The Game Taps Kanye West For First ‘Gangsta Grillz’ Mixtape

The Game is set to reunite with Kanye West on his first-ever Gangsta Grillz mixtape with DJ Drama.

The Compton rapper made the announcement during an interview with Real 92.3 L.A.’s The Cruz Show, revealing that he and Ye will release a sequel to their classic Late Registration collaboration “Crack Music.”

“[It’s called] ‘Crack Music 2,'” he said. “[With the original song], Ye called me to the studio and I rolled up. He wanted me to do a verse and get on the hook, but I had some fine shit in the car so I was like, ‘That’s that crack music, n-gga!’ and I left.

“But the fans always was like, Man, you should have put a verse on ‘Crack Music,’ so we redid it.”

The Game’s Gangsta Grillz debut is titled Every Movie Needs a Trailer and will be produced entirely by Mike & Keys, the L.A. production duo who worked closely with the late, great Nipsey Hussle.

“It’s gonna be good, man,” he told J Cruz. “It’s my first time doing a Gangsta Grillz. [DJ Drama and I] always talked about it over the years … [We recorded it in] two days. 19 songs from scratch.”

In addition to Kanye West, the mixtape will feature fellow Left Coast lyricist Mozzy and R&B crooner Jeremih. The Game said in the same interview that the project would drop last Friday (November 28), but he has yet to announce an updated release date.

UPDATE: Every Movie Needs a Trailer will now be released this Friday (December 5).

Every Movie Needs a Trailer will serve as a precursor to The Game’s long-awaited album The Documentary 3, which was supposed to drop this year to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the series but will now arrive in early 2026.

“We coming top of the year … January, February — something like that,” he told 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 continued: “So with my albums and my legacy, it’s like I’m in my third act. My priorities and the things that I love and care about are shifting. I care less about material things — yeah, I have nice things but I don’t put my energy into those things.

“So with this album, 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.”