Ego Scumsworth Interview

Name: Ego Scumsworth

Age: 26

Reppin: Eastside Long Beach/Belmont Heights

In the lab working on: Dookie Hard 1.7, the follow up too acclaimed Dookie Hard. And The talented Mr. Scumsworth (Solo project)

Sounds like: I sound like a nigga who embraced the culture clash that Long Beach has to offer.

As a hip-hop artist how do you feel the Obama victiry will impact hip-hop?

EGO: I think black people as a whole got more pep in the step lol. As far as hip-hop it's no more, these crackers ain't letting niggas get shit.Cuhz now the highest authority is a black man. I think it'll expose nigga making excuses for their short comings and inspire others to keep moving in the positive, because anything is possible now.

So where do you think the gangster rap will fit in, in this equation?

EGO:I think it'll still thrive because people love that lifestyle so much. The majority of gangsters are so because they choose to be anyway. Black pres or not they're gonna keep watching Menace 2 Society and wanting to be like O. Dogg. You know I heard a grown ass man refer to himself as the real life O. Dogg. I was thinking O. was 16 or 17 in the movie. Your basing your actions and your role models on a character that's half your age damn near.

Do you think most rappers, rap that style beacuse they really lived it or because its what gets them the checks in the mail?

EGO: I can't call it bro. I know G.Malone personally that nigga's a CRIP.

What about the new guys coming Charles Hamilton, U-N-I, Pac Div, Kid Cudi?

EGO: I love Pac Div dude, them niggas are dope. I just saw Swiff D in a beat battle last night. He lost 1st round but the crowd wasn't his.

How do you feel about the surplus of good music on the west coast bubbling?

EGO: I feel great about it. I'm tryin to get my name in that mix.

You think they'll over take the rap that dominates now, the gangster gimmick dance step stuff thats running rap now?

EGO: I love when people are truly themselves, I think it's quite possible. The rap game takes on different personas used 2 be New York attitude based. Then gangsta, then gangster mafia type of styles, hustlers and drug dealers. Lyracism was in there too. Now it's swagger, and who got more swag than us? Niggas been California dreaming forever.

But no one on the west getting no pub like that.

EGO: Very true. I feel like the heads don't wanna share sometimes. They wanna keep all niggas exclusive to the few niggas that know. Other regions swagger jack'n Cali all the time jack'n Snoop, E-40 even Too Short

How?

EGO: That nigga was on tracks pimpin, speakin heavy slang, beats was super bass heavy. 808's and the whole 9.

Yeah true, Name me some hot underground West Coast artist.

EGO:Can I just name all my friends? Ego Scumsworth, J-U Sega, LB Fitted, Namebrand, Mykestro, Quiz, Conflict, The Blocc Boyz, KT the one, Cali, Lude

You ain't name me yet, lmao I got lil flow. Like the la river in the summer.

EGO: Apostrophe, Beach Boy J

Lol. Gotta hear me first, we gotta get in the booth.

EGO: Fuck it, You're my boy, I vouch for you, good or not, Plus you're from my city.

Ahhh yes

That's how a lot of sorry niggas infiltrated the game. Niggas was like fuck it, He from Atl and so am I so I fux wittum.

Lmao real talk, how you feel about the rap coming out of Long Beach?

EGO: Awesome, I heard Crook is working on some shit wit Joe Buddens, Joel Ortiz, and Royce the 5-9.

You mentioned Atl, Do you think we'll ever get to where we help are fellow West Coastian or even LB artist like that?

EGO: Iono, I've heard a lot of talk about doin such, but not much action. Like I'll talk to rappers tryin to make their reputations just like me and they'll Hollywood the fuck outta me.

Ceeeeesh!

EGO: But we got a Crooked I feature on 1.7. How was Crook not to busy and you were? He dropped 52 freestyle weeklys last year and still did our track. Like warrior strong?

Yeah Crook a Amnimal

EGO: Yeah, G. Malone got a veerse for us too.

Would you care to mention any artist who hollywood fuck jobbed yall?

EGO: Naw. Their not a factor anymore. I'll just keep going to their shows to network with their fans and shit. No big.

Alright, way to take the high road.

EGO: Thanx

Anything you wanna say to your fans, people who haven't heard of you or fellow rappers?

EGO: www.myspace.com/egomisfit Let the music speak on my behalf.

Gracias my dear buddy, on some other ish. Man I'm itching for a new episode of Heros.

EGO: Dude

I know!

EGO:Like sonner than later they need to put one on.




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What's Beef??

Can't we all just get along? Apparently not if you're Game. West Coast rapper Bishop Lamont happens to be next on Game's list of targets.

After Game & Bishop reconciled their differences at a party in Texas, Bishop said on an interview with hoodhype.com that the next night Game went on the defense and insulted him, and Glasses Malone on the radio.

"[Game] come upstairs, I get right to the front of the stage like 'What's happening?' Cause all this riff raff and talking bad, we trying to show love ... 'What is it my n****?' " Bishop explained. "His eyes get big, he call me onstage -- 'Aww Bishop Lamont, it's all love. It's a West Coast moment. Glasses Malone, I see you. Get on stage.'

