BOW WOW PLANS RETIREMENT FROM RAP--SHOOTS PORN SCENE IN MOVIE!!!

Rapper Bow Wow will retire from hip-hop following the release of his eighth album, so he can focus on his acting career. The 21-year-old hitmaker's seventh album, The Pedigree, is scheduled to hit store shelves later this year (08). And Bow Wow insists it will be his penultimate music venture - because he's desperate to redirect his attention to the big screen.

He says, "After the eighth album, I'm done. (I have) probably one more in me and that's eight. Like, I'm one (album) behind Nas, and that's crazy." And the star - who tested his acting talent in an upcoming episode of hit U.S. show Entourage - admits there's one celebrity in particular he'd like to model his career on, revealing "I wanna be the next Will Smith".

Everybody wants to be a better actor. I don't believe they ever retire except Will Smith who kept his word.

MEANWHILE on the acting front, he is set to raise temperatures after stripping off to shoot a sex scene with an adult film star as part of his new role on TV series ENTOURAGE. The hip-hop star, real name Shad Moss, has landed a part as a stand-up comedian on the hit U.S. show. He is convinced his female admirers will love the steamy scenes - but he confesses he can't even recall his busty co-star's name. He tells MTV.com, "I know the girls, they're going to go crazy when they see it. The ladies are gonna go crazy when they see Bow Wow's first sex scene...to bed the porn star - because the scene wasn't too different from his own.

"It was with a porn star. I don't know her name. She probably watching this like, 'What? I did a scene with him, and he doesn't remember my name?' Nah, I don't remember her name, but she was bad though. She was baaaaad!" And the 21-year-old had no problems shedding his clothesbedroom antics. He adds, "I was cool. I was comfortable with it. I was definitely comfortable with it. It is what it is - normal stuff that happens. It's crazy 'cause for me, it was normal. It was normal, but I know when I look back at it, when I see it, I'm gonna be like, 'Damn! Look at this. This is crazy!' I stun myself sometimes, I can't even front (pretend)." The fifth season of Entourage debuts in the U.S. in September (08).