The Game threw down the gauntlet last month when he challenged Eminem to a Verzuz battle during his appearance on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s Drink Champs podcast. Better yet, the Compton native declared he’s a “better rapper” than the self-proclaimed rap god.
While his comments may have come off as preposterous to some, the Black Wall Street rapper says he set his sights on Eminem simply because his more obvious foe, longtime rival 50 Cent, “can’t rap.”
“You want to know why [I challenged Eminem to a Verzuz battle]? Because 50 can’t rap!” he explained on UPROXX’s new series Fresh Pairs, hosted by Just Blaze and Katty Customs. “And so I gotta go a level up and challenge the better rapper.”
Despite dismissing 50’s mic skills, The Game did give his former G-Unit boss credit for his success in the TV industry — but claimed the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ rapper poses no threat to him in a rap battle.
“It’s no 2005, 2006 animosity toward 50,” he continued. “I watch Power, I watch the Tommy one, I watch the one with Isaac Wright on primetime television. I watch 50’s shows, I’m a fan of those shows. BMF is great!
“But I’m a rapper, he’s a rapper and I am the better rapper. I’m not the better TV producer — I’m giving him his dead flowers while he can still smell them. But when it comes to rap, he can’t out-rap me. Your buddy can rap, though!”
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Turning his attention to Eminem — for whom he’s apparently readying a diss song – The Game reiterated that he doesn’t subscribe to the notion that the Detroit rap icon is all-powerful and simply wants to see him step into the arena, just like he’s done with previous foes.
“When I said what I said about Em, it was to challenge him, to challenge Hip Hop, to ignite a rap riot — not a street fight or ‘let’s pull out the straps,'” he explained. “But ‘N-gga, get up and rap! Let’s rap!’
“[Because of] Em’s career and all the records he’s sold … they got Eminem put up here where he’s, like, this rap god, but when dissected by myself, I don’t feel like he’s a better rapper than me … I just feel like a rap god where?”
He continued, “At one point, I did [think Eminem was the best rapper] because I was signed to Aftermath and I’m loyal, and Interscope had me thinking that he was better than everybody else. At one point in my career, I was thinking that Em was better than Jay just based off of ‘Renegade’ because The Source magazine said that Eminem got Jay on that verse … until I became a vet and a legend in this game.
“And so now, this Game today and Em today … I’m better today. And if I’m not, get up and let’s rap! I ain’t come here to fight. Let’s rap. You did it with MGK; why not do it with me? You did it with Mariah Carey, you did it with Nick Cannon.”
The Game’s latest shots at 50 Cent arrive in the middle of a rekindled feud between the longtime adversaries, sparked by The Game’s recent claim that Kanye West did more for his career in two weeks than Dr. Dre ever did.
After 50 gave a bemused reaction to his statement, The Game warned the Queens, New York native the last time they sparred, “G-Unit clothing got put in a casket with the entire group & you went into television.”
He later mocked 50 for being “fat as fuck hanging upside down like rotisserie chicken at the Super Bowl” and claimed his girlfriend, Cuban Link, was in his DMs.
The Game Reignites Beef With 50 Cent: 'Your Rap Career Died Wit Them Loli Pop Strap Tank Tops'
50 Cent returned fire by posting a video of Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine seemingly snubbing The Game at a recent Los Angeles Lakers game with the caption, “LOL The man didn’t even look at him. Get this guy out of here 50 wrote the records. LMFAO.”
The Game retaliated by commenting on the post, “Your rap career died wit them loli pop strap tank tops … you a actor, [and] that’s why you ran to tv […] leave this rap shit to n-ggas who can spell correctly and actually got bars, goofy n-gga!”
Most recently, The Game denied 50 Cent was responsible for putting him on during an Instagram Live session with Fat Joe, claiming his name was already “ringing bells in the streets of Hip Hop” when he was added to G-Unit.
50s a better rapper than Game
Game saying that he’s good for a Verzuz with Eminem is kinda both hilarious and sad at the same time. I hope he doesn’t really believe it and only says nonsense like that for clout. Even 50 is a reach, the man has countless megahits under his belt. Banks maybe?
In what way? Lyrically I don’t see it. He’s better at making a hit, but if you’re talking about just who actually has more skills, I don’t think 50 has even really cared about rap in at least 15 years. And he always had basic rhyme schemes. Not a lot of punchines. I mean I think Game seems like a wack person but I do think he’s actually better than 50 lyrically
Fif alright, tho Em too lyrical miracle for Game.
Truth be told, 50’s joints had a lot of layers to them. Primarily his early joints, G-Unit Radio, Power of the Dollar etc. Game’s raps are entertaining, but have no layers. It’s all generic name dropping nonsense. He may be better bar wise, but 50 is a far better narrator. He can also drop a hit record whenever he feels like it, “I’m the Man” is an example. But, Game needs the attention for his album. That’s all he’s here for anyway.
