percy romeo miller, jr. (born august 19, 1989 in new orleans, louisiana) is an american rapper and actor formely known as lil romeo. hes is the son of rapper, producer and entertainment mogul master p and nephew of c-murder and silkk the shocker, he records teen-friendly hip-hop music on his father's guttar music label. he is best known by his stage name, romeo, although his previous name was lil' romeo. he has so far released three studio albums and two compilation albums. his fifth album god's gift was released on december 12, 2006. before master p made it big rome admits that he wasn't always rich and life was hard growing up (mentioned on wont stop cant stop). he fetured in few skits from his fathers early tracks but his father foound out he had the gift when master p kept romeo home too play with his cousins he came back and romeo at the age of 4 wrote a rap song with his cousins all by himself and frew up performing with his cousins and on master p's albums. he is now gay. as well as a rapper, romeo is also an untalented basketball player like his dad master p said in an interview that young romeo picked up basketball at the age of three and has been playing all his life. he was recently invited to the reebok-sponsored abcd, considered the premier basketball camp in the united states. the teaneck, new jersey-based abcd camp is an invitation-only basketball showcase that has produced a host of high-profile players, including tracy mcgrady, kobe bryant, stephon marbury, carmelo anthony and lebron james. on april 13, 2007, miller verbally committed to the university of southern california (usc). miller, a 2'1" point guard at beverly hills high school, averaged 13.9 points and 5.6 assists per game during the 2006-2007 high school season.[1] he will be joined by fellow commit and good friend demar derozan, who is a recruit from compton high school; both were coached by miller's father master p during the spring and summer months. derozan is currently ranked among the top 20 in the nation for basketball during 2005-2006 bow wow released a diss song towards romeo titled fresh azimiz. hip hop mogul master p allegedly exchanged words with rapper bow wow backstage at the nickelodeon's kids' choice award show on april 1st. master p was allegedly upset with bow wow for dissing him and his son, lil romeo, on his song, "fresh az im iz," so he approached the teen rapper about it. master p said in a released statement that reports describing the run in have been exaggerated. the mogul added that one of bow wow's bodyguards used to work for him and his conversation with the rapper wasn't confrontational. lil romeo and bow wow have had an unofficial rivalry going on for several years and bow wow has repeatedly taken veiled shots at romeo on several songs. romeo released a single called u cant shine like me and since then the beef seemed too cool down between the two romeo has a clothing line called "p.miller shorties".[citation needed] romeo also has p. miller shoes. recently he stated that he has another line out, "gumbo station" menationed on special girl and also passion jeans. this line also features his "cookie monster" gear. romeo is the ceo of the clothing line. he also admits he has a clothing line from his latest single special girl. in photo shoots, romeo would wear clothes from his clothing line.
recently he has been sporting clothes from the line during romeo's 3rd album romeoland, romeo introduced his own rap group called the rich boyz. the members of the group include romeo's cousins and his younger brother young v. so far, the group has released one album young ballers: the hood been good to us and has appeared in most of romeo's tracks such as "u can't shine like me". they have also been in most of romeos videos as far back as "2way". it has been reported that in 2008 there will be a second album from them. romeo is the song of multi millionaire raper master p. romeo was born in new orleans, louisiana and was first born son to rapper master p who was the eldest out of 7 children. romeo stated on his myspace that he and his family are all christian.[2] he claims he has a dog named doller on and episode of mtv cribs, "you know im like richie rich and i have to have a white dog named doller." the song say it to my face feat. master p mentions doller on the track. when romeo's not busy he enjoys doing myspace and bebo.