While fans wait for The R.E.D. Album to drop, it’s clear that Game hasn’t just been sitting on his ass, twiddling his thumbs. Rather, Compton’s name-droppingest emcee has teamed with DJ Skee to release Hoodmorning, in hopes that it’ll satiate fans’ hunger for more of that West Coast goodness before the real thing hits the shelves.
The title track 
finds Game rhyming with a new, raspy, delivery—but with the same take-no-prisoners, bi-polar approach, taking shots at Amber Rose while apologizing to Wiz Khalifa (who shows up on the mixtape alongside B.o.B. on “Standin On a Corner” ) in the same breath. Next is “Drug Test,” which sounds like a Detox leftover featuring Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. (Is Game Auto-tuned on this thing?) Either way, the plodding production overwhelms at times, with Dre and Game trading some at-times robotic flows. Snoop checks in briefly, but with a few borrowed bars from “Gin and Juice.”
Boi-1da comes through with a major assist on “Monsters in my Head,” a track that has Game getting a bit more introspective with his rhymes. “I’m sitting here watching my daughter being born / Feel like I should thank God that nothing went wrong / Back in my days I was headed straight for the graveyard / Runnin’ from school because enemies never stay far / Wearin’ my colors watchin’ colors chasin’ after my older brothers / Cause they were always in this shit, good thing we had different mothers.” Verses like these illustrate Game’s considerable story-telling prowess, which he too-rarely accesses.
On “25 to Life” Game uses the extended metaphor of a prison yard to assess his career. The stabbing keys on “Out of Towner” elicit memories of Game’s “Westside Story,” while the soft Jay-Z dis, “Uncle Otis” is pause-worthy. Features from Redman (“Red” ) and Yelawolf (“Rough” ) aren’t world-beaters, but they keep things interesting enough to ride out the rest of the project.
Hoodmorning is a mixed bag, but for the most part, consists of cuts that are above average for a mixtape project, and probably narrowly missed the cut for The R.E.D. Album. Practically speaking, if these are the throwaway tracks from R.E.D., then fans should expect quite an album when it drops.
DX Consensus: EP-worthy.
Listen To Game’s DJ Skee & Mars Present: Hoodmorning [No Typo]: Candy Coronas
I really liked it
this was one of the better mixtapes i have heard in quite some time, i really am looking forward to The R.E.D. album now after hearing this.
Another hot tape from Game and Skee. Been bumping Game/Skee tapes since way back in 2005.
I actually really liked the song ROUGH, the mixtapes pretty dope. Not feeling the dre, snoop song..guess thats why it got put into this mixtape.
Hot Music for free….damn thats the reason Game is the shit…
i like the game but this mixtape is shit
I thought this was TERRIBLE, compared to Purp & Patron
This shit has better songs than Watch The Throne so far
wigga please lol… go find a music taste somewhere
classik tape bring on theRED album
Games doing some work lately nice
i give this mixtape 4.5 out of 5 its pretty cool
for some reason im really feelin that track with him and gucci
5.ou
so dope
Shit does slap.. It will hold me over until Aug 23rd!
“Purp and Patron/Hangover” hat more substance. This bored me after the first time hearing it.
I Like Purp & Patron/Hangover Better… But This Is Still Good
better than Purp & Patron/Hangover!
i can tell that slava kuperstein iz a game hater. “drug test” sounds like a detox leftover??? the “soft” jay z diss is pause-worthy??? comptons “name droppingest” emcee??? slava talked about this mixtape like he/she didnt want it to be good so he/she criticized the bad thingz about the tape and tried to make the good thingz about the tape sound bad. really read this review and peep how the reviewer basically said that the songz are above average for a mixtape but he/she didnt say anything good about the songz. slava needs to keep his/her reviews real. TELL US WHY YOU HATE THE GAME?
Game is the Best
Game is on fire! you can hear the hunger and anger in his voice hes back! and coming for blood!! no pun intended
purp and patron and hangover was way better and had more replay value
Mixtape is better than most albums! FIRE!
If the Red Album is fire, then Game is no doubt artist of the year for 2011. He’s tearing the hip hop world up right now
mixtape is better than most albums hear it is the west cop that red album august 23rd
It’s a 5* for a mixtape
5 nigga
Belee dat
few throwaway tracks but everything else is on point! 17 good songs on it!
Monsters in my head is a classic song but DJ Skee fucked it up by changing the pitch.
google Mosters in My head to get the original version and hear how it is meant to be heard.
heres a hiphopDX link to monsters in my head…
https://hiphopdx.com/index/singles/id.14177/title.game-monsters-in-my-head
oh yea and fuck you slava
Terrible to see how one of my favorite rappers fell off so badly.
