Hate it or love it, The Game loves to talk. During the rollout of Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind, his tenth studio album after his “final album” Born 2 Rap, the 42-year-old rapper has been making grand statements about himself. If Game isn’t challenging Eminem to a Verzuz because “50 Cent can’t rap,” then he’s doubling down that he’s a better rapper than the anointed Rap God.
“When have you ever heard Eminem in a club?” he told All The Smoke. “When have you ever heard it in the locker room? I don’t hear Eminem in the streets.” If that didn’t get people’s attention, then try Game boasting that his 30-track album has “no skips” and it’s the best rap album of 2022. The name, a hybrid of the trending Chicago and New York drill movement and the name of Nas’ debut album Illmatic, sets high expectations for Game’s “flex album,” comparing his recent output with Hit-Boy to that of Nas and DJ Premier, Swizz Beatz and DMX and JAY-Z and Just Blaze.
On the release date of Drillmatic, after several pushbacks due to sample clearances and personal issues that Game was transparent about, executive producer Hit-Boy posted he produced six songs. One of those songs was the polarizing “The Black Slim Shady,” a 10-minute diss track leaked early because of Drillmatic’s international release. It’s Game’s blatant attempt to bait Eminem into battling him, causing yet another distraction from the totality of a new Game album. The significance of a diss record using key pop culture moments from his greatest hits that he’s clearly heard before is narcissism at its finest. Game wants Eminem to acknowledge him so badly for his lyrical ingenuity that it’s left Em fans wondering if it is even worth it to respond.
It must be frustrating to be a Game fan, constantly reminded of your favorite rapper’s ties with Dr. Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent and how he doesn’t have a good relationship with them anymore. It’s a wound that’s been open ever since he dropped his diss track “300 Bars” in 2005 after 50 Cent kicked him out of G-Unit on Hot 97. Interviewers can’t help but ask him about the past, and Game can’t help but retell his version of history to make him look like the victim and the rapper who should be bigger. Drillmatic arrives with all the controversy and antics Game brings upon himself. But musically, Drillmatic is better curated than most of his recent work with some of Game’s most focused and replayable songs in recent memory, even with the long runtime.
Here’s what works on Drillmatic. Game likes to drop a lot of songs for his fans, which clocks Drillmatic at about two hours. This is his second longest album compared to The Documentary 2 + 2.5’s 40 tracks from the collector’s edition. Give all the credit to Hit-Boy, who takes on the executive producer role as Dom Kennedy did on Born 2 Rap, for threading all the beats together into a sonic story. The beats flow from one to another, adding a pace that takes the listener through moods made for Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and Miami.
Outside of Hit-Boy’s contributions, Game taps Big Duke, DJ Paul, Bongo, London on Da Track, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Mike Zombie and others. He knows when to call in his producer favors, resulting in some insane verses over these beats by NBA YoungBoy (“O.P.P.”), Pusha T and 2 Chainz (“No Man Falls”), G Herbo (“Chrome Slugs & Harmony”), Dreezy (“Fortunate”), Twista (“Rubi’s Rose”), A$AP Rocky (“Money Cash Clothes,”) and Big Sean (“Stupid”).
Even without the promotional hype of DJ Khaled when he drops a new single, Game can utilize his relationships to create Khaled-esque collabs that are better than the originator. 2012’s Jesus Piece was evidence of that, and on Drillmatic, Game makes interesting pairings such as Kanye West, Dreezy and Chiller (“Fortunate”) sound seamless. He gets the bedroom jam right by linking Twista up with Jeremih for “Rubi’s Rose.” Khaled himself makes an appearance on “Nikki Beach” with French Montana and Tory Lanez, though the results aren’t as favorable.
Game also shows massive respect to the culture that built him, including using samples from JAY-Z and DMX, Eazy-E, Ice-T, Mobb Deep, Tela, 8Ball & MJG, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Janet Jackson. In his mind, paying homage to the past by recreating classics with his own spin should strengthen his argument that he’s the best rapper alive. It’s a risk that doesn’t always pay off because people like songs such as Bone Thugs’ “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” and JAY-Z’s “Change the Game” exactly how they are – fans don’t always need a “Gamified” version of them.
Hov’s “Song Cry” gets the most use in a three-song stretch (“World Tours,” “Save The Best For Last,” “A Father’s Prayer”) through samples and interpolated lyrics. It’s unclear how old “World Tours” is, but Game does something akin to Meek Mill’s “Letter to Nipsey” and J Stone’s “The Marathon Continues,” writing a letter to Nipsey Hussle and catching him up on life.