"We all get on stage. As soon as we get on stage, it's like we all good. It's all love. I'm trying to push that line, but is it really that? He like 'It's all love. That's the past. We rolling together.' Everybody all smiles."

Then Game went on a tirade, and claimed his supremacy in the West Coast.

"Next day on the radio, he dissing me. He's dissing Glasses," the rapper said. " 'I'm the king of L.A. Yall nothing. Stay in my shadows. I tell you when to blow up.' Don't shake my hand, and do some fake stuff. You don't wanna get your ass beat.

"The n**** is fraudulent like that and phony. That's how she's gonna be. That's how that girl is. We gonna get into it, and it's gone be what it's gone be. He's a little girl and I can only deal with her like a girl, like a daddy should and discipline his little girl and get him right," Bishop continued.

The two rappers weren't never on the same terms ever since Game released 100 Bars (The Funeral).

The lyrics went like this;"Like Q in Juice, I'm coming for Bishop / I'm gunning for Bishop / I'm the king of this L.A. sh** / Tell me homie, is you Blood or Crip? Is you thug or bitch? / Cos the esses say, They don't never see holmes running round L.A. / Fake ass ghostwriter, get your lil' flow tighter / 'for I put you in the trunk of this f***ing lowrider," Game spits on the track.

Bishop never attacked Game for the record because Dr. Dre requested him not to. Still Bishop feels there's no beef.

"I ain't gonna do nothing to dude," said Bishop. "I love his momma, I love his sister, [and] I love his brother. He's scary as it is. He need a good ass whoppin, that's about it.

"Babygirl is just disrespectful, and it's about time people put him in his place. I'mma put him in his place. I'm gonna put him in his place 'cause he wanna play them games," he added.

Obama's Victory Speech

Obama's win sparks cheers around the world

Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow.
People across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. history being made, while the president of Kenya — where Obama's father was born — declared a public holiday.
In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted "Obama! Obama!"
"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place," South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, said in a letter of congratulations to Obama.
Many expressed amazement and satisfaction that the United States could overcome centuries of racial strife and elect an African-American as president.
"This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten," Rama Yade, France's black junior minister for human rights, told French radio. "America is rebecoming a New World.
"On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes," she said.
In Britain, The Sun newspaper borrowed from Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing in describing Obama's election as "one giant leap for mankind."
Yet celebrations were often tempered by sobering concerns that Obama faces global challenges as momentous as the hopes his campaign inspired — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the elusive hunt for peace in the Middle East and a global economy in turmoil.
The huge weight of responsibilities on Obama's shoulders was also a concern for some. French former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Obama's biggest challenge would be managing a punishing agenda of various crises in the United States and the world. "He will need to fight on every front," he said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped the incoming administration will take steps to improve badly damaged U.S. ties with Russia. Tensions have been driven to a post-Cold War high by Moscow's war with U.S. ally Georgia.
"I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the U.S. administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia," Medvedev said.
Europe, where Obama is overwhelmingly popular, is one region that looked eagerly to an Obama administration for a revival in warm relations after the Bush government's chilly rift with the continent over the Iraq war.
"At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama.
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke of "a new America with a new credit of trust in the world."
Skepticism, however, was high in the Muslim world. The Bush administration alienated those in the Middle East by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison — human rights violations also condemned worldwide.
Some Iraqis, who have suffered through five years of a war ignited by the United States and its allies, said they would believe positive change when they saw it.
"Obama's victory will do nothing for the Iraqi issue nor for the Palestinian issue," said Muneer Jamal, a Baghdad resident. "I think all the promises Obama made during the campaign will remain mere promises."
In Pakistan, a country vital to the U.S.-led war on the al-Qaida terrorist network and neighbor to Afghanistan, many hoped Obama would bring some respite from rising militant violence that many blame on Bush.
Still, Mohammed Arshad, a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the capital, Islamabad, doubted Obama's ability to change U.S. foreign policy dramatically.
"It is true that Bush gave America a very bad name. He has become a symbol of hate. But I don't think the change of face will suddenly make any big difference," he said.
Obama's victory was greeted with cheers across Latin America, a region that has shifted sharply to the left during the Bush years. From Mexico to Chile, leaders expressed hope for warmer relations based on mutual respect — a quality many felt has been missing from U.S. foreign policy.
Venezuela and Bolivia, which booted out the U.S. ambassadors after accusing the Bush administration of meddling in their internal politics, said they were ready to reestablish diplomatic relations, and Brazil's president was among several leaders urging Obama to be more flexible toward Cuba.
On the streets of Rio de Janeiro, people expressed a mixture of joy, disbelief, and hope for the future.
"It's the beginning of a different era," police officer Emmanuel Miranda said. "The United States is a country to dream about, and for us black Brazilians, it is even easier to do so now."
Many around the world found Obama's international roots — his father was Kenyan, and he lived four years in Indonesia as a child — compelling and attractive.
"What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had," said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck's in Bangkok. "He had an Asian childhood, African parentage and has a Middle Eastern name. He is a truly global president."