Fire!!!
Skyzoo and Elzhi dropped the best mixtapes by far.
R.I.P JIMMY….. TRUE STORY…. G’S UP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayxtwhMxY8I
It’s a tough call between this and P & P.
Game forever
C.C is good but his best mixtapes are still Black wallstreet journal vol 1 & You know what it is series (specially 3 & 4)
Theyre from 4/5 yrs back when Game was at his best
RED Album August 23rd
out of this world sickness from The Game
amazing.
Best Mixtape I heard in a while.. better than Watch The Throne lol
Best project i heard in long time… better than Sorry for the wait… for original concepts, raw lyrics, style and energy. Great mixing, outrageous beats… creative too… I luved it… GAME fan since certified gangstas came out witj Jimmy on the track
This was good enough to be an album so i wonder what the red album is going to be like…
http://tdotfromdabronx.tumblr.com/
watch the throne drop ni**as kill themselves
REDDDDD.. hope its not as disappointing as Watch the throne
best mixtape of hte year
dissapointed purp & patron and brake lights were a lot better but theres a handful of good songs on here tack list for red album looks kind of weak 2
Horrible
How does this quick pasted, unconcepted thing get better then watch the throne.
Cause it’s actually rap. Not to faggots going on a gay odyssey together.
if gay is talking about white america then so it should be talking about being a good father and the violence with the youth you must be crazy
such a lame follow-up
4 Stars … Way more than I expected! Some of he songs are ahhh but Game comes nice pretty much on all the tracks.
So good!
NO DJ VERSION IS OUT!!!
http://www.xclusiveszone.net/2011/08/mixtape-game-%E2%80%93-hood-morning-no-typo-candy-coronas-no-dj/
Purp & Patron is better, but that’s because there’s more tracks to like.
I liked brake lights and purp and patron better than this, this is only iight
CRAZY!! Better than most artist albums..Lot of folks will be seeing red after this one!!
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1. “No beef with Jay” “one blood”
2. “Got a hook from Faith, no verse from Jay
I guess on Westside Story he thought I spit in his face” “Westside Story”
3. “Dre told me he ain’t doin “Detox,” this his only run
Ma$e comin back, and Hovi done” “No more fun and games”
4 “It’s “Me & My Girlfriend” like 2Pac and them
Jay-Z and Beyonce, or Bobby and Whitney “Special”
5. “Rap critics politickin, wanna know the outcome
“Ready to Die” “Reasonable Doubt” and “Doggystyle” in one “Dreams”
6. “Make the club R.O.C. without Timberland boots “Higher”
7.”I was gassed up, Murder Inc., Roc-A-Fella passed up”
8. “It took me a little while but I am now understandin
Jay ****ed up in the first round when he picked olowankandi” “Memp Bleek Iz”
9. “Oh, that boy colder than Hova unless he sober” “300 Bars”
10. “And ain’t nobody tryin to take Beyonce from Jay
But I know a ***** named Superhead he ****ed back in the day” Wouldnt Get Far”
11.”Took you to award shows, there go Jay right there”
“One Night”
12.”Bangin “The Black Album,” track #1
she like that Jay ****, that’s her favorite” “Around The World”
13. “Behind the back to Nas he alley oop to Jigga” “Why U hate The Game”
14. “Niqqas show me love in the hood like i was HOV down Flushing” “State Yo Name”
15. “The day Jay retire I’ma park next to the throne, in a Maybach on gold wires, yeah “Hands On The Pump”
16. “Cuz he know Jay-Z departed
And these other rap labels know don’t feed they artists
Talkin blueprint **** you got three garages
Gettin money off Roc like little E and carter”
17. “And 2Pac was in jail the day you called to hit him up
I wouldn’t be outside 40/40 bumpin ‘Jigga What'”
18.”I’m the king, and you better respect it
All I need is Beyonce, and a Roc-a-fella necklace”
19. “I’m the golden boy, and I’m making Hova noise
Got the whole world clapping, just like the Nolia Boys”
20. “I told ’em bomp, slow down baby
Got to get this **** firm like Foxy, NaS and AZ
She said ‘**** you,pay me
So I left her in AZ
That’s what I get for letting her listen to my Jay-Z”
21. “*****, I’m number one, motherfukka bar none
Who else kick knowlegde outside of Hova and the God Son”
22. “U gon make me/ make Jay lose his cool” “Feel It In The Air”
23. “Too much West coast dikc lickn, remember Jay-Z? “1-800-Homicide”
24. “No Em, no Dre, I’m the hottest since Jay” “Get Up”
25. “Cause I’m the man behind the Roc like Kanye West”
26.”A pimp like 50, the niqqa to leave you broke ma
6 in the mornin, you stretchin on the sofa
singin ain’t no niqqa like Foxy Brown and Hova” “Compton to Fillmoe”
27. “I’m runnin the ROC, not Jay, Dame Dash of Hoffa” “Jackin 4 Beats”
28. “Who the fuk holdin me? i was just waitin ’til HOVA leave
wit my eyes on the thrown that belong to me” “Round Here Freestyle”
29. “yeah its me and young cass til hov come back” “Aim Ya Gunz”
30. “Throw Jay-z in the pot, mix em with ren
or O.J on the rocks, mix em with gin
whatchu got? the westcoast riding again” “82 Days”
31. “i found out it was a hard knock life without asking Jay” “Duck Down”
32. “Fake king of new york, U aint Jay z” “soundscan”
33. “Me, Em and 50 racin’ this rap siht is basic I followed that Jay siht” “We Aint”
34. “The kings comin’, no I’m not Jay-Z” “One Blood Remix”
35. “Not the rap martyr, or the second rap Carter” “for My gangstaz”
36. “niqqa I’m about a dollar, what the fuk is 50 Cent?
