After releasing a song in response to the shooting of Michael Brown called “Don’t Shoot” featuring Rick Ross, Diddy, Wale, and more, Game spoke with Hot 93.7 in Hartford, Connecticut about the making of the track.
Explaining the motivation to release the track, Game compared the song to the 1990 anti-violence anthem “We’re All in the Same Gang.”
“One thing came to my mind when I heard about what happened, well two things,” Game said. “Number one, it was just a shock. It was wild, like, ‘Not again.’ I had the same reaction as everybody else in the world when they heard it, well most people. My second reaction was, I remember when I was young and we had so many deaths going around in Compton, L.A., Watts. So we had this ‘We’re All in the Same Gang’ song right?…I just thought, ‘Wow, I can do this.’ I got a lot of cool relationships with people. I think that I can reach out to every artist I know to see if they’ll be a part of this song. I wanted to make it to where you guys would still play it on the radio but get enough people on it so it was impactful and it looked like we were a group and doing it and representing Hip Hop. So I just started reaching out. I reached out to Diddy first because of course that’s like my big brother as far as him being a mentor and mogul and the direction I wanted to go with the song. I slid it past him, once he okayed it I hit Rozay, and Wale, 2 Chainz, and Yo Gotti. I was in the studio with Curren$y and asked him if he wanted to be a part of it. He was like, ‘Hell yes.’ It just came together organically man. I put that song together in three days. Everybody I asked to do it turned it right around. I couldn’t wait to put it out for the world to hear.”
Game also detailed putting the song together in as little as three days and feeling positive about all the verses he received in return.
“Luckily nobody spit a verse that I was ashamed to put on there or went crazy,” he said. “The only person that went kind of a rebel for the cause on that one is Problem. But I think even his view was needed ‘cause some people do feel angry and really wanna protest and do things. Other people feel like maybe we shouldn’t loot or riot or something like that. It’s mixed emotions so I’m definitely glad I was able to get different minds and different voices on there from different areas throughout America to bring kind of awareness to what’s going on.”
Asked about lessons to be learned from the tragedy, Game alluded that ongoing activism will need to play a role.
“This is an ongoing thing,” he said. “It’s gonna take more than a song, or a t-shirt, or an Instagram post to stop it. I don’t necessarily know what it’s going to take to stop it, I was just trying to do my part in the positivity of the situation.”
At the end of the interview Game also broke down his thoughts on the potential for the officer responsible to be charged criminally.
“I definitely think they should be charged,” he said. “Anytime someone raises their hands that means that they’re at ease and they’re under your command. When you’re an officer of the law and you’ve trained and you go to this police academy and they tell you what situations you are to pull your gun out, and then aim your weapon, and then to even let your index finger pull the trigger on anyone, not even Mike Brown or a kid. Anyone that has their hands up, gracefully bowing out, they don’t want no problems, no drama. Whatever it is they’ve been caught for, their hands are up. What goes through the officer’s mind before you pull the trigger to you murder Mike Brown? What happens? I don’t know. Where does protect and serve get lost in translation? I can’t figure that out for the life of me.”
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From what I read he didn’t make any comparisons. He more or less related to the cause and effect of the situation that drove “We’re All In The Same Gang” to be created.
next song all these clowns make will be about killing their own race with weapons and poisoning their communities selling drugs to acquire more material possessions.
Exactly!!!
And you will continue to whine and complain and do nothing about it.
were all in the same gang was more genuine.
True story We All In The Same Gang was 100,000,000 times better than this. I’m not saying this song was trash but GAME should know better than to compare his song to We All In The Same Gang.
That song was a disgrace. Diddy actually name dropping Ciroc in a Mike Brown tribute record…
just no
I appreciate the effort but that song was CORNY
A word to the wise………GAME STR8 BEASTIN ON THESE NICCAS
more like GAME STR8 LYIN TO THESE NICCAS
stupid people, he wasnt comparing the songs, just the entity of it
Rick Ross was a prison guard who took an oath to shoot any unarmed males trying to escape his prison so I don’t see how he can be on a song like this.
Lollllll thank you!
Fuck outta here, I don’t wanna hear the right message from the wrong person
This nigga doing a song begging violence to stop then he drops an album and it’s full of gangsta shit smh
Exactly, tired of these rappers talking about positive change, when they 99% of the time contribute with nothing but negativity, so called entertainment or not!
Diddys verse really came from the heart, I wonder who wrote it?
police taking shots i aint talkin bout ciroc
Tired of these rappers talking about positive change, when they 99% of the time contribute with nothing but negativity, so called entertainment or not!
true, he’s acting just like Jeezy, saying he had just talked to farrakhan about violence against blacks, doing a full blown essay about ferguson, then getting caught the same week with an ak
If I was white I would focus on the negative instead of the positive.
bruthadee thinks everyone is white
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Self Destruction>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>this Game song with a thousand hypocrites
“We’re All In the Same Gang” had the message but shit never changed. It is still 10x the song “Don’t Shoot” will ever be.
shut the fuck up stripper!
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We all supposed to unite and be in the same gang cuz some nigga in another city got shot the fuck up? You know how many niggas in my own city get “accidentally” shot up by racist pigs that don’t hit national news, and I’m supposed to say it stops now because this nigga? Haha fuck that!
I see the system did a great job brainswashing you.
Really how ignorant are you people his hands were not up read more into it how many videos have you seen of ignorant good rats being loud, out of hand, immature and riddiculous over dumb shit they always feel they are getting mistreated so they make matters worst pull out a camera and record it cause a scene and expect themselves not to be made quite, I’ll tell you one thing if some ever tried to video tape me doing my job they would catch an ass beating. If I was a cop
I would be fed up with the ignorance from hoodlum, thug, low life people in some of these communities black or white pull up your pants have more respect for your self and this world that I work hard in every day to pay for your meals and housing because your too lazy to do so. If it’s time for anything it’s time to start teaching these mfs lessons the hard way more often maybe one day they will go waste there lives in another country or start respecting themselves and do something right with their lives. Rant over
(And like TI says if you don’t understand that you don’t understand English partner.
And FYI this goes out to whatever fucking race cause that’s not how I see it what so ever grow time to grow up your kind ain’t the only ones getting shot. And 98% of the time it
Has a good reason behind it. And another FYI DONT DO DUMB SHIT, don’t steal cause guess what theifs lose hands , cheaters lose dicks, and liers get their tongues taken Atleast that’s how it used to be , and most criminals got hanged so be thankful we have come this far because lately I would prefer it to go back to the old ways.