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When it comes to prodigies, very few in history can hold a candle to the man born Shad Gregory Moss, who is 27 years old at the time of writing, and is already an astonishing 21 year veteran in the world of hip-hop and pop. His passion for hip-hop began growing at the age of three, and by the time he was six years old he had began rapping, at first for his friends and for himself, but very soon after he started, people around him realized that he was seriously good at it for his age. So good that he hopped on stage at a Snoop Dogg concert in his native Columbus and started rapping to an audience of thousands of rabid hip-hop fans. Against all probability, everyone in attendance was seriously impressed, none more so than Snoop himself, who came up to him after the show to bestow on him the new name Lil' Bow Wow, and ask him if he wanted to come to L.A with him to start a hip-hop career properly.
Moss spent the next five years in California, and wouldn't actually release anything until after he was introduced to a record producer by the name of Jermaine Dupri in 1998, who would go on to produce and executive produce most everything that the young rapper would release afterwards to this very day. His debut album “Beware Of Dog” would come out in 2000 and was an immediate hit, powered it's top twenty hit of a lead single “Bounce With Me”. While the album itself would be certified double platinum just over six months after its release, it would go on to be bettered by his first album after dropping the “Lil'” from his stage name. His third album, “Unleashed”, came in 2003, and its lead single “Let's Get Down”, a collaboration with Cash Money Records head Birdman became his biggest hit to date by a mile, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Moss spent the rest of the decade as one of the most commercially successful rapper and pop stars around, with three top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the form of his Omarion collaboration “Let Me Hold You”, his track with then-girlfriend Ciara “Like You” and 2006's “Shortie Like Mine”. Since then, Moss has made the tricky transition from teen-idol to genuine pop star better than anyone since Justin Timberlake, and with his long awaited seventh album “Underrated” coming soon, he comes highly recommended.
Born on 27 November 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, Twista began rapping at the early age of twelve, and in 1992 he released his first album entitled “Runnin’ Off At Da Mouth” under the name Tung Twista.The next album, “Resurrection” was set to be released in 1994, however, due to marketing issues with his label, Atlantic Records, the album was only released in Chicago. Despite the lack of national attention for “Resurrection,” Twista dropped the “Tung” from his stage name and teamed up with producer The Legendary Traxster and Cwal for “Adrenaline Rush.” The album became his first charting album, peaking at Number 77 on the Billboard Hot 200.
In 1998 Twista teamed up with fellow Chicago rappers to form Speedknot Mobstaz; and together, they released “Mobstability.” That same year Twista formed a new label called Legit Ballin’ and released two compilation albums in 1999 and 2001. In the beginning of 2002, he started to work on his next album entitled “Kamikaze” which was later released in 2004. The album debuted at Number One on the American Billboard 200 album chart. One year later followed with “The Day After” and “Adrenaline 2007.” Unfortunately the letter didn’t do as well compared to his previous albums.
Twista released “The Perfect Storm,” his eighth studio album, in 2010. The album featured guest artists such as Waka Flaka Flame, Raekwon, Diddy and Ray J. Twista started to work on his next studio album in 2013 and in 2014 he released the first single of the album “Dark Horse.”
From his music career to his acting career, Bow Wow is a force to be reckoned with. So it's not surprising that even in Europe he has a superb fan base. I was able to see him live in the Netherlands at Harderwijk Plaza along with a thousand other fans bouncing along to every single beat he was throwing down.
The venue had an amazing glass installation that just made the entire experience a bit more interesting as Bow Wow seemed to be in his own sparkling circle as he ran his rhymes to eager fans. No one was more eager than the ladies in the crowd though. Even when Bow Wow was screaming 'Cash Money' and not talking about being your man for the night, the ladies could not get enough of him.
Tantalizing scream after scream came from hundreds of women in the place adding to the bright lights, special effects and millions of tiny flashes as everyone got their pictures one of their favorite artist. He seemed to have a real genuine love his fans as he put himself alone out there on his glass stage and tried to please each and every one in the audience. Nothing can describe this more as thousands screaming along to "Oh I think they like this..." over and over, chanting it and insuring Bow Wow oh yeah, we like this.
“Damn, baby, I can’t do it that fast, but I know somebody who can - Twista!” On ‘Slow Jamz’, back when he was simply a cocky young college dropout and not the world’s most comically egotistical man, Kanye West immortalised Carl Mitchell - better known as Twista or Tung Twista - ahead of his genuinely incendiary verse. His stage name is derived from his breathtakingly quick flow, which he delivers at borderline-supersonic speed; back in 1992, he entered the Guinness Book of Records for being able to pronounce an utterly mind-blowing five hundred and ninety-eight syllables in just fifty-five seconds. Me neither. So unusual - almost supernatural - is Twista’s ability in that respect that he probably could have chosen to tour with a freak show instead of doing so as a musician; there’s no question that it’s quite the spectacle to witness in the flesh. Twista hasn’t toured the UK since early 2005, around the time he was riding high on the back of the success of his Kamikaze record, which went to number one in the U.S., but with a new album, Dark Horse, slated to drop in August - his first in four years - he might well make a long-overdue return sooner than later.
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For reasons best known to himself, Warren Anderson Mathis chooses to go by the frankly ridiculous alternative moniker of Bubba Sparxxx when he’s recording and performing hip hop, but it doesn’t seem as if the general public have held it against him down the years; over the course of a career that, in earnest, has now spanned more than two decades, Sparxxx has enjoyed top ten success on the U.S. singles charts with ‘Ms. New Booty’, which reached number seven, as well as receiving significant radio play with tracks like ‘Deliverance’ and ‘Ugly’, too. To his credit, he’s put a genuinely fresh spin on the kind of southern hip hop sound that seemed to really take off in the early to mid noughties with the likes of Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire and Mike Jones, and brings an energy to his live shows that is visceral in quality; whilst his lyrics aren’t always entirely serious, there’s an aggression in Sparxxx’s delivery that certainly appears to demand he be taken seriously. His latest album, Made on McCosh Hill Road, dropped just this June, so expect worldwide tour dates to follow sooner than later - Sparxxx is certainly well overdue a return to the UK.
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