What’s the first thought of Lil’ Scrappy you have? Is it he’s just another crunk rapper and can’t do anything outside of Lil’ John. The new deal between BME and G-Unit is going to make you change your mind; if not, you’ll think twice at least. Let Scrappy tell it, he’s in position to be a beast. That’s my bad, “a little monkey getting ready to turn into a gorilla.”

Not one to disappoint his fans, Scrap is going to keep doing the crunk music and party music; yes, they’re different. But, the new found deal and the rap kingpin, 50 Cent, has given Lil’ Scrappy a new found swagger that no one knew he had.

Being in the studio with Fif seems to bring something out of rappers, better yet known as hits and when you’re the music industry’s science project, that must prove true with Scrappy as well. The pressure is tremendous for anybody affiliated with G-Unit to sell, but judging Scrap’s demeanor, you won’t feel someone is ready to crack. In fact, he calls himself the “Prince of the South,” that right there is telling you that he wants it all on his back.

I don’t know if that swagger is a young man’s ambitions talking or Scrappy knows something that we don’t. When the album drops we’ll know. Until then, we have to go off word of mouth and we know the dangers of that. If you don’t, peep this interview.

JayRich: Hey, what's the situation being between BME and G-Unit?

Scrappy: "It's good, when I came in it was like 50 was already doing his thang. These two big gorillas, (50 Cent and Lil' Jon), bout to turn this little monkey, ( Scrappy), into a gorilla. I'm bout to be a monster this year."

JayRich: What other type of music are you doing this year besides the crunk and party joints?

Scrappy: "You know, Crunk and party music is two different thangs. Yin Yang is party and Jon is Crunk. You go get both of those and the regular Hip-Hop."

JayRich: We've seen what you can bring working with Jon. But, how has working with G-Unit influcenced your music?

Scrappy: "It bring the real shit up out ya. You be sitting there wit 50, and the real shit just come up out you. I put more feelings into it. At the end of the day, Jon want the shit to be Crunk. But, I can still get on a crunk beat and spit that real shit."

JayRich: So you're bringing a G-Unit flavor over the Lil Jon sound?

Scrappy: "Basically."

JayRich: What advice did 50 give you in regards to making music?

Scrappy: "He showed me other ways to do it. You know how they make movies; he ;make music like that. He can start from the ending and go backwards."

JayRich: What about the hooks, he has had some of the best hooks in Hip-Hop?

Scrappy: "Oh, I always been doing the hooks, but I couldn't do the last album cuz the sound. But, now I got an outlet to do it. The singing hooks and the melody, I got the chance to do that now."

JayRich: What's changed about you musically since the last album?

Scrappy: "I'm more creative, I spit harder. I'm more creative with the lyrics; I don't even have to write no more, I go in and spit that."

JayRich: A lot of guys claim to be doing that now, why?

Scrappy: "Me, it feel better, you ain't waiting to catch the shit off paper, it's just coming out."

JayRich: What about the wordplay and the lines getting lost in translation?

Scrappy: "We trying to get an album, the real shit go come up out you and I can still be witty wit the words at the same time."

JayRich: You not that big on metaphors then huh?

Scrappy: "Hell naw, I mean I got kicked outta school. I graduated from boot camp."

JayRich: What was high school like?

Scrappy: "I'm from southeastern Atlanta; and the school I went to, we didn't even like the side of town we was on. We moved out there from the hood to the suburbs. All them niggas out there want to be hood, but I was like, " Ya'll niggas ain't hood." They daddy's and mama's got big houses and shit like that. One day I dyed my hair blonde, I do what the fuck what I wanna to do, I walking wit my hair all picked out looking like fuck ya'll. Them motherfuckas couldn't stand me; and they was telling me that I wasn't go do nothing. That's why I pull up with a 2000 whatever to make them mad."

JayRich: What about the teachers?

Scrappy: "I got love from the teachers except for like two of em. I got kept back like three or four times. I really didn't go to class and when I did, I didn't like em cuz they was on some teach the minority instead of the majority. Like, they would teach only the kids that made A's and B's instead everybody else. I would be doing shit like selling weed orsmoking weed in the school. They would be like, "You make good grades when you do yo work, why don't you do the work?" One lady told me, "You ain't go be nothing." And when she told me that, I came back and seen her one day, I asked her you seen me on TV in the videos? She was like, "Yeah." I said," I thought I was go be nothing...you still in the same spot ain't you;" and I walked off."

JayRich: You did her like that?

Scrappy: "Yeah, I did her like that. She needed that."

