The Game is a having a grand old west coast party and everyone’s invited! That seems to be the idea behind California Republic, the rap J.T.’s mammoth new offering that crams over 30 professional practicing rappers and 2 Chainz on to 24 tracks. It creates an intense and extended experience, and what the mixtape lacks in tight focus it makes up for with a successful R.S.V.P. list that incluces Drake, Rick Ross and Snoop. If The Game was looking to remind the world that he’s still relevant, he’s done it by association.
For his part, The Game continues to pack his raps with references to other artists. He kicks things off with something of an ode to Drake on “God Speed” with Mele and then follows it up with the Just Blaze-crafted “Red Bottom Boss” with Rick Ross that has him addressing his grievances with Jay-Z with honesty: “Twenty-second mixtape/ Half of ’em dis tapes/ But fuck who I was dissing ’cause I never made a mistake/ Bleek got what he deserved, Jay I might have been tripping/ I was falling, I was slipping/ He was Jordan, I thought I was Pippen/ He was winning, I was losing/ He threw a jab, I started bruising/ So I threw in the towel just to separate our confusion.” But being The Game, he then can’t help adding,”‘Ivy Blue’ was beautiful/ Me saying that’s unusual/ That’s just the father in me/ Don’t think I’m trying to be cool with you.”
It’s early on in California Republic that Game invokes Jay-Z’s name, but the tape isn’t another installment in Jayceon’s fiery and explosive mixtape vault. The bulk of the tracks are content to aim for a comfort zone of boasts about cash and sneakers affixed to attempts to coin club-friendly hooks. It’s a blend that doesn’t always suit The Game – he’s at his best when he raps from the gut. So on the Neptunes produced “When My Niggas Come Home,” he sounds sincere as he kicks a simple scenario about welcoming back a fresh-out-of-chokey compadre. (If you were wondering, Game sent his pal a copy of Superhead’s book while he was locked up.) It’s this rap-first, think-later mentality that also makes “She Want To Have My Baby” entertain, as he rants on rap groupies and coins barbs like, “You don’t look like your Twitter avatar anyway.”
The lack of vitriol in Game’s raps leave California Republic as a curious release. He’s not ruffling feathers and intimidating other artists as he has in the past; instead, it sounds like The Game is asserting that he wants to be part of the modern scene, not destroy it.
DX Consensus: “Just a Mixtape”
not feeling it.
Game is always switching up his style to sound like someone else
This mixtape is crazy! Better than some albums out right now!!!
Highly entertaining
damn he still on jay-z dick
Where
Is
Kolexxxion?
if jay mike game you sure as hell aint pippen you not even on the squad
“If The Game was looking to remind the world that he’s still relevant, he’s done it by association”
dx THREW GAME UNDER THE BUS
Thought it wasn’t to bad
Overall a good mixtape with some bangers in it.
Some of these track shouldve been on red and the others never shouldve even been made lol
CO-SIGN!!
Dope tape, too much hate on this one
I dont get the feature complain…. its a mixtape, aint you supposed to make the music you wanna make?? ITS FREE MUSIC! shut up and enjoy it thank you game!
CO-SIGN!
There are some bangers on this muh fucka
Take out the Drake and jay cole style tracks and this shit is 5*
Shit bangs, stop hatin 4*
Good tape but dude needs to stick to his style, thats wat got him there….
HE HAS NO STYLE OF HIS OWN
SO true! ^
Wheres kendrick?? Black hippie? …2 chains? Drake? cmon game…
God Speed was the best song then roll my shit
Game always gettin good reviews on dx
He needs to work with nas and ye again, too much ymcmb and mmg. Definately not what i wanna see
How are him and weezy so tight??
because hes the reason that wayne is a blood
Game obviously has dirt on wayne, hes even said on tracks that they both were on that hes the reason he is a blood
what blood set does wayne belong to? none.
real gangbanging rappers like Snoop(20 street crips) and Game(Ceader block Piru) actually have REAL sets, fake bloods and crips, donot
Still the best from the west, dude goin too ham
Classic mixtape
Classic Mixtape
Westcoast King!!!
LMAOOO:
“If The Game was looking to remind the world that he’s still relevant, he’s done it by association”
dx THREW GAME UNDER THE BUS
real talk
I agree with that.. mixtape would have been better without all these new people and 100 features
Dope tape in my opinion. Why complain and bitch about free music.
Why haven’t you guys reviewed the new E-40 yet? Cuz he ain’t on a major?
yesssir
Game greatest rapper ever of course after Drake
you are a dip shit.. best rapper ever? After DRAKE? DRAKE? The guy who sounds exactly the same in every song! You are a dick rider..
“and 2 Chainz”…. you’re killing me DX!! haha.
ass ass ass damn shame ruining his legacy make bullshit the niggas on his tracks go harder
NIGGA WASHED UP. HE BETTA GO BACK AT SLURPING COCKS. ITS YMCMB TIME.
13 LETTERS YMCMB OVOXO MMG
funny cause when game completely sells out and signs to YMCMB in a year your gonna be on his dick just like with lil wayne
Game!!!! He killed the first two tracks.
