Bow Wow Resurrects ‘mr. 106 & Park’ As He’s Selected As Host Of The House Of Bet For 2023 Awards

Bow Wow Resurrects ‘mr. 106 & Park’ As He’s Selected As Host Of The House Of Bet For 2023 Awards

Bow Wow has successfully defended his prized Mr. 106 & Park title after being selected as the House of BET’s host for the forthcoming BET Awards.

The rapper-turned-actor shared the good news with his followers on Twitter on Friday, June 16.

It’s official, yo! In honor of the BET Awards 2023, @bet is bringing the House of BET to LA, and you already know to whom they gave the keys—ME, according to Bow Wow.

“I’ll be your weekend’s host in official capacity! 106&Park Mr. Rap City Karaoke, Rip the Runway, 106&Park Live, as well as other hot parties, are all returning. Pull up on me and click the RSVP link.

To RSVP for the events, which will take place from Thursday, June 22 to Sunday, June 25, fans may now visit the BET website.

Beginning in October 2012 and continuing to the termination of the program in November 2014, Bow Wow was one of the four new hosts of 106 & Park. The artist behind “Shortie Like Mine” held the record for the most retired music videos on 106 & Park before taking on the role of host.

In December 2022, Jermaine Dupri and Bow Wow got into a verbal altercation over JD’s assertion that he founded 106 & Park as a platform for his protégé, So So Def, to compete with MTV’s TRL.

Jermaine Dupri said in a previous interview with The Goats And Underdogs podcast that he had pitched the concept of a youth-targeted video countdown show to Stephen G. Hill, then-President of Programming at BET. The Atlanta businessman believed that TRL did not support Black performers as much as some of their pop counterparts, like Bow Wow.

I founded 106 & Park, Jermaine Dupri claimed. “I produced the program for Bow.” Wow. TRL was on MTV, which I was watching. And they catered to Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and anything else white that was coming out that was Pop. They were enabling the children to yell and shout at them. ‘Yo, we don’t have anything for Black people like that,’ I said. Why don’t the Black kids who love music get a show like that, for instance?

“So I called Stephen Hill and I said, ‘Yo, I got an artist, we need to make a show just like TRL.'” he added. Then he said, “Who is the artist?” I then gave a Bow Wow. Everyone objects to what I’m saying. Being a rapper, they weren’t going to put Bow Wow on TRL in that manner. He was a Black, young boy who was rapping. However, he was also 12 years old. Nobody making this kind of chaos on TV at the age of 12 was everywhere.

When the video started going viral at that time, Bow Wow responded on Twitter to JD’s genesis narrative for 106 & Park.

The former co-host of 106&Park wrote, “JD ain’t create 106&Park stop the cap.” “That show was conceived by Stephen Hill, Rick Grimes, and the wonderful crew at the BET OFFICE. I merely appropriated their work and claimed it as mine. I am Mr. 106, so I would know! Never would I interfere with someone else’s creativity.

A.J. Calloway and Marie “Free” Wright served as the show’s first hosts. 106 & Park debuted on BET on September 11, 2000, two weeks before Bow Wow’s debut album Beware The Dog was made available to the public. The tween musician performed “Bounce With Me,” the album’s lead track, on TRL earlier that summer alongside Jermaine Dupri.

Bow Wow would go on to make at least one more TRL performance in favor of his platinum-selling single “Shortie Like Mine” from 2006, which featured Chris Brown and Johnta Austin.

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