Bow Wow Admits To Having Ghostwriters

Ask the average hip hop fan and Bow Wow doesn't register on their proverbial "top five" list. Whether it be the child star stigma or rumors of having ghostwriters, hip-hop's lil'est one has had a hard time making it as an legitimate artist and recently spoke to HipHopDX on what remains unspoken between most rappers.

It has been long rumored that T.I. has been a ghostwriter for Bow Wow. During the DX interview, Bow not only confirmed the reports, but dished on just how much Tip has written for him.

"Even the best have had stuff written for them. [And] Tip only worked with me one time, and that was for the Unleashed album," Bow said. "And I actually wrote, I would say, 85 percent of that album. Tip probably wrote maybe like one [full] song, [and] he might have did like a verse [for a few songs] -- If it was a three-verse song, I might have did two verses [and] he might have wrote one. So it's not like he [was] in there just writing the whole album. [But] it's like, I [had] to learn eventually. And I [had] been writing for so long, it was that Jermaine just kept me sheltered and he didn't want me to go in, because he felt that it wasn't appropriate for my age."

Despite receiving help from "the king of the south," Bow maintains that he is still a dope rapper.

"I can easily get top four," he continued. "Because I feel like there are some artists out here who can't rap better than me. That's just what I feel. And I know that's the truth."

Bow also spoke on his new album, New Jack City Pt. II, and why he felt the name was appropriate.

"So So Def was our Carter," Bow Wow explained to DX. "That's how me and Jermaine got money. And it enabled us to feed our siblings, feed homeboys, buy homeboys cars, which was the same thing in New Jack [City]. But, after all the fun and splurging and money and getting women, when the business comes into play it kinda eliminates all the fun. See, then it gets serious. That's basically what happened in the movie... They was arguing about the girls, and then [Nino] end up killing his man off. And we [call the album] Pt. II, because if that never woulda happened they woulda still been here right now gettin' money - if they never had got caught, and they still woulda been doing they business. We taking off from where they would have continued."

New Jack City Pt. II is due in stores on March 31.

- By Erin T. McMillon