50 Cent’s demo for The Game’s 2005 single “Higher” from The Documentary album has surfaced online.
In the clip, the Get Rich or Die Tryin‘ OG raps to the Dr. Dre and Mark Batson-produced beat in the same style and using similar lyrics to the final version that wound up on Game’s debut album.
50 Cent has long maintained he wrote around six songs that ended up The Documentary, some full and others only choruses, including “Westside Story,” “Hate It Or Love It” and “How We Do.” The songs were originally intended for his sophomore album The Massacre but Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine requested he give them to Game.
“They said, ‘The kid can rap, but he’s not a great songwriter,’” 50 said of Game in a 2015 interview. “When Jimmy called for me to do it I was like, ‘Alright, cool, I’ll fix it,’ and I gave it [to Game]. I only worked with him for about, I think, four days.”
Listen to the demo version of “Higher” here and check out the finished track below.
The “Higher” album cut included lyrics such as “I got the lollipop if you wanna lick/ Or you can take a ride on the magic stick,” which 50 Cent mentions in the demo. “Magic Stick” is also the name of Lil Kim’s 2003 single featuring 50 Cent. It’s a phrase he helped popularize during the 2000s.
The resurfaced demo appears to corroborate 50 Cent’s 15-year-old claim he wrote or helped write the majority of hits on Game’s major label debut, something Mr. Los Angeles Confidential continually denies.
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In March, Game and Wack 100 claimed Game wrote “What Up Gangsta” for 50 Cent, which Sha Money XL refuted. As the former G-Unit Records president wrote on Instagram, “all [cap emojis] all lies all for attention.”
The Documentary arrived in January 2005 via Aftermath/Interscope and G-Unit with additional features from Eminem, Nate Dogg and Faith Evans. The project debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling over 586,000 units in its first week.
In March 2005, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album 2x-platinum and eight months later, it had sold 2.5 million copies in the U.S.
Seventeen years later, Game is getting ready to unleash his new album Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind, but only time will tell if it will have the amount of success Game saw early in his career. The project has a scheduled release date of Friday (August 12).
THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME TO LIGHT
What truth????
The fantasy that rap fans have that half illiterate rappers write all their shit while actual musical geniuses like Prince and Stevie Wonder collaborate with people to make songs. Makes perfect sense.
NAH, I WAS WRONG. I TAKE EVERYTHING I SAID BACK. I BE SAYING SOME IGNORANT SHIT SOMETIMES FOR PEOPLE TO AGREE WITH ME YA KNOW?
I have 3 things to say,
1thing
2things
3things???
THE TRUTH THAT IM A HOMO!!! I COULDNT HIDE IT ANY LONGER SO I TOLD MY FAMILY AND HOMIES SO I GUESS ITS YA’LLS TURN!
WOW YOU’RE MAD SUSPECT AND SHOULD SEEK THERAPY. I’M SORRY I HURT YOUR FEELINGS OK? NOW GET OVER IT GROUPIE LMAO
Woulda been sick if these grown ass men were able to act their age. Imagine what a joint album with these two would’ve sounded like back in the day…
‘Can’t be top anything if you have ghost writers’
Where’s Flunk Flex?? Quentin Miller ain’t 50 Cent!
Thank God Game did Higher over. That shit was chicken noodle shit originally. Game already said 50 helped him on like 5 hooks but he never wrote verses for him
50 WAS ACTUALLY SPITTING SOME FLY SHIT ON HERE WHILE GAME DISSING WOMEN JUST LIKE THE BUM HE IS IN 2022.
AFTER CAREFUL LISTENING, YOU RIGHT I WAS WRONG. I SPEND TOO MUCH TIME TALKING SHIT ON THE INTERNET.
50 Cent wrote the hooks but Game verses were stronger
SAY 1 QUOTABLE OFF OF GAME’S VERSION
Hopefully the Church for Thugs demo leaks
Beat is weak as hell.
Well, I gotta give Lame credit, he made it his own
There are moments on the documentary where Game sounds like 50, even back then I found it odd. For sure 50 wrote some hooks because Game hasn’t really had a good hook since he left G-Unit. It is possible 50 wrote some verses but even if he didn’t, it is clear that Game used a 50 Cent flow on many songs. It’s a shame they broke up, Game could have made a lot more money and G-Unit could have lasted more than 3 years on top.
Yeah, Game at least used to not be able to write a good hook by himself. Not sure if he has improved since his first album, or if he still had help from others.
No amount of publicity will get me to listen to games music anymore.. w him I can’t separate his extreme corniness with his hard music.. used to love game in high-school shame
Y’all know damn well 50 caught wind of all this Eminem talk from game and told the streets to leak it. More will come ?
If 50 saved all those hits for himself he would’ve been unstoppable. Interscope really stopped him during Curtis album. And that still went triple platinum. But after that it was Wayne’s game.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA. The Black Slim Shady is the WORST diss ever going at Em…Nick Cannon is sleeping soundly now.
50 wrote “about” 6 hoks 4 me, those being: 1 how e do, 2 h8 it love it, 3 higher, 4 church 4 tjugs, 5 west side story, what = #6…??? i 4 the life of me cant remember… wil some1 of you pls fil me in…? thnx