Wow ….. you broke that down perfectly.
“You want to know why [I challenged Eminem to a Verzuz battle]? Because 50 can’t rap!” He could make your debut album what it is and sell it for you though.
if still had the hunger he had in the early 2000’s and wanted to rap, this would have been put to bed along time because 50 wouldn’t have let this clown talk all this shit for almost a month now. 50’s earlier shit still to this day shits on everything the game has ever put out and he still cannot accept that he can’t get out of 50’s shadow because 50 was the one who gave him his biggest platform and biggest numbers then just took it away. If he wasn’t in G unit at the time his first cd would not have sold the way it did. Everyone in the group did crazy numbers. The game still needs to rap to pay off the 7 mills he got smacked in court with, 50 is financially set and doing what ever he wants and he doesn’t want to be that rapper in his late 40’s needing to rap and beef like he did in his 20’s, when the fuck do you have growth. Eminem could care less about the game or anything that clown has to say the GAME is irrelevant and has no buzz what so ever anymore, anytime he has a record or something coming out he comes after people and no one cares at this point. He has to be a joke in the eye’s of these people eyes and there has to be a long running joke in dre’s/50/em’s circle about the game its album dropping time who is he going to go after now, AND TO THINK THIS IS ALL FROM HIM NOT BE IN THE SUPERBOWL PREFORAMCE. LOOK AT THE WAY YOU RESPOND WHEN YOU DON’T GET YOUR WAY. WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE WANT TO PREFORM WITH YOU OR HAVE YOU IN THERE CIRCLE ANYMORE. YOU BURNED ALL THE GREAT BRIDGES YOU HAD, GET BACK ON THE POLL AND AND GET SOME DOLLAR BILLS SLIPPED IN YOUR G STRING. sorry for the vent but this guy antics is getting tiring and mad predictable.
Yeah he is clown ?! U HIT IT ON THE HEAD
The game just played himself. His biggest records are with 50 Cent. Game getting more and more pathetic by the day.
EVERYONE FROM HIS ERA HAS LEFT HIM IN THE DUST. GUYS LIKE RICK ROSS, YOUNG JEEZY, TI, AND WAYNE DON’T EVEN CARE ABOUT RAPPING ANYMORE. MEANWHILE GAME IS OUT HERE WITH THOSE STRUGGLE BRAIDS AND HIS HANDS OUT BEGGING TO BUST A FREESTYLE LIKE THIS IS 2002. HE’S FAKE HUNGRY BC HES BROKE.
Gayme just seems like he’s lazier than all his peers, everyone else is working hard on something else while not having other people’s names on their mouths!
Why does this guy continue to bring up 50’s name as if he’s even a relevant rapper these days. 50 Cent hasn’t made an intriguing song since his first album. Literally one album and then completely done. As soon as him and Dre parted ways, it was a wrap.
These young up and comers have to shoot high man, they’re hungry, I mean Game is only FORTY TWO years old right?!
He’s 42 and he’s still rapping? Ugh!
A verzuz won’t prove nothing. They have two completely different fan bases…. if he really want Em to respond then he need to drop a diss track. There’s no way Em won’t respond, Game is too known and too good of a rapper for Eminem to ignore.
Not a fan of either, but I can’t even name one Game song. Didn’t he do one with Kanye years ago? That’s the only one I remember lol.
the game a clown, last decent album was doctors advocate, hope em doesn’t take the bait with such a small fry pulling on the hook
Gayme ain’t hurting 50 with anything he says, this ain’t 15 years ago
Eminem vs Brotha Lynch Hung
This guy is not right in the head and seriously everybody should realize that by now. He’s still obsessed with 50 almost 2 decades later while the latter has moved on to much bigger and better things. 50 and G-Unit had FACTUAL diss tracks vs Game which I personally prefer over just dissing (usually, except for songs like Ether and Hit Em Up which were partially based on facts) and 50’s first 3 or so albums are (much) better than all Game’s work. 50 can’t rap? He must not have listened to Power of The Dollar. Game is of the same stable as Ross, both portray persona’s, not real life (past).
This nibba cringe af, not to mention the fact that 50 would blow his whole discography out of the water with his first two albums ONLY, foh
Rapping that pays bills. Age doesn’t matter. Better than a 9 to 5 or claims of “ owning your own business” which consists of cutting grass, doing hair or Uber driving
How can games say 50 Cent can trap but he wrote his biggest hit that makes no sense he need to stop smoking
Vs is not about battling it’s your hits. 50 got him cooked
50 cent is better then game