Most Game fans would agree that his Documentary-era prime is behind him, but the man himself still believes he belongs on the throne of West Coast hip-hop.
Appearing on the latest episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, the Compton native confidently asserted that he’s the number one rapper repping the Left Coast today.
“Can’t nobody out-rap me, man,” he declared. “And anybody that knows will know. No one can do what I do. No one has my skillset. Not only do I have the ability to rap circles around people, I’m also with all the bullshit too if it came down to that. I’m the best rapper in this town.”
After former NFL star Sharpe pushed back on The Game’s statement and mentioned legends like Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg, the Aftermath alumnus doubled down.
“I love Cube but Cube can’t out-rap me,” he claimed. “And by the way, the reason that Cube can’t out-rap me is because I used Cube’s legacy to help me sharpen [my skills]. I used Snoop’s legacy to help me sharpen myself. I used Dr. Dre and N.W.A … those guys came before me.
“It’s like Kobe [watching] Mike growing up. In Kobe’s prime, Mike couldn’t hold Kobe. But that’s because he came before him and he was done with it. Now, if I was in 1992 with Cube, Cube might be able to go crazy. But right now? Nah, there’s not a rapper on the West that’s better than me.”
Asked if he sees himself as the best rapper from his hometown of Compton — a city that has also birthed the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Eazy-E and DJ Quik — The Game replied: “I’m definitely the best rapper from Compton. Definitely.”
Watch his comments at the 1:19:16 mark below.
The Game’s bold claim comes hot on the heels of his latest project, Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs a Trailer.
Marking his first entry in DJ Drama‘s iconic mixtape series and first solo effort since 2022’s Drillmatic, the 18-track project boasts appearances from Mozzy, Jeremih, Eric Bellinger, O.T. Genasis and even former Paramore singer Hayley Williams.
Kanye West was also supposed to lend his star power to the supporting cast on a sequel to their classic Late Registration collaboration “Crack Music,” but The Game decided to shelve it at the last minute, according to messages he exchanged with a Ye fan account.
Gangsta Grillz: Every Movie Needs a Trailer is designed to whet appetites for his long-awaited The Documentary 3, the third installment in The Game’s flagship album series.
“We coming top of the year … January, February — something like that,” he recently told Real 92.3 L.A.’s J Cruz. “I was going to stop with The Documentary 2 but my grandmother always told me, ‘In life, you got three acts.’ And in the Bible, it says you live three scores and a 10 — a score is 20 and a 10 [equals] 70. So if you live to 70 years old, you’ve lived a pretty full life.”
The Game added: “I wanted to do a trilogy just to service my grandmother’s memory and the things she taught me — being more mature and wiser, being a God MC at this point. If anybody knows anything about The Game, they know my pen is never slacking and my ability to put together albums compeltely is always top-tier, so [The Documentary 3] is incredible.”
Oh please, Game, you’re just the West Coast’s version of a guy who watched The Godfather and thought he was a mastermind. You’re not the best from Compton—Kendrick’s got the vibe, the flow, the legacy. And Snoop? He’s still got that smoothness you can’t even try to replicate. You used Cube’s legacy to sharpen your skills? Bro, you’re like a kid who copied his dad’s homework and called it genius.
True ! Good points
Snoop and Game are close and Snoop is a fraud Eazy E exposed it years ago. Game is from gang affiliation. Kendrick is a theater kid.
The guy is a mess, completely ridicule ! A f….. looser ! An envy man .
The most delusional rapper from the West Coast ever. Hear him tell it, he’d say he’s a better rapper than Ice T, Ice Cube, Tupac, Eazy E, Snoop, Kurupt, and Kendrick and say he can produce bears better than Dr Dre, Daz, DJ Quick, Fredwreck, HitBoy, Tyler The Creator, and DJ Mustard. Maybe he should focus on paying Priscilla Rainey instead of delusions of grandeur.
Tupac is from Baltimore not California he’s a east coast guy who pretended.
You obviously don’t know your hip hop history asshole. His mom moved his sister and him tot he Bay Area while he was still in high school. So therefore he had grown up some on the west coast. So you’re full of shit.
Real history he was 17 by the time he moved. Then moved back to the east coast for college that is the real history and he was a actor. Fake thug went to acting school and college complete fraud.
He was 17 by the time he moved to Cali then moved back east coast for college. 1 year in Cali? Yeah complete fraud add on he was raised by a white woman. He grew up in Baltimore spent his final year of highschool in California but cope with your lies.
How he actually called our Eminem unlike hypocrite Kendrick? But you right he needs to diss Kendrick. You know the same Kendrick that ran from Joey the same one that sent his lackies to diss Joey and refused to respond. Same Kendrick that used connections to get Joey’s album delayed and kill momentum.
