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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regulaur audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Contains three untitled hidden tracks following "I'm Back". Initial pressings of UNLEASHED include a bonus track, entitled "I'm Back." Personnel: Bow Wow, Baby (rap vocals); Jagged Edge, Mario, Amerie (vocals); Bink! (various instruments, programming); Charles Pettaway (guitar). Producers include: The Neptunes, Swizz Beatz, Jazze Pha, Bink!, Jonathan Smith. Japanese edition includes a bonus track. As is the bar (or bat) mitzvah in the Jewish faith, so is the shedding of the Lil' in hip-hop culture, and so it is Lil' Bow Wow's time to ascend to manhood. The boy born Shad Moss in 1987 had a relatively good run of it in childhood, flowing flawlessly on stage with Snoop Dogg at age 6 (hence the name), and garnering two platinum records, numerous top 40 hits, and number one rap singles like "Bounce With Me." However, at 16, he now simply goes by Bow Wow and with the aptly named UNLEASHED, his third offering, he has quite the coming-out party. Bow Wow knows how to get a party started right with the grungy holla'in banger "Get It Poppin'" and the charged swingin' single "Let's Get Down." "Eighteen" courageously opens with a skit where the teenaged rapper gets id'ed and bounced at a club before he launches into an longingly aching anthem (even bemoaning to a potential girl how he can't get her into the clubs). Crooners Jagged Edge drop by as Bow Wow displays a most genuine sensitive side, like a slightly more vulnerable LL Cool J, on "My Baby." Overall, UNLEASHED stands a compelling chronicle of a prodigy MC coming of age.
