Hip Hop.
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“Can we please bring back artist development at these labels,” he wrote. “Do these labels even care about these artist? Yall be throwing them on platforms knowing they not ready. A boxer is trained and taught before battle. We just keep throwing these subpar ass artist out here with no proper teaching.
“Its too many real ones out here on the come up like symba west side boogie i can name so many more lady london, lola like new artist that GOT IT! who deserve the push… but instead … man im done even speaking on it haha shit be getting me hot.”
He added: “Stop pushing that bs on us! The fans are waking up and hip hop is about to change for the better. Stay in the house if you playing and move over and let the real ones play.”
In the last of three bulky tweets, he took aim at how some of the most commercially successful rappers can barely present themselves in a respectable manner.
“They cant talk,” the 36-year-old wrote. “I don’t understand wtf they saying. Be dry as hell in interviews. Yall know i take the stage serious! I dont even wanna get on they stage presence. Rapping over vocals shit is sloppy out here man. We gotta clean this shit up. Get better or get tf out the way.”
Earlier this year, Bow Wow discussed why Hip Hop hadn’t landed a No. 1 album or single halfway into 2023 (this has since changed) and he attributed it to a decline in quality.
In late June, the 2023 BET Awards in Los Angeles hosted some of the culture’s biggest names at the Microsoft Theatre. During the event, radio host and podcaster Bryhana Monegain asked the “Like You” hitmaker about Hip Hop’s absence on the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100 charts, and his response caught many off guard.
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“’Cause n-ggas puttin’ out trash-ass music,” he said. “Everything sound alike, everything repetitive, same tempo … everybody could do that, you know what I’m saying?”
He continued: “You really gotta have talent, you really gotta go. I think people are startin’ to get tired of it now, that’s why you don’t see nothin’ chartin.’”
