Bow Wow goes on Twitter tirade, claims he’ll quit rap, ‘go work at GameStop’
Another day, another Bow Wow Twitter rant.
This time, the once kid rapper/teen heartthrob has vowed to quit his stalled music career, sale all of his possessions and work at GameStop in a now deleted tweet.
The 31-year-old rapper, who experienced success with Atlanta’s So So Def label with songs like “Shortie Like Mine” and “Take Ya Home,” leaned into the latest Twitter rant early Monday morning after someone responded to a tweeted image of Bow Wow and an unnamed woman with the reply “Once a cheater, always cheater.”
Rather than ignore the shady comment, Bow Wow responded, saying he would pay some one to “slap” her. The contentious exchange led the rapper, real name Shade Moss, to declare that he wanted to quit his career for a happier life.
He wrote:
“Ima quit all this (expletive). Down size my home. Sale everything. And go work at gamestop. Id probably be the happiest man in the world. Trade my cars in and buy a PROBE.”
In a second tweet, he admitted he needed to see his therapist, because he was “seeing red” and could possibly “do something stupid to someone today.”
The Ohio rapper shared all these gripes before 7 a.m., but by lunchtime the tweets had vanished. In the last year, Bow Wow has announced he’s had suicidal thoughts and bickered with Twitter users about his Death Row Records affiliation. Two years ago, he also announced his retirement from rap. He just dropped a new single over the weekend.
In this particular Twitter beef, many Twitter fans took Bow Wow’s anguish as their comeuppance. Since he offered his belongings, his tweets led many to jokingly ask for money.
Waiting for my cash app notification from Bow Wow pic.twitter.com/cGphSPVJE3
— S. (@VivaGlamShan) July 30, 2018
Bow Wow gets rightfully and wrongfully—depending on the situation—dragged a lot and his hyperbolic reactive tweet about giving all his money away seems like more about his pain than money.
— 🆃🆁🆄🅳🆈 (@thetrudz) July 30, 2018
At the same time, look, I could use 20K for these medical bills, fam. Link in bio!😭😭
Some fans expressed annoyance with the rapper’s seemingly endless complaints about the rap career that brought him such monetary success.
Is it the social media bullying that gets to Bow Wow? Or the fact that we’ve never allowed his present to overshadow his past? He’s been trying to seperate himself from his old persona of “Lil Bow Wow” for YEARS, through his music & acting but we (black media) wont allow it.
— Kobe Tyrant (@NotoriouslyU) July 30, 2018
Bow Wow always trending and it’s never about his music
— Dom Dom (@yungdomdom) July 30, 2018
Other fans took Monday’s morning diatribe as a cry for help and a sign that social media should give Bow Wow a break.
pray for Bow Wow the same way you prayed for Demi Lovato ..mental illness and depression is real out here
— XO Podcast🎙🎧 (@TheXOPodcast) July 30, 2018
Watching y’all make fun of Bow Wow after he gave us jams like Shorty like Mine and Like You pic.twitter.com/V85GBxm0NG
— C (@cs23back) July 30, 2018
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