There are two artists with the name Bow Wow: (1) American rapper and (2) Japanese hard rock band.

(1) Bow Wow (formerly Lil' Bow Wow, born Shad Gregory Moss on March 9, 1987 in Columbus, Ohio), is an American rapper. Releasing his first album, Beware of Dog, at the age of thirteen, Bow Wow quickly became a successful recording artist, under the mentorship of record producer Jermaine Dupri, eventually breaking out on his own by 2003 and continuing his success.


(2) This band (led by Kyoji Yamamoto) is considered to be at first a Japanese heavy metal band, but really the group's style is hard/speed rock. In 1984 from the ashes of Bow Wow Kyoji formed Vow Wow. When they changed name to VW, they also changed style to more melodic and commercial (and less 'agressive'). We should treat VW and BW as two different (but connected) bands. Now they are back to the Bow Wow name, returned to the old line-up and old style. Mitsuhiro Saito it's a second Bow Wow's guitarist (he haven't played in VW).