The Game has been teasing his new album for several months with clips of him recording in the studio and more, but the wait will soon be over, according to his latest Instagram post.
On Friday (July 15), the West Coast rap star shared the official cover art and release date for his 10th studio album. Titled Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind, the project is set to drop on August 12 and is executive produced by Hit-Boy, Kanye West, Wack 100 and others.
The cover art finds The Game sitting on one side of a couch on the beach while getting his hair braided by Brittany Sky, with the other end engulfed in flames as he looks at the camera. The 42-year-old rapper also explained to fans in the caption of his post why the album has been delayed.
The Game Talks Nas Co-Signing 'Drillmatic' Album Title & Lil Durk Having It First
“My apologies for the delay but fans sometimes don’t understand how hard it is behind the scenes trying to clear samples on over 30 records & to get publishing splits, agreements, mixes approved, featured artists agreements & a million other things done in order to have a clean, flawless album put together & released,” he wrote.
“What I can guarantee you is that I personally put my heart & soul into this album from beginning to the end & anyone who’s come by my studio or heard this album will tell you that it is everything you expected it to be. Everyone also wanted me to not put 30 songs on my album, which again held us up due to the amount of music I’m pushing out but I felt & always feel my fans deserve more.”
He added, “This date gives me time to properly set up, get visually prepared & present to you another classic. I appreciate all of you for being patient throughout this process with me & I can’t wait for you to hear what we’ve done.”
Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind was originally set to be released on June 17, but was pushed back numerous times. The Game isn’t lying about all the clearances, either. Earlier this month, he revealed JAY-Z cleared seven samples for the album and thanked the Roc Nation boss on Twitter.
As for the album title, the Compton native recently told HipHopDX that Nas — whose 1994 debut Illmatic it pays homage to — gave him his blessing for the name. Game also offered the title to Chicago drill rap star Lil Durk first, although he clearly didn’t take up the offer.
Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind has spawned two singles so far: the Kanye West-assisted “EAZY” and “Violence.” It serves as the follow-up to 2019’s Born 2 Rap, which was billed as The Game’s final album at the time.
This guy has no originality or sense of style whatsoever. He’s a follower, begging everyone to believe his gangster. We don’t. And no, Game is not ‘beasting on these niccas”, sorry, he’s a biter who never got embraced by either side because he’s too feminine.
But still you’re gonna stream his album on August 12
yeah, it called youtube
The only stream he’s getting from me is if I ever bought a physical copy of his album then he’d get a strong piss stream from me. Game still mad that even Nipsey gets more respect than him.
Breh you wrong Game promoted nipsey at the height of his career (lax era) bro Noone in the industry had nipseys back when he first got on. Game put a offical stamp on cuz. If nip was here today he’d dp u for saying such a criminal accusation. They both had each other’s back. I see you never had a friend before.
Guess you forgot that Game has a habit of using people too for clout. Nipsey open for him early in his career and they did a few tracks but after that Game just was on some other shit for years and kept starting drama with everyone else. Meanwhile Nipsey kept grinding solo independently built his own label up and owned his own masters. Nipsey spent his career try to speak knowledge into other while Game was trying to constantly cause conflict and drama around the community. Yeah, Nipsey will always respect the Game for who he is and what he’s done but other than that that’s where they differed. That’s why people respected Nipsey more. Game has spent his whole career imitating and trying to be everyone else just for respect and acceptance while Nipsey gained respect and notoriety through his actions.
If Game had Nipsey’s back then why didn’t he get to work on a Dre track when he was alive? Why didn’t he feature him on more tracks like he did Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock? How come it has to be Nipsey being featured on a Game track instead of the other way around? They all have the same answer, it’s because of Game’s pride/ego and clout that’s why.
And…..it’s still going to the namedropper’s almanac.
Quit hating on the Game. I’m looking forward to this. Produced by Hit Boy. At least it’s not bitch ass Drake!!!!!
That’s still not saying anything. Sometimes in Game’s case it’s better to not say anything at all. He’s over hyped this album “FeatureFillmatic” to the point that it’s destined to fail. If the first song was any indication of the rest of the album then he may as well just go back into retirement and stay there for good. The West has plenty of talent to fill the void in his wake anyways who don’t rely on name dropping and drama popping.
It will be way better than the illmatic album nas drops for sure
RetireHillmatic:Obscurity Vs Decline
A lifetime of hating on QB’s finest continues ….
You’ve been steady hating on this site for a legit 10 plus years, the epitome of an oxygen thief. Go and do what you’re too much of a coward to do with your pathetic miserable life.
He’s 42 and he’s still rappin? Ughhh!
That has nothing to do with it
Shows how much you know about hip hop lyrics dweeb
The amount of haters on here is crazy.
He created them himself tho
Didn’t know he ever personally insulted or met any of these ppl hating on him but y’all can’t keep his damn name out of your mouths. Game living in all your minds rent free.
The funny thing is he thinks there’s people out there waiting to hear this album.
I’m sure Priscilla Rainey is lol….*rubbing her hands together like Birdman*
STFU. Speak for yourself. I’m really anticipating this.
I’d pick game first if there was a current Westcoast draft #yallbuggin
Drillmatic on the way tho!
Shut Up, Bitch!!
LOL
“this album will tell you that it is everything you expected it to be.”
Trash … that’s what I’m expecting.
So yeah, pretty accurate i guess.
I think his butterfly is showing thru his LA tattoo again.
LOL @ that cover though HAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAA!!!!!
‘Oh shorry my apolojeesh for dem delaysh’ boi you couldn’t get a single hit out the whole thing that’s why it’s taken you so long what you think we dummies here? #WillListenToTrashIt
How many executive producers? He’s now namedropping on the credits too lol
Why even give a release date when you don’t have all your samples clear and mixing done?…….. goofy
Like people are waiting to hear his shitty album, And of any artist worthy of naming their album close to NAS classic album, you GaMe are not that person
I know it will be fire. Thats all that matters
So much hating. I’ll take this over most of the other nonsense that is way more popular. Drake, Travis Scott, Future, Kanye, etc. sell gangbusters and you take your time to hate on this instead?
Really Excited to hear Games new album. 1 of my favorite MC’s
it would be good to hear any features on the come up.
I can’t wait for the album, its always so nice to hear a game album with more verses from features than from the man himself.
Slim Shady should drop a heater on this date for all that yappin he did.
Game straight beasting on these niccas!