Bow Wow is a little hard to take seriously as a rapper or a human being.

But it wasn't always that way. Bow had legit hits as a youngster, whatever you may have thought of them quality wise.

In fact, as late as 2011 Nas was open to doing a collaboration with him, as Bow pointed out yesterday on IG.

7 years ago... just looking through my old messages. I really wanted this to happen. #NAS damn .... (things i work on and who im good with you might never know. I wanted this soooo bad. STILL DO. ONE DAY I PRAY ONE DAY)

A post shared by Bow wow (@shadmoss) on Apr 28, 2018 at 8:11am PDT

"7 years ago... just looking through my old messages. I really wanted this to happen. #NAS damn .... (things i work on and who im good with you might never know. I wanted this soooo bad. STILL DO. ONE DAY I PRAY ONE DAY)," Bow wrote under the text messages.

Despite Nas's openness toward working with Bow, nothing ever happened.

Perhaps Nas's team told him it wouldn't be a good idea, or Nas hit Bow with a huge fee to do a feature. Or perhaps Nas was drunk when he texted Bow back and then didn't remember it happened.

[Related: Kelis claims Nas was an abusive black-out drunk.]