JayRich: I do interviews with guys in person and I see how these groupies just swarm them. And it's to the point where you know that these girls wouldn't be at these niggas if they wasn't "on," you know what I mean?

Scrappy: "And you know what, it's like that...Let me tell you like this, my mama was a pimp, so I was always nice when it came to the bitches. I ain't never had no real problems when it came to the bitches; but before niggas will have a bitch every once in a while. You know, regular niggas don't keep a bitch too long, but when you famous you can't get rid of a bitch; you know what I mean. It's like how Martin said back in the day, when you ain't got the nice apartment and all that, they'll leave when you tell them. But, when you "on" they be like, "But, why?" (laughs) You know what I'm saying, that's how they act now. Remember when Pac said, "I done stood next to people and they didn't know who I was and they'll be like no. But, when they find out who I am, they whole look change." I had girls tell me no, I'm not they type, but all of a sudden I'm they type. I be like, "Bitch, you wish I would fuck you. Walk the hell on and dream what it feel like to fuck me."

JayRich: Do you stay mad at those women, because it's hard not to?

Scrappy: "Let me tell you cuz, if it wasn't for my mama and me having a little girl, and my sisters, I would hate all women. You can't hate women cuz you need them. I hate em and love em at the same time."

JayRich: How's the balence between relationships and dealing with the industry?

Scrappy: "You can't... I can't keep no relationship going. My baby mama ain't hearing that shit... naw, she ain't hearing that shit."

JayRich: What about yo old boys?

Scrappy: "I cut that shit out a long time ago. At first, you couldn't pay niggas to come scoop you up, but, they be like, "Scrap, why don't you call me?" I be feeling like, "When did I ever call you?" I mean, we see each other, we see each other."

JayRich: Are you getting more personal this time around?

Scrappy: "Yeah, I really didn't have the time to because we was on the Trillville complilation. My song "What The Fuck Going On" and the song with Bohagon, "Be Real," I told a little bit bout having a knife in my coat selling weed and how I stabbed a man six times in the head and shit like that." This time I get to go in detail."

JayRich: What's the point you wanna get across about yourself?

Scrappy: "I'm a real ass nigga instead of trying to be a hard ass nigga. A hard ass nigga can't wait to die and always die fast. A real nigga like me, just want to get his money, take care of my daughter and live."

JayRich: What feeling do you have knowing that you gotta please two people with your album instead of just one?

Scrappy: "I know that I gotta bring it. I gotta open up and show myself, but I can't leave out my Crunk fans. I wanna balence it out."

JayRich: Whatever happened to the case with the Orlando Police Department?

Scrappy: "It's still pending. We just go let it do what it do; it's a lot of stuff that come with suing people, especially the man."

JayRich: They haven't tried to settle with you yet?

Scrappy: "Naww, they trying to say it was my fault."

JayRich: How long the process been going on?

Scrappy: "Two, two years."

JayRich: Speaking of Hip-Hop and politics, what's your opinion on Oprah?

Scrappy: "I've been getting on her ass; every interview. My opinion is she ain't never done nothing for me. She done things for her race. People don't wanna elevate in the wrong way and when you've been broke before you should remember how it feels to be broke. If you rich and you've been broke and you get approached by someone in the same position, why wouldn't you be open arms? Why wouldn't you have Ice Cube on the show and you can bring Morgan Freeman to your show."

JayRich: She counters by bringing up the bitches and hoes?

Scrappy: "That's been going on forever, we say bitch-ass niggas and be talking about males, but they'll call that talking about women. For someone that's so smart, she's dumb as hell. She old as hell; sometimes it's good to listen to some Kenny G, R&B, to smooth yo mind out. I get tired of listening to myself sometimes cuz I'm so harsh. But, to go against us knowing that the majority of us is your race.... you should be putting us out there. She brings Kanye out, I respect her on the spritual side for that, but she should have a Master P on, Ice Cube on, or a 50 Cent on."

JayRich: Speaking of 50, what's your reaction to the comments he made calling Southern Hip-Hop overly-simple?

Scrappy: "You didn't hear him say that. You didn't hear him say that. You might of herad Nas say that. You sure it wasn't Nas?"

JayRich: Naww, I'm talking about the 50 comment from MTV. I asked Bohagon the same question; he was talking about the simple rhyme scheme, lyrical content, that whole thing.

Scrappy: "You didn't hear him say that... If he did, that suprised the hell outta me, cuz he simple too. It don't take a genius to rap."

JayRich: You right.

--By Joseph "JayRich" Robinson