When Jay said it, I didn’t know what it meant” “100 Bars”
37. “used to push that rock like Jay Hov” “Red Bandana”
38. “then this marcy-project niqqa came and stole the crown” “Im a soldier”
39. “But Kanye and Hova killed it without a doubt” “Just a lil Bit freestyle”
40. “Who had the hottest chick in the game, wearin they chain
Mr. H to the Izzo, Nas and Hurricane” “too Much”
41. ” cuz ain’t nobody movin units but Jay, pimp Juice and Us” – Down 4 my *****s freestyle
43. “I used to have visions of retiring like Jigga” “Du Rags
44. “He in a vest with a hoodrat from Marcy with a tattoo of Jay-Z name on her chest” “Its So Hard”
45. “Im classic like Detox & Blueprint 2” “Get Yo Money”
46.”Yall thought it was over when Hova retired” “Get Yo Money”
47. “Make the world feel like the niqqas before 2pac Shakur Christopher Wallace & Shawn Corey” “Dont Push Me…”
48. “… He aint teach Jigga how to rhyme” “Juice freestyle”
49. “Im going to same place Jay-z went Fredrico & Pico” “100 Bars”
50. “Hov retired but Compton still pushin Roc” “On & On”
51. “I came to see chicks shake they ass like Beyonce so let me be Hov 4 a min.”
52. “All I gotta do is hit her wit a Jay-Z line like u deserve to be my sunshine”
53. “Biggie Smalls is the illest so is pac Jay retired i wonder if nas gon drop” “Unbeliveable freestyle”
54. “i kno they sayin y u gotta mention Jay” “State Yo Name”
55. “First Jay & Beyonce then Nas & Kelis” “A Week Ago Part 2″
56.”u 36 And U Still Rappin Uhh, Im 26 And Homie So Iz Da Dubz” “one Blood”
57.”So I reconciled my differences like he did with Jigga” Game on ‘Hustlers’
58. “Im ready to die Without a reasonable doubt” “The Documentary”
59. “In ’99 i studied +The Chronic+ inside out,
a Doggystyle for breakfast, lunch was Reasonable Doubt ” “im A Soldier freestyle”
60. “Shouldnt been influenced by Calvin Broadus, Nasir Jones & Shawn Corey” “Pain In My Life Remix”
61. Yo Jay what it do niqqa, i done rocked enough fellas,to be u niqqa,i got the 40/40,they my 2 jigga’s”
Tell me that whack fuck ain’t on Jay’s dick.
Monsters in My Head & Rough should have been on RED, and the album has leaked it is sick still buying it
i hope the red album is better i have been waiting so long to hear it haha. monsters in my head was prob the best song idk i just hope he isnt trying to hard to sound like something he is not the reason i always liked the game cuz he can bring back old school west coast rap but in a modern sounding way. LAX was my shit idc who didnt like it i played LAX til my cd broke lol
L.A.X. !!! agreed bro
i like that song with red
Why the FUCK has he got monsters in my head on this mixtape and NOT the Album.. Big mistake, I just dont get artists sometimes
cosign
cosign
crazy
Narrowly misses mixtape of the year behind “Purp & Patron” and “Dreamchasers”
Imagine how good RED album will be
@suggamatic that was an excellent but funny description..lol
Hoodmorning(No Typo):Candy Coronas is a much more stronger mixtape than California Republic (IMO), more hip-hip/rap songs, not these club songs like on the California Republic. hope Jesus Piece is a hip-hop/rap album not a club/rap album like the rest of these mainstream rappers.