Bow Wow never had smoke with Romeo despite the two being pitted against each other as child rappers.
The Ohio native appeared on the Monday (February 2) episode of The Bootleg Kev Podcast, where he clarified that a line from his 2005 single “Fresh Azimiz” wasn’t a diss towards Romeo or his father, Master P. In the first verse, Bow Wow raps “Eighteen, n***a makin more than your dad,” which pulls from LL Cool J’s 1987 song “The Do Wop.”
“What's crazy is I never beefed with Rome,” Bow Wow said around the 21-minute mark of the video below. “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 thought it was a “dope line.” “That's how I felt. I feel like all the young cats, you know, all they girls like me and that was just a proper flex
to pop it back on they on their little boyfriends. I’m eighteen making more than your daddy. But the people took that like, ‘Oh, he got to be talking about him.’”
Bow denied that he aimed the verse at the No Limit Records founder, whom he was a fan of since childhood.
“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 also remembered Master P’s kid group Lil Soldiers and the No Limit clothing brand before also giving props to Romeo. “I never beefed with Rome. Shoutout to Rome. That’s my guy. Cool dude,” he concluded.
In the early 2000s, Bow Wow and Romeo were both child stars with multiple albums and flourishing acting careers. In 2018, Romeo appeared on MTV’s TRL and also denied there was a legitimate beef between them and said he was a fan of Bow Wow, who was older than him.