Romeo Miller is only 26-years-old, but he has seen his fair share of drama in the music industry.

Romeo, aka Lil Romeo, began his rap career as a youngin’ and was known to have beef with kiddie rap’s reigning king at the time, Lil Bow Wow. But recently, Romeo took to Instagram to defend his former rival after social media slandered Bow Wow for saying he plans to retire from rap:

Romeo basically told the world to put some respeck on Bow Wow’s name and all of his pre-social media era accomplishments. He wrote, “The funny thing is, I never looked at Bow as competition. The world made it that way. Sadly this generation only cares about now, and oddly laughs at history. My pops always taught me to give people their roses while they could still smell them.”

The post comes just days after Bow Wow announced his retirement from music to focus on TV and movies.

PHOTO CREDIT: Instagram, Getty

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