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December 29, 2003 - Matthew Lurie of the Chicago Tribune was on hand December 19th at the United Center for the Big Jam IV, hosted by WGCI-FM 107.5 which featured a performance by Bow Wow. Lurie says of the teen rapper, "Boyfriends and fathers, seemingly the entire male part of the audience, shook its head in acknowledgement that Bow Wow's growth into a deeper voice and adolescent physique doesn't seem to have diminished his appeal. There may not be much of a distinctive musical character at work, as he openly aped Jay-Z, but that also may not matter: When he brought a female audience member onstage and serenaded her, he had an arena full of women in the palm of his hand." Read more.

December 29, 2003 - Bow Wow has been busy both taking on film roles and touring behind his latest CD, 'Unleashed,' which he described to Ramiro Burr of the San Antonio Express-News as "the new, more mature me." The teen rapper says, "'Unleashed' is one of the best albums I have ever put out. But in 2004 I have another album that will be better than all of them. It will knock them all dead." Read more.

December 29, 2003 - Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC will feature Bow Wow and begins at 11:35 PM.

December 3, 2003 - Jamie Foster Brown of Sister2Sister magazine spoke with Bow Wow and asked the young rapper about his policy of not swearing on his records. "Everybody's been asking me about the profanity thing now," he said. "There was one song that we had where I was gonna say the 'a' word, but there are a lot of sensitive people, so we didn't exactly know how some people would take it. So we just cut the whole thing out." Read more.

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