The Game has never been shy about taking shots at other artists, but the Compton rapper has admitted that his recent disses of Eminem had an ulterior motive.
In an interview with DJ Vlad, The Game said that he went at Eminem on the song “The Black Slim Shady” because he was mad at Dr. Dre.
“Throwing shots at Eminem and beefing with Eminem, it was just me being upset with Dr. Dre,” The Game admitted. “Dr. Dre can’t out-rap me, so I just went at Em, just because that’s just how I get sometimes.
“But it’s always competitive. It ain’t like I’m gonna see Em and be like, ‘What’s up now?!’ It’s Em, you know what I’m saying? And Em took his shots on a record that dropped, and yo, Em is a funny guy.”
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The Game has spoken about his issues with Dr. Dre before. In a 2022 interview on Drink Champs following the release of his single “Eazy,” he said that Kanye West “did more for me in the last two weeks than [Dr.] Dre did for me my whole career.”
It was a statement he later qualified, though he did not disavow it.
The former Aftermath signee also admitted he was “hurt” by the fact that he wasn’t asked to appear in the 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show, which was headlined by Dre and featured Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige, plus special guests 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak.
“The real reason I wasn’t on the Super Bowl is because I’m not a ‘safe’ artist,” he said on the I Am Athlete podcast several months later. “You don’t know what Game gon’ do when he get up there. They went with the ‘safe’ artists.”
“I feel like this: the Super Bowl is in L.A. It’s a Dr. Dre Super Bowl, but it is JAY-Z [whose company partnered with the NFL on the show],” he continued.
“But JAY-Z understands the dynamics of West Coast Hip Hop very well, and I don’t think JAY-Z would’ve had a problem if Dre would’ve said, ‘We bringing Game on the Super Bowl.’”
Such pussy reasoning and logic. Oh I can’t attack Dre lyrically for not inviting me to the Super Bowl, so I’ll diss Marshall to get to him. LMAO. Sociopath!
Um, let’s not be hypocrites here. 50 has been doing that very same thing for years. His beefs with Jada and Fat Joe started just like that. But, I agree with his Em beef being absolutely unnecessary. I’m sure if he asked, Em would’ve just given him another feature. Game definitely should’ve just handled that situation like a man and called Dre.
This lame as mf is SUCH a little b!tch bro it’s unreal. Ur almost 50 bro get on bi polar meds and change
In other words…. I didn’t get the attention I so desperately crave from the Super Bowl halftime show so I tried to get attention in another way. If this genius analyzed the situation, he’d realize that the least successful person on that show has sold several millions more than he has.
the NFL has a strict policy about not allowing strippers to perform at Halftime Shows.. there’s no way they’d allow the game to perform at a Superbowl 😂 in all seriousness, whatever his reason for the diss was, it was awful. He should probably stop talking about it now
FACTS LMAO
NFL would likely make an exception for a male stripper. Remember, in the NFLs own words, “the NFL is GAY!”. And you’re gay if you care about it.
Game felt excluded and threw a tantrum. What else is new. Game a clown for real.
What a man-child. Gets mad at 1 person and for whatever reason (he’s a pussy) goes after Eminem. Let The Game play his games.
Reality check. Game is not one of Dr. Dre’s success stories. One hot album, then off the label. That’s like asking why Truth Hurts wasn’t part of the Super Bowl show. Grow up goofy.