Complex Magazine beefs up their issue with an
in-depth interview with their cover artist, rapper The Game, they talk
about how he found his long-lost sister on MySpace of all places and how
a rapper who was once so revered by the entire country could become the most
hated after his beef with 50. He told Complex, “I was, six months ago, at a point of my life where I felt
like I knew how it felt for a person to want to commit suicide. Life was just
that bad,” he also said, “I felt
like I didn’t get the props that I deserved, and that started fucking with me.
And when you hear this album, you’ll hear the conviction and the pain.”
Even contemplating suicide, “…sitting in a closet by himself with fucking tears
running down my face, trying to figure out, how did I go from being one of the
best rappers in the world and the most loved to being one of the most
hated?” Surprisingly, he spoke
candidly about the good Doctor not being on The Doctor’s Advocate, “I stay loyal. It’s like people trying to…just because
people think Dre’s not working on the album, or they feel like Dre turned
his back, doesn’t mean that I’m not going to stay loyal to the guy that has
helped me turn my life around. How about giving me a chance to feed my family
for the rest of my life? Isn’t that better than giving me a beat?”
Of course, he goes on to say there could be a
retirement in his near future from rapping, saying “I think that I’m going to probably quit rapping around 31.
It’s not about digging in the cookie jar until all the crumbs are gone….that’s
why I’m producing on this album.” So,
get him while he’s hot and go out and support the kid Game.
Complex also shows a little skin with their
doll of the month, Fergie. She talks about the message she got from God,
that she was ruining her life. Fergie, aka Stacy Ferguson was
addicted to crystal meth for some time before she gave it up for her singing
career, “I just hit a point where something inside me – I like to call
it God – or my gut – told me, ‘You can keep going the way you’re going and mess
everything up, or you can stick with the master plan, but you have to change
shit.’ So that’s what I did!”
This month, So Cal’s Synthesis Magazine gets some ‘Real Talk’ with ?uestlove
of The Roots, and their digital release (FREE) is packed with interviews
with Young Dro and Mistah Fab, and they also discuss how 50
Cent has become invincible now listing the video game market as another
industry he’s capitalized and how he can’t be stopped.
Fader Magazine looks inside everybodys’ favorite HBO show about to get
cancelled this year, The Wire , with a series of interviews with the
characters and people who make the show what it’s become today. They also
take a look at the new South in hip-hop, but this time it’s coming from the far
east, the new “hybrid of the music season”, is Punjabi hip-hop. They
are usually right about this sort of stuff, so take a look.
Not a lot going on over at the Source or Hip-Hop Weekly this
month, surprisingly they might have a small tab to discuss in the meantime.
