Just a little time before the afternoon showers expected of summer weather started to come down, I rescued Baby Scumbag from a different kind of phenomenon—the large crowd of small fans expected to be swarming around such a popular young skater.
EC-Where are you from?
BS-Compton.
EC-Do you still live there?
BS-I do. And I stay in the valley on the weekends.
EC-How old are you?
BS-13
EC-What’s it like being a teenager?
BS-It’s cool. I mean, it’s a lot harder. It’s a lot different.
EC-What’s hard about it?
BS-I mean it’s a lot scarier because you actually have to worry about not wrapping it.…I don’t know if you get that. I’m 13, so I’m a teenager…At twelve I didn’t produce…
EC-OH! You’re scared about that!
BS-You get it now?
EC-Yeah, took me a second. Wasn’t expecting that answer. Well, I’m glad you’re being responsible. That’s important.
BS-I don’t want to have babies at the age of 13.
EC-You don’t want to have babies when you’re a baby, especially when you’re name is Baby.
BS-Baby Scumbag had a Baby.
EC-How about that name, how’d you get that?
BS-Well, I was coolin’ with my friend Keelan. We were up at 4AM just chilling and something happened and he decided to name me Baby Scumbag.
EC-Were you being a scumbag?
BS-I can’t really say what we were doing.
EC-Tell me about your Youtube videos. You have a lot of fans there.
BS-Yeah, it gets a little overwhelming, thinking about what to do. You have to keep coming up with funny things to do.
EC-You have a lot of people coming up to you, what is that like?
BS-It’s nice. I mean, I like the attention. It feels good, like I’m doing something right. But sometimes I do get annoyed but they are fans. You gotta be nice.
EC-Who gave you your first sponsorship?
BS-Primitive. Andy. He is the one that hooked me up when I was nobody. I’m not saying I’m somebody at all I’m just saying he was the first person who hooked me up ever.
EC-What grade are you in?
BS-8th.
EC-What subjects do you like?
BS-Math. And history.
EC-Give me a history fact.
