Confusingly, America Is Suddenly Interested In Lil Romeo Again
Though his main contributions to popular culture remain his verse on the 504 Boyz’s “Tight Whips” and being the spawn of Congressional finger-pointer Master P, Lil Romeo is somehow all over the news again, blowing up the aggregators and RSS feeds. How to explain this? Perhaps it is his spam-like struggle to gain six more inches?
“Basketball has run in the family,” Lindsay said, noting the rapper’s father, hip-hop mogul Master P, had tryouts with two NBA teams in the 1990s.
“In the future, I want to be an NBA player. That’s my goal,” Lil’ Romeo told The Associated Press in a 2003 interview.
At the time he was 14 and just 5-foot-6. He acknowledged then that his goal might go unrealized if he didn’t add another 12 inches of height.
He’s 17 now and 6-1, a little more than halfway toward that goal.
No, seriously, what is up with this uptick of interest in Lil Romeo? Did you know he’s No. 2 on Google Trends right now? Ahead of “when did the first Frankenstein movie come out?” and “Bob Crane.” And he was a Nazi resistance fighter who made his own porno.