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September 14, 2003 - According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bow Wow will make a run for the presidency as the star of the Columbia Pictures/Overbrook Entertainment film 'Mr. Prez.' The Fat Cats directed film (Randy Marshall and Eric Williams) centers on a teenager (Bow Wow) from Philadelphia whose normal life is turned upside down when he becomes president for the day after winning an essay contest. Read more.

September 11, 2003 - Bow Wow looks back on his previous albums almost as if they were crayon drawings he did when he was just a kid. "I love all the work I've done, because I've done it," he told John Soeder of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "But I don't like to go back to my old material. I want to listen to the new stuff. As you progress, you get better... You come up with more creative ideas, a more creative way of thinking." Read more.

September 11, 2003 - Jenee' Osterheldt of the The Kansas City Star caught up with Bow Wow recently for a Q&A and asked the rapper how hard it was to put out 'Unleashed' without the help of his former mentor Jermaine Dupri. "It was most definitely a transition," he said. "Some people are just not meant to be, but it's all good. I am just learning and loving it. I am in charge, doing what I'm doing." Asked who he'd like to work with in the future, Bow Wow responded, "50 Cent, Snoop and DMX." Read more.

September 7, 2003 - Now Toronto reports Bow Wow in-store signing appearance downtown at the HMV Superstore last month drew an enormous crowd of hyperventilating girls eager for one of the 250 wristbands that would permit a close encounter with rapper. The miniature MC was affable and kind to his fans, although some of them weren't wholly impressed. One was overheard telling her friends, "I always thought he was small before – but he is really tiny!" After over an hour of frenetic meeting and greeting, Bow Wow sped off in an SUV, almost running over a number of the wildly screaming youngsters desperate to photograph him.

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