The Game has shared the extent of 50 Cent‘s contribution to his 2004 single “How We Do.”
The Compton rapper introduced himself to rap’s mainstream with his seminal album The Documentary. Prior to their falling out, Game linked up with 50 and Dr. Dre for the project’s second single.
Game recently sat down with Carl Lamarre for the premiere episode of The Debut Live to dig deeper into how The Documentary came about. At one point in the conversation, Game explained the creative process behind hit single “How We Do” and how 50 ended up on the record thanks to Dre.
“Dre was walking back in the studio like, ‘Ay, what’s that? What you mumbling?’ I’m like, ‘Fresh like, uh, Impala.’ He’s like, ‘Let’s lay that.’ After I got done, Dre was like, ‘Yeah, I fuck with that shit.’
“Two weeks later, I came back to the studio and 50 was on this muthafucka’… At this time, 50 was big as a muthafucka, so I was happy about that because he was in G-Unit, but Dre had let 50 on it and 50 knew what the fuck it was when he heard it so he got on it with me. We wasn’t even in the studio when we laid that one.”
For the full interview, stream the entire episode of the House of ACES presents TheDebut Live featuring The Game Friday night (August 19) at 9 p.m. ET on CEEK Metaverse.
The stories between 50 and Game never seem to end. A demo version of The Documentary‘s “Higher” surfaced with vocals from 50 Cent earlier in August, which comes after 50 has long maintained he wrote about six tracks off Game’s major label debut.
“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.”
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50 Cent also responded to Wack 100’s claims that Game wrote “What Up Gangsta” during an appearance on The Breakfast Club. 50 attests that Game wasn’t even around him at that point.
“[The Game] said he wrote ‘What Up Gangsta.’ I’m like, ‘C’mon, bro. You wasn’t even around when we did that. That was before you even came into the picture,’” Fif said. “That was Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. We didn’t even know who he was until after. There’s a point when you [reach] desperation and you’ll say anything.”
The Game is the only man in Hip Hop to talk about the same shit for 20 years.
And that’s the problem his albums have been pretty much the same thing just spoken different
The game would. E top 5 legend no doubt… but his entire career is imitating everybody and name dropping he was never his own person, still isn’t. So he’s a carbon copy and by default never in a goat convo… plus he acts like a bitch
Game has to come to terms that 50 birthed his rap career…
literally can’t believe anything Game says anymore. just stop and do you (and ditch wack)
This dude is known as Captain Cap or Sir Lies Alot, we dont believe you anymore duke!
See the problem with Game is that he’s still living in 2005. Bro, you never mentioned anything about this. Nobody is really worried about that album anymore. It’s not even a classic album. None of your albums are classic.
Doctors advocate is a classic
Only the documentary is a classic nothing else
Come on game you Lying again you love to Lie we can’t believe nothing you say you never said nothing about this when The beef started just like you never said anything about you writing what’s up gangsta
It’s clear that 50 wrote that, Hate It Or Love it, and half of WestSide Story.
Game has Alzheimer’s already
50 most likely did his thing first and then Game hopped on because it’s the only time we’ve heard Game sound like that while we’ve heard 50 with similar flows throughout his career. Speaking of careers, if not for G-Unit, Game may never have blown up. Instead of bitching about what 50 wrote or didn’t write, you should thank him, dre, jimmy for putting you out there for the world to see. I’m tired of this bitch ass behavior.