2 Chainz is not even a professional rapper lol! The reviewer just shat all over him!
yea he definitly oded 2chainz like he aint been in playaz circle for how long now
he should focus on quality not quantity.
The lack of vitriol in Game’s raps leave “California Republic” as a curious release.
yo i kind digs the game thing man this superstar is of the hook he is like matches to petrol he is blazin
bagnin
idk what Game’s mindset was with this one.. Kendrick Lamar the new king of the west coast, Game’s gotta stay on that grimy shit and forget about catchy hook, lackluster beats and features. 3/5
king of the west….this is good for free
this shit was hot from the start and grows on you
wish game would stop dissing jay one minute and kissing ass the next just do one or the other we all know jay is a better mc and that game would knock jay the fuck out without trying so make ur mind up and decide if ur gonna fuck the camel or fuck him up!!
That wasnt a diss just stating FACTS!
Compared to Breaklights, P n P, the hangover, hood morning it is a lil lacking.
That said it is still praly better then most albums and mix tapes that will be released this year…and that is sayin alot.
Its in the vine of P n P, gotta take some tracks for what they are or just delete them.
Like all his free albums there are AMAZING TRACKS that I just dont understand why they dont make it on to a album he got like 2 hip hop classics just in the 5 I have named.
and like all music you gotta let it grow on ya listen to it for more then 3 spins, until you clearly hear the rhymes…in all music for all artist, its expression an art form not chocolate milk.
G.A.M.E. still uh BEAST! hate it or love it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K73jAd8aQVc&feature=relmfu swedish rapper M.Z
If this negga ride my dick like Nas does,I think I can do somethin for his career.
That shit makes no sense, your fu*king stupid! Back to school for you dumb ass…..
Naw Jay lets just let him WATCH THE THRONE again like we did to them YMCMB homos at the grammys!!!LMAO All I make is G.O.O.D. Music!!!
Best mixtape out!!!!
Straight up stole that mixtape cover from The Jacka! Tight mix though, production is bumpin’.
I miss the days when Game didn’t rely so heavy on features, like pre 2007. I have no interest in this shit.
Blame it on the state of hiphop. This is what every commercial rapper duz now a days. Heavily featured mixtapes or albums. We sometimes get ep’s that only showcase the artist, but it’s becoming more rare as time goes by. The only rappers who really dont use features, are up & coming.
I miss the old Game. I really do.
Unfortunetly, he managed to disappoint me again. For me, Doctor’s Advocate is his number one work, even better than The Documentry. Since then he’s been getting worse and worse when it comes to musical quality and artistical coherency. Shit just doesn’t up somehow.
This tape is a typical example. Tons of unnecessary features, half of them are nobody, other half is on it just for the hype. Why waste a lot of Neptunes and Cool & Dre beats for a free mixtape (same goes for A-list features)? On top of it, why name it to California Republic, since it has nobody on it who is from actually Cali? A nicely fucked up concepct, again.
Game should focus on redefining himself, cause this won’t end up nice career-wise. Lets go back to his roots and that Doctor’s Advocate sound, cause thats Game’s comfort zone, where he goes HAM.
I’m not saying he is not great still, but he is far-far away from his best. And lets face it, next move is the contract with YMCMB, to make things worse. So I’m afraid we’re witness losing one of the finest from the new era history of the West Coast
As a game fan I was very pleased. He gave listeners every kind of track, every kind of flow, beat, etc. He went hard at times, he slowed it down. This will be better than almost every album this year. All the features are for the fans thats what people want. No complaints 5 star Game
features are not what the people want. I’m a Game fan, but if I get a Game mixtape/album, I want to hear Game not 30 complete nobodies, 40 trash pop rappers, and 50 r&b singers taking up 99% of the album while game raps for about 2 minutes in total.
Fucking Fantastic!
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STANDARD INDUSTRY: pink mohawks glammerous glasses music called niggaz in paris put rihanna on hooks techno beats and auted lyrics. THE GAME CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC HONESTLY! U CANT MAKE THUGEED OUT MUSIC WIT R&B HOOKS. SORRY CROOKED I WHERE U AT????
awesome
yo there is snitch on the corner blocks getting niggas knocked so hold the stash till the coke price drop.
Fair review I suppose. Anyone else still waiting on a Mac Lethal Irish Goodbye review?
I didn’t like it. Check out my blog to see why
Throwaways!
quantity > quality
SOOO WOOO
dis is dope
not good
this dude is such a dick rider WAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKK
fucking dope !! game is king of the motherfucking west coast !!!
What a weak, forgettable collection of songs
Not a good mixtape, sorry Game its the truth, be you (2005-2009, some of R.E.D Album are good but not like his past albums) not like these other mainstream rappers that are fucking up hip-hop. hope Jesus Piece is gonna be a hip-hop/rap album not a club/rap album like California Republic was, sorry there where only a handful of tracks that are ‘good’ but the rest is garbage, BE GAME FROM COMPTON NOT GAME THAT’S TRYING TO BE LIKE TESE OTHER MAINSTREAM FAGGOTS
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