NBA YoungBoy‘s feature price was too high for The Game to to stay within the budget for the release of his new album Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind.
Speaking in a recent Clubhouse chat with Ma$e, Game’s manager Wack 100 said he had to make an executive decision and remove Game and YoungBoy’s “OPP” collaboration from the album — even though YoungBoy gave them a 50 percent discount.
“In YoungBoy’s defense, YoungBoy charge n-ggas $300,000 a verse,” Wack said. “That’s what he charge, that’s what it is. I can’t front he gave us a hell of a deal, but that situation would’ve cut into marketing overall.”
“So I had to make an executive decision on whether I wanted to pay the tab he sent me, which was a respectable, great tab, it was love, I can’t front. But that tab would’ve cut into that, that and that.”
He continued: “He gave me a deal for half that. He already sent me a bill for 150, which was love, that’s nephew. So 300 is his rate, but you know, because what happens is with YoungBoy, he was going to do that for the video and everything. So once you go to video and YouTube, he one of the highest streaming individuals on YouTube.
“You going to get your money back in the long run, plus now your artist is tapping into that fanbase that he may not have. So nothing against YoungBoy, YoungBoy didn’t disrespect us or violate us, him and bro cut his rate in half for us.”
Wack continued to say he would’ve been able to handle the bill because the album was only supposed to have a total of 20 songs. However, The Game added 10 more songs and six of them contained samples that needed to get cleared, leading to the budget getting “ate up.” Listen to Wack’s comments above.
The final version of The Game’s new album is stacked with features including Kanye West, Drake, Ice-T, Fivio Foreign, Roddy Ricch, YG, Ty Dolla Sign, Moneybagg Yo, ASAP Rocky, Jeremih, Pusha T, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz and more.
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The album was also supposed to contain a collaboration with the late Nipsey Hussle titled “World Tours,” however it was unavailable on Spotify and Apple Music upon release and has since been removed from the tracklist.
Out of all the features he’s grabbed throughout his decorated career, The Game recently shed light on a collaboration he’s still upset he missed out on. During a conversation with Billboard, the Compton native wished he got something done with the late Amy Winehouse.
“She’s hard as fuck. Her voice, man. Her voice and my voice with some jazz music would be on some other shit,” he said. “We probably gotta sample some Amy or something and put it over some trombones.”
Do after all the self sucking and big talk we have a terrible self defeating diss track, a flop album and cut song because he couldn’t afford the feature. Game really has embarrassed himself.
Only haters and Eminem dick riders say the album was a flop and that’s about 95% of the ppl who comment on this website.
Really so what exactly do we call 19k 1st week sales
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT SALES! I can tell you’re a little boy. Most of the good hip hop albums don’t do big numbers nowadays because little kids like you only listen to mumble/ bull shit rap that has no substance. Y’all are too dumb to listen to an album of substance and would be too confused after the first 30 seconds of actually being able to understand what they’re saying to even continue. Isn’t it past your bed time?
Excuses excuses…..
Excuses for what? I love it got took off the album. Was the worst song by far.
Why you so upset? Game had two good albums and now he can’t release without features and name drops.
It’s not our fault he couldn’t afford to pay a heavily discounted rate for a verse, from a current artist who outsells him all the time.
Yeah that’s not my point at all. I’m glad that song got taken off because it was the worst song on the album. All true hip hop heads know the best rappers in the game don’t do numbers like all these young goofy rappers like the lil baby’s and all that garbage so as I said, fuck sales numbers, that shit means nothing to me. Doesn’t deny it’s a solid album which you probably haven’t even listened to.
And Games independent. Personally I think the album shoulda done no less than 100k first wk bc its that good.
Getting that angry defending a rapper yet you’re crying about Eminem fans, hilarious. And clearly sales matter otherwise Game wouldn’t have invented a beef to promote the album. But here’s the funny thing… If he hadn’t dissed Em he would have sold even less. So cry and bitch and moan all you want… Critically the album is okay at best. Commercially it’s a flop. Game couldn’t even afford to keep a guest feature. And as a person he’s proven to still have the mentality of a child throwing a tantrum in a supermarket. This is the same guy claiming album of the year, in the same year that Pusha T, Kendrick, Nas, Black Thought, Lupe and Lloyd Banks all dropped very solid albums. Imagine being that delusional.