Its a pity g unit ain’t still tight what 2 albums you got to put the work in make it lit to get to the top and stay there but what ever we down with what you put out
50 is fake and the rest of G Unit hate him not just game he burned bridges with Buck, Yayo, and Lloyd. Outside 50 the rest of G Unit could reunite let Ye produce them. That poor attempt to bring it back failed too with Kidd Kidd who also fell out with 50. Other groups were better and modern rap is better.
When you’re great at something, you don’t need to say it; other people will.. the Game is an old ass insecure, man child.. the only hits he ever had were because of 50 or Dre. Once they left, his career turned to shit
Celebration, Red Nation, Eazy, and many others he continued as a rapper without them.
Nope he was fine and still got record deals but a vulture like you doesn’t know that.
The Lame brings the word cringe to a whole new level. Never trust a guy who gets a butterfly tattooed on his face
I’ve never heard a single person anywhere ever say the game is the greatest rapper lol every album he releases, it gets worse and worse
well here is something interesting he is richer and more respected than you ever will be
His albums are better than 50’s last project and Eminem but no one calls that out and he releases more consistently. Unlike Kendrick he put on west coast artists while Kendrick put on Mexicans.
The Lame is not the best rapper in Compton. We know what he’s trying to imply, but he doesn’t want it with Kendrick. And as far as West Coast lyricists, there’s several i know can destroy him, starting with Crooked I, Brotha Lynch Hung, Jayo Felony, Rass Kass, Planet Asia, or ask him about that battle with Danny Myers he abruptly cut off after claiming he had a flight to catch. He got lit up with heat rocks🔥🔥🔥😂😂
Rage baiting to popularize his album. He’s learned well from Kanye. He’ll wake up old one day and there will be a younger possibly more delusional artist claiming the same with his name haha
What? Ye is the man and clearly you’re some white person or a boomer
Maybe he should go back to stripping cuz rapping and fake gang banging ain’t paying the bills anymore. Priscilla Rainey needs her 7 million like 10 years ago 😆
Kendrick is quiet. I mean he could chime in or anyone else? YG would get smoked, Schoolboy? Daylyt? I mean I really wouldn’t mind another clownshow.
This ignorant remark he made woke up the OG lol.. Let us see shall we?? West Coast Rap Artists that PAVED THE DAMN WAY!:
1) DJ Quik
2) 2nd II None
3) Suga Free
4) Tupac
5) Dru Down
6) Nate Dogg
7) C-Bo
8) MC Hammer (goddammit shit Lol)
9) Hi-C
10) Mack 10 & Dubb C
11) Shade Sheist
All not in order of success either, but I had to dig in the crate for them Lmao… Mtfka lost his marbles thinkin he better than Comptons finest DJ Quik who play all his instruments live. If you aint toppin DJ Quik by producing/playin own instruments/rapping/choreographying plus have multiple successful groups under yo belt then sit tf down. Yo last song was Celebration, which had 4 thousand people on it cuz u know it wasnt gone sell just by him bein on it solo. That post really jammed my Glock. 😒😒
Tupac is from the east coast. Baltimore and pretended to be west coast and a thug.
And your father was a closet homosexual that gave birth to you. You’re a butt baby.
What? I swear you vultures are beyond annoying facts hurt your feelings you prefer to push narrative and lies. Tupac was an actor born in NY raised in Baltimore
Man child calm yourself down you just can’t handle facts? Get mental help. Bringing up things not relevant to the conversation. Tupac was from the east coast and a actor.
Guxz swallows male gender fluid. His opinion on anything is irrelevant unless it’s about gay.
This ignorant remark he made woke up the OG lol.. Let us see shall we?? West Coast Rap Artists that PAVED THE DAMN WAY!:
1) DJ Quik
2) 2nd II None
3) Suga Free
4) Tupac
5) Dru Down
6) Nate Dogg
7) C-Bo
8) MC Hammer (goddammit shit Lol)
9) Hi-C
10) Mack 10 & Dubb C
11) Shade Sheist
All not in order of success either, but I had to dig in the crate for them Lmao… Mtfka lost his marbles thinkin he better than Comptons finest DJ Quik who play all his instruments live. If you aint toppin DJ Quik by producing/playin own instruments/rapping/choreographying plus have multiple successful groups under yo belt then sit tf down. Yo last song was Celebration, which had 4 thousand people on it cuz u know it wasnt gone sell just by him bein on it solo. That post really jammed my Glock. 😒😒
Cali rap is rainbow rap. Outside Eazy E you have no one just pretenders a bunch of sus boys. East coast, Chiraq, and south is where real rap resides and the south continues to carry to this day.
Tupac is from Baltimore Maryland that’s the east coast
You forgot Yeat he’s the most popular west coast artist right now. Oregon
Ya 46 and you’re still rapping errrrr…..
Yeat is west coast not Cali but Oregon
Go tell that to planet Asia. Clown.
yall on here commentin back n forth, i hope youre not over 25 hahah
we got the success
Clearly you got issues boomer.
West coast is the gay coast and all they rap gay too!
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