June 19, 2007 @ 4:52 pm

Lil Scrappy, The Game Beef Backstage at Birthday Bash

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Onstage name-calling is tradition at summer concerts, and Atlanta's twelfth annual Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash show on Saturday was no exception. At 2004's Birthday Bash, T.I. led the audience into a chant of "Fuck Flip," a direct diss aimed at Houston rapper Lil Flip, who T.I. felt was throwing shots at him while he was locked up for parole violation. This year, T.I., who headlined alongside Ciara, reportedly took subliminal shots at long-time nemesis Ludacris. "I'm from Atlanta - I didn't move here when I was 13," the rapper reportedly said. Then, during the set of G-Unit's Young Buck, the rapper reportedly said that he was, " . . . trying to make Cashville Records the next G-Unit cause 50 didn't share [those millions]" which his manager later stated was a "joke" and not a diss directed towards 50 Cent. But sources revealed to VIBE the real drama was backstage - this time between rappers The Game and Lil Scrappy. According to a source who was backstage at Saturday's show, The Game's 15-minute set included a round of verbal shots thrown at G-Unit - including Mobb Deep and Olivia (who was reportedly dropped from G-Unit Records in 2006) - as well as video vixens Vida Guerra, Melyssa Ford, and Gloria Velez. "They can suck my dick," The Game reportedly said, before jumping into the Kanye West-produced "Wouldn't Get Far," off his album, Doctor's Advocate. One person The Game didn't call out onstage was G-Unit affiliate Lil Scrappy, who's a part of an alliance between G-Unit and Lil Jon's BME clique, and who was reportedly backstage during the time of The Game's tirade. VIBE's sources say Lil Scrappy yelled out, "I see you, nigga," to The Game and his entourage when he was spotted backstage, and headed towards them. The Game, who had his own posse in tow, got into a shouting match with Scrappy, but no physical altercation has been reported. "The Game was onstage saying 'G-Unot' and the crowd was saying it with him," said the source. "That is basically disrespecting Lil Scrappy in his own hometown." Both Lil Scrappy and The Game declined to comment.

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