Former baby star and rapper Shad “Bow Wow” Moss has revealed that in his late teenagers, he struggled with habit to lean, which is a combination of codeine and promethazine.
He disclosed throughout a latest interview with “The Artwork of Dialogue” that his publicist lied to the press and followers on the time, attributing a drug-related hospitalization to dehydration.
In accordance with the So So Def artist-turned-actor, his habit severely affected his habits, resulting in erratic actions and inflicting him to overlook a number of tour dates alongside Chris Brown. The 36-year-old additional acknowledged that his love for lean impacted how he promoted the “Face Off” album, a joint mission he did with former B2K star Omarion.
“I used to be sipping a lot syrup, bruh. I mentioned this too, like proper after proper after Mac Miller had died. I spoke on that,” he mentioned to host Mighty Bolton.
In 2018, after Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller died from an overdose, Bow Wow took to the then-Twitter platform and wrote, “To the youth- Cease with these dumb ass medicine. I’m going to let one thing out. When me and Omarion labored on ‘Face Off’ album. I used to be excessive off lean on a regular basis! When y’all noticed me on BET going off on [Touré] I used to be excessive off lean. My perspective every part modified.”
To the youth- Cease with these dumb ass medicine. Im going to let one thing out. When me and omarion labored on FACE OFF album. I used to be excessive off lean on a regular basis! When yall noticed me on BET going off on torae i used to be excessive off lean. My perspective every part modified. My followers began to…
— Bow Wow (@smoss) September 10, 2018
Throughout a 2007 interview section for BET with Bow Wow and Omarion, Touré requested Omarion, “Do you’re taking strikes from folks like Chris Brown?” Earlier than he might reply, Bow angrily exclaimed, “Don’t ask no different disrespectful, stupid-ass questions. That’s actual speak,” earlier than strolling out. “I’m Mr. 106 & Park.”
From there, Bow Wow known as his safety and some others from his entourage to verify Touré for his disrespectful questions.
“I used to be consuming s—t like loopy,” he mentioned in his latest interview. “If you happen to return and watch, it’s known as ‘The Street to Platinum’ documentary collection on BET, you’ll discover so many white Styrofoam cups, and also you’ll see so many Hawaiian punch bottles within the studio. I used to be dropping my thoughts. That lean s—t had me f—ked up.”
Touré later revealed that it was a “pretend interview,” and the way he pretended to not know Bow Wow and Omarion as a “prank.”
The “Bounce With Me” hitmaker mentioned at a sure level in his habit he was at all times irritated and snapping at folks.
He additionally shared that it was a social exercise, naming one other rapper on the time, Lil Wayne, as somebody who would additionally drink with him after they frolicked.
Years away from drug abuse, Bow Wow recalled the nice lengths that folks took in an try to guard his teen-friendly model, noting an incident that occurred whereas he was on the highway.
“I’ll always remember me and Chris was we had been on our tour,” the artist mentioned. “I used to be co-headlining with Brown and the opening evening was a Cincinnati. Once I acquired off the stage I collapsed and … I went straight to Cincinnati College Hospital.”
The Billboard Music Award winner, who’s referring to a tour date in December 2007, mentioned that he was experiencing abdomen pains that had been so extreme that he needed to go house to Atlanta and he missed dates in Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit, three main markets for his fan base.
“I’m sitting within the hospital not figuring out what’s occurring and after I get again house this will get worse,” he explains, detailing he skilled signs similar to “nausea,” “tremors,” and profuse sweating. “I didn’t know that I used to be having withdrawals that’s how a lot lean we was consuming.”
He credit his publicist on the time, the late Patti Webster, who based W&W Public Relations, for intervening and managing the general public notion of his substance abuse and hospitalization earlier than gossip web sites might sensationalize the story.
“She ended up placing out a press launch and you recognize I used to be house in Atlanta, I noticed the information,” Bow Wow remembered.
“So you recognize, when you have a look at that article up, it mentioned dehydration. I used to be cap, you recognize. That’s simply good PR. We didn’t need to let the world know that 18/19-year-old boy was you recognize heavy on the drink,” he added.
A number of retailers like Rap-Up and HipHopDX all coated the story and reported his reps’ assertion that he was hospitalized for dehydration. He would later refute the dehydration story and mentioned to MTV Information that he was within the hospital as a result of he was appearing like a rock star and “threw a slot in his dressing room, severely chopping himself within the course of.”
Bow Wow says that he not does lean and solely sticks to tequila and weed if and when he needs to occasion.
