Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Intro
2. Future, The - (featuring R.O.C.)
3. Bounce With Me - (featuring Xscape)
4. Puppy Love - (featuring Jagged Edge)
5. You Know Me - (featuring Jermaine Dupri/Da Brat)
6. Dog in Me, The
7. Bow Wow (That's My Name) - (featuring Snoop Dogg)
8. This Playboy - (featuring Jermaine Dupri/R.O.C./Big Duke)
9. Ghetto Girls
10. You Already Know
11. Bounce With Me - (extended Lp mix, featuring Xscape)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Big Duke, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Jermaine Dupri, R.O.C., Snoop Dogg, Xscape | | Producer: | Jermaine Dupri | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Lil Bow Wow, Jeramine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, Xscape, R.O.C., Big Duke, Da Brat, Jagged Edge.
Recorded at Southside Studio, Atlanta, Georgia.
This Limited Edition of BEWARE OF DOG comes in a longbox with a Lil Bow Wow bandanna included.
Personnel includes: Lil Bow Wow, Jeramine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, Xscape, R.O.C., Big Duke, Da Brat, Jagged Edge.
Recorded at Southside Studio, Atlanta, Georgia.
It's hard to reconcile hip-hop with cuteness, but that's one of the operative concepts at work on the debut recording by adolescent rapper Lil Bow Wow, who lets us know on the opening cut "The Future" that he was "born in 1987." The 13-year-old rapper, whose voice had yet to change during the recording of BEWARE THE DOG, emulates the street-centered hard line of his hip-hop predecessors, but his producers are too responsible to let the lad utter profanity or espouse violent ideas.
Instead, the subject matter is mostly innocent self-aggrandizement that almost harks back to '80s old school sounds. The beats behind Lil Bow Wow are never less than contemporary-sounding, though, and everyone from Snoop Dogg to R&B artists Xscape and Jagged Edge join in, the latter two adding pop hooks. BEWARE OF DOG works as a hip-hop album both for kids and for adults with a penchant for lines like "I might look cute, but it's the dog in me."
It's hard to reconcile hip-hop with cuteness, but that's one of the operative concepts at work on the debut recording by adolescent rapper Lil Bow Wow, who lets us know on the opening cut the future that he was "born in 1987." The 13-year-old rapper, whose voice had yet to change during the recording of BEWARE THE DOG, emulates the street-centered hard line of his hip-hop predecessors, but his producers are too responsible to let the lad utter profanity or espouse violent ideas. Instead, the subject matter is mostly innocent self-aggrandizement that almost harks back to '80s old school sounds. The beats behind Lil Bow Wow are never less than contemporary-sounding, though, and everyone from Snoop Dogg to R&B artists Xscape and Jagged Edge join in, the latter two adding pop hooks. BEWARE OF DOG works both as a hip-hop album for kids or for adults with a penchant for lines like "I might look cute, but it's the dog in me."
| | Editorial reviews | 7 out of 10 - ...Everything here is short, sharp and efficient....Rarely has a kid in pop produced something they'll still be proud of when they're aged 40....He's so savvy it makes you fear for his soul...
NME (04/07/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Bow Wow is skillfully presented as a coy but tough object of desire on the verge of manhood....the kid is quite a rapper....and this packs a real pop punch.
Q (05/01/2001)
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