Bow Wow insists there was never any real tension between him and Romeo Miller, even though fans often framed them as rivals during their child rap days.
The Ohio rapper appeared on the Monday (February 2) episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast, where he explained that a lyric from his 2005 track “Fresh Azimiz” was never meant as a shot at Romeo or his father, Master P. On the song’s first verse, Bow Wow raps, “Eighteen, n***a makin more than your dad,” a line that actually references LL Cool J’s 1987 track “The Do Wop.”
“What’s crazy is I never beefed with Rome,” Bow Wow said around the 21-minute mark of the interview. “The fans made it a thing because I said the line in ‘Fresh Azimiz,’ ‘Eighteen n***a making more money to your dad.’ In reality, people don’t know that’s not even my bar.”
Bow added that he simply thought it was a “dope line.” “That’s how I felt. I felt like all the young cats, you know, all their girls liked me, and it was just a clean flex to throw back at their little boyfriends — like, I’m eighteen making more than your daddy. But people took it as, ‘Oh, he has to be talking about him.’”
Bow also shut down the idea that the verse was directed at the No Limit Records founder, noting he had been a fan of Master P since he was a kid.
“Like I Got the Hook Up, everything that he ever did, bro. I’m a real hip-hop baby,” he continued. “I respect P. I love P. I love everything he did for the culture. First n***a I know who really made a 100 Ms off this shit. I respect that. Out the trunk, too. That’s tough.”
The rapper went on to recall Master P’s kid group Lil Soldiers and the No Limit clothing line before giving Romeo his flowers as well. “I never beefed with Rome. Shoutout to Rome. That’s my guy. Cool dude,” he said.
Back in the early 2000s, Bow Wow and Romeo were both child stars, each releasing multiple albums while also building successful acting careers. Years later, in 2018, Romeo appeared on MTV’s TRL and echoed the same sentiment, denying any real feud between them and saying he was a fan of Bow Wow, who was older than him.
