Beware of Dog by Bow Wow

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 latt...