Bowing Out So Early or Thank You Bow Wow!

19 year old rapper (lil)Bow Wow announced his early retirement on monday. He decided he had enough, the rap game must be too rough for the youngster to handle or is there something else. He plans to release one album before he calls it quits.

"[If so] we're going to go out with a bang," the former Lil' rapper said. "It's definitely going to be the biggest album that I've ever done."

Bow Wow is early in the recording of the as-yet-untitled album, but already has his first single ready.

"It features Chris Brown and it's called 'Shorty Like Mine,' so that definitely could be the biggest record of my career," he said.