Lil Bow Wow aka Shad Moss has adjusted nicely to the role of fatherhood.

Bow Wow?s ex-girlfriend Joie Chavis gave birth to his baby girl Shai last year and the proud papa, who fully intends to spoil his daughter, Shai rotten, recently revealed that fatherhood has definitely changed him for the better.

?It just really made me go harder,? says Moss,

?It just made me understand life a little bit more. One thing that it definitely taught me was some patience, and I?m definitely still working on that. She?s the best thing to happen to me. A woman will tell you, the dude gon? always be the same, it?s the woman that got to go through that [change].

For me, I feel the same, no different than who I was three, four years ago.?

A whole lot has changed in those 3/4 years too.?Bow was feared to be suicidal after tweeting about dying but he soon said that his daughter Shai gave him a reason to live.

And while he didn’t originally put his name on Shai’s birth certificate, he has made it known that he fully intends to be the father that he never had.

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Gone are the days Bow Wow walked around town flashing hundred dollar bills on the street. He’s?really matured and even explains that he’s nervous about his daughter ever dating a guy like him…

It?s just my job to make sure I give her the game that she needs to survive. Make sure that I tell her to watch out for guys like I was when I was 17 and 18, and wild.

It?s gonna be hard for a little guy to come around because I got all the game, daddy got it all! I?m just gon? put it all in her hands so she can see it and she gon? know.

She me all over again, she gon? have everything I got, plus more. (source)

It’s great that Bow Wow has put fatherhood as a priority. More men should think like him.

Is it me or is it kinda weird seeing Lil Bow Wow as a daddy?

Feel free to share your thoughts on his statements…

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