Nick Cannon Fires Back at Bow Wow Jibe  6/19/06

Rapper/actor Nick Cannon has launched a subtle war of words with chart rival Bow Wow, claiming the teenager is too harmless to be "a thug". Cannon is firing off after Bow Wow, real name Shad Anthony Moss, criticized his peer for being too clean-cut - like Will Smith. 

Cannon laughs, "If you check Will's album sales to Bow Wow's album sales, I'm gonna rap like Will all day long. "I'm not gonna talk about how hard I am, even though I grew up in some of the worst situations out there. "There's only so long you can rap about how hard you are. You've been in the entertainment industry since you were eight years-old, it's kind of hard to be a thug."