The Game has gone back and forth on how he feels about Eminem throughout his career, but he has now made it clear that he deeply respects the rap legend’s work regardless of their past spats.
In a VladTV interview clip posted on Saturday (December 9), the Compton native discussed his chart-topping debut album and having the opportunity to work with some of Hip Hop’s finest on the project, including Slim Shady’s contribution to “We Ain’t.”
“Watching Eminem record and his whole recording process,” he said. “That might’ve been one of the highlights of my career, because I don’t know if you want to call it weird or legendary or some Einstein type of shit, evil genius type of shit, but Em is a very, very complex and different individual in good ways.
“When he writes raps, he turns the paper around — he just writes in circles and turns it. When he reads it, he turns it back the opposite way and starts to read it … when we were using paper, I don’t know his recording process these days […] That process was dope. I’m forever grateful for being able to experience, y’know, prime Eminem in his essence in Detroit.”
The above comments stand out particularly because The Game has previously expressed his admiration for Em but also taken shots at him.
During a 2010 interview, he said: “In Hip Hop, Eminem is the only rapper that nobody ever wants a problem with, including myself, man. Eminem is like the most lyrically insane. Even when I was going at 50 [Cent] and me and [Dr.] Dre wasn’t seeing eye-to-eye, I stayed away from the white dude. Y’know, ’cause he a problem.”
When asked what he would do if Slim Shady dissed him, the former G-Unit member succinctly responded: “Run.”
Last year, however, he made a contrastingly bold claim about Eminem during an appearance on Drink Champs and even challenged him to a Verzuz.
“Eminem is Eminem, I like Eminem,” he said. “He’s one of the fuckin’ good MCs, great MCs. I used to think Eminem was better than me. He not, he’s not. Challenge it. Yes, I do [want to do Verzuz against Eminem]. What you mean, yeah I do? The fuck you mean? I’m not saying I want smoke with Eminem; I’m saying I want smoke with Eminem, him, and him, whoever.”
Just a few months later, the LA rapper released a scathing Eminem diss track called “The Black Slim Shady.” Taken from his latest album, Drillmatic: Heart vs. the Mind, the 10-plus minute tongue lashing features The Game spitting: “So oh, he goes platinum and oh, I’m on the ‘Math with him/ He got all the Blackest friends, he wants to be African, me/ Left for dead on the Doctor’s Advocate/ Dre never executive produced it, I just imagined it.”
This past summer, Eminem finally responded to his former collaborator’s past comments about his music not being played in clubs. In a guest verse on Ez Mil’s “Realest,” the 51-year-old raps: “All the envious rappers I’d torch if I’m on a joint with ’em/ And that is the only retort is I’m not played in the clubs muthafucka put a cork in it/ Only reason they still play your shit in the clubs is ’cause you still perform in ’em.”
Bipolar af 😂
He tried to rejuvenate his career off Em’s name. It failed miserably. Now he’s back to kissing his ass. That’s some clown sh!t
u can respect a mf n still come at them . that’s the warriors way… JayZ did 2pac beats…
Going after the biggest rapper in the business because you lost multimillion dollar lawsuits is far from a warriors way. That’s a cowards way. He tried to get a quick payday off his diss that he promoted for months. He failed horribly, much like your comment
Em fell off years ago. Em never responds to real emcees.
Em always responds back..he doesn’t do it immediately but he gets around to it in a verse
Em fell off years ago. Never responds to real emcees
The games trash diss didn’t deserve a response. Besides the fact that it was soft as hell, the game tried starting a beef because he’s down bad.. and Eminem knows it. If Eminem fell off like you claim, the game never would’ve tried what he did
Most real emcees respect Eminem. That’s one of the main reasons why his beefs are only with trash rappers. All of the disses aimed towards him where Em didn’t respond were not worthy of a response. Game, Nick Cannon, etc. Even though MGK is trash, Rap Devil wasn’t THAT bad in most people’s minds hence why Em responded.
u put game n Wilding out rapper in the same league.. u know chit
@TupacSeeds ya because they both released diss songs aimed at eminem that were so bad he didn’t even have to respond lol he was giving examples
The MGK situation was also a chance for Em to take a shot at Diddy because Diddy approved the release of Rap Devil. So a part of why Em responded to MGK was to let Diddy know to leave him alone. And also, Em mentioned MGK first on wax so he kind of had to follow up.
Em did respond to them..em may not make a full dis record back but he’ll respond back later in verses..em responded back to nick in the record he did with fat joe and just recently responded back to game in his verse realest
The verse with fat joe is what ignited the fued again and caused nick to release those 3 wack songs,em did kinda respond in MTBMD to those saying something with cannon and nicking I don’t remember to well
Yeah I was talking about Eminem responding with a full song like Killshot. Not jabs. Thought that was kind of obvious after I specifically mentioned him responding to MGK, but that’s okay.
He’s praising him now, but i’m sure he’ll diss him soon again. Fucking punk.