Angry? I stated facts and your response proves to me you’re just a Stan. Numbers mean nothing. Good music is good music. I don’t listen to music just because everyone else does. I don’t let other ppl decide for me “what’s hot in the club”
You haven’t stated any “facts”, so far all you’ve done is have a temper tantrum defending a mediocre album. Nobody is Stanning harder than you in this comments section and it’s actually hilarious that you’re pretending that this album is deep or something. I mentioned six rappers off the top of my head that already have far better releases than Game’s album this year, yet you’re still crying about Eminem. And you keep saying “numbers don’t matter” which is funny because it’s usually wack rappers that can’t sell who spout that platitude. You can say that if you’re a prestigious MC with classic albums in the catalogue, but Game is neither. So I’ll repeat again…. Mediocre album, flop sales, wack diss track made purely for attention and couldn’t afford to keep his features, even at half price. Embarrassing…. Kinda like a grown man that spends his career rattling off names as if he’s a groupie bragging about all the famous icks he’s sucked.
Man you’re so far off what I’m trying to say it’s actually funny. I’m not claiming game is the best and those 6 albums you listed, I FUCK with every single one hard, especially the banks album. I’m simply saying I like this album and everyone hates on the game far too much when he puts out good music. Who are we kidding anyways? The music you like is subjective but again, if anyones getting angry, it’s you my brother so sit on that. All those albums you mentioned, did they do numbers besides Kendrick? Did the banks album do numbers? I rest my case homie.
Got a discount and still couldn’t afford it you fuccin up. Made it look bad for YB too, mfs might think they’ll get it for the low if game could. Other shit
Literally the worst song on the album.
YB trash anyways, all these new age guys are horrible let’s just be honest. There are a handful of decent ones , but nah mane
I downloaded the album free the day it came out and it had both the Youngboy cut and the Nipsey cut. Streaming is such a fucking rip off. Yall paying for access to a library run by a librarian who is removing books from the shelves. Fuck streaming. I paid plenty back in the CD days and the shit was in my collection for life. You cant “pull” a song off a CD.
Let’s say I bought one album a week for $20, every week for 50 years. I would own 2600 albums and it would cost me $48,000. Let’s say I pay $11 a month for spotify for 50 years. I would have access to 95% of all studio albums for $6600. Anything else I want I’ll download for free and store it all on a hard drive or I could have to carry around 2600 albums that I would have to probably rebuy when they are worn out. Or I could pirate all the music, have it stored on a drive that I can access at home but I’m still going to go to YouTube when I want to listen to something I don’t have on my phone currently. I love hearing people complain about music streaming when we are completely spoiled with what they offer.
Yo Just Saying, if you download music for free then why do you need streaming anyways. I havent bought a CD since like 2008. Streaming is garbage. Maybe it woks for kids, but it doesnt work for grown ass adults who dont use their phone to listen to music. I listen to most of my music driving. By the time I get out the car, the last thing I wanna do is hear more music on some stupid headphones. ( I dont even own a pair) I have a stereo at home that takes a flash drive just like my car so Im good with MP3s. The only reason I go to youtube is to get the mp3s bro. I paid for plenty of CDs in my day. Over the lat decade ive learned that if you pay for music and make them rich, they just flaunt it and look down on people like you and me. Without music they have nothing, they would be driving an uber, flipping burgers, or robbing people. Some do that anyways because the music industry is a joke. Keep making them rich with streamin byg walking around with stupid headphones bro. Be part of the stan era, lol.
Youre getting ripped off fam. Pro tip if you never knew this, buy the album the week it drops, its always discounted. $10 – $15 tops, its usually closer to $10
Weak move. 150 racks worth a NBA YB verse, shouldn’t be listening to that Clubhouse ninja…
Imagine the real slim shady not affording this..
$300K for a verse, for a song, for an album, that nobody is going to buy. Straight buffoonery. How’s that Eminem dissing helping that album Jayceon? It aint….dude killed your album by saying absolutely nothing, LMAO!
im bout to go back to dl. since you put it that way it reminded me of all the $ I spent every Tuesday back then. fr
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Shit, they did me a favor, now i don’t have to skip it every time it comes on. That song was fucking awful. By far the worst on the album. It ain’t that game couldn’t afford it, it’s that that bs song wasn’t worth paying for, even if it was only $10
every top 100 song since 1946-2022 fits on a 3 dolla 32gb microsd card, just hit shuffle mcflys weirdo generation paying for radio and supporting fat old whi te guy drug n hoo ker habits
Game trying to get a champagne feature with a four loko budget lololololololol
Drillmatic sold 25k cracking the top 10. Last week CC2 debuted with 44k sold. Thing is Games independent, Eminem is signed to interscope with a way bigger marketing budget. Ems 2nd wave of greatest hits really ain’t moving the dial, with a big label backing it…..Anyway, Drillmatic is fire, it and Its Almost Dry are rap albums of the yr.
Great
After seeing this brother work and how he treats people I’m glad his album is shit, because he’s a shitty person and to top it off this brother sucks dick, real talk. Eat a bag of dicks Game
That feature was fucking HORRIBLE, though! Was very hard to listen for the first time, next time I just skipped it. 300k for that, huh… Haha.