“They killed Slim 400, stabbed Drakeo,” he raps. “I’ve been out the way tho/In Calabasas, trying to lay low/Yeah, this can’t be the shit our grandmothers prayed for.” Along with “World Tours,” “A Father’s Prayer,” where Game gets vulnerable in an open letter to his daughter, is some of his best bars on the project, illustrating a fractured father-daughter dynamic filled with emotion and love.
And of course it wouldn’t be a Game album without him name-dropping his celebrity friends, even if it’s to the detriment of the album. On Drillmatic, there are times where he’s really forcing them to work in rhyme. “Tryna ride a wave/but these Frank Oceans so choppy” and “Bombs goin’ off all around me, I got Durk in mind/I usually spaz, but Beyoncé had to re-work thеm lines,” he says on “Heart vs. Mind.” How about “I Waka, Flocka, Flame/Hit yo block up” on “Save the Best for Last?” Or another cringeworthy line on “Universal Love:” “Nothing to hide when ya living your pride/If gay is happy, I’m Isaiah Rashad.”
While it’s simply too long to list all of what Game’s mentions, some of the wildest things are he could’ve signed to Roc-A-Fella if he wasn’t hardheaded, anything is possible if Drake has braids, he and 50 Cent never did a show together, and he almost tried to rob Fabolous for his jewelry. Game could benefit from an editor or a confidant to tell him to not say that or maybe keep that story to himself. There’s a fine line between oversharing and burning bridges because you exposed them.
On any of Game’s albums, he wants the listener to remember he’s famous, has been in rooms with some legends and is aware of current events. But at this stage in his career, he’s using it as a crutch. This obsession of his place in Hip Hop has gotten to the point where it’s taking away from the genius of his actual good songs such as “O.P.P.,” “La La Land,” “How Far I Came,” “Start from Scratch II” (a sequel to “Start from Scratch” on The Documentary), “Fortunate,” “Money Cash Clothes” and “A Father’s Prayer.” But because he floods his lyrics with topical names and references, it convolutes the concept of Drillmatic. If the first disc of The Documentary 2 is peak 2010s Game with the right mix of features, then Drillmatic is trying hard to embody that. There’s plenty of substance peppered in, but listeners will have to skip around to find it.
Review: The Game Jogs Through A Marathon On 'Born 2 Rap'
For all of Game’s posturing, he seems to back it up with his ability to rap and the flex of having an indisputable classic with the 2x-platinum The Documentary. That album changed a lot of lives, and his career is tied to so much of the West Coast rap scene that Kendrick Lamar and Nipsey Hussle are forever indebted to him for putting them on. But what’s concerning is his current identity crisis, clearly reaching his creative limits by borrowing flows and arguably sounding like other rappers on select songs on Drillmatic.
When Game does decide to retire, it should be at a time where he no longer needs to validate his legacy. Game can’t leave rap alone now, but his transition from trendsetter to trend hopper makes it seem like he’s chasing rather than leading.
REPEAT ME
classic gane
Not as bad as I thought it would be, but the constant name dropping is just such a bummer. He sounds like he is trying to sound like other rappers, very often. He doesn’t do a bad job imitating it but I don’t think he needs to. Or maybe he does?
Them Eminem diss was weird but hey, it’s gonna get him clicks.
Haven’t heard the full album yet cause I keep replaying some songs. Some of the hardest shit I’ve ever heard… It’s a shame the Em diss is overshadowing the rest of the album.
Good album definitely worth listening to. The diss is for sure the attention of the album which is a good and bad thing because em stans will give album a bad review without even listening to it. So before your feelings get hurt listen to the album.
Most stans don’t care about game I’m a game fan so I do but most of us don’t it was a good album but it’s no 1992
Last 5 albums, let’s be objective. Who comes 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th.
Eminem:
Recovery
Marshall mothers 2
Revival
Kamikaze
Music to be murdered by
Jay Z
Kingdom Come
American Gangster
Blueprint 3
Magna Carta holy grail
4:44
Game
Jesus piece
Documentary 2/2.5
1992
Born to rap
Drillmatic
Nas
Life is good
Nasir
KD 1
KD 2
Magic
Game doesn’t have a bad album, most people wish they can sound the way he does this far in their rap careers.
A giant mess of songs with no rhyme of reason that has Game mimicking the flows of whoever is featured on any given song.
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Game hittin on all cylinders wit Drillmatic. Solid production, great features, definitely for the streets. No two songs sound the same. Great energy throughout.
I don’t feel like this is peak Game, hes reachin.. and you gotta be peakin to come at Em.
Better then all rap out now
Better then s add lol rap out now
Game’s FeatureFillmatic album is still based on him using other artist’s flows, songs, concepts or constantly name-dropping them. It’s a shame when his tactics for trying to attract attention for his music actually overshadow his talent but that’s exactly what’s happening here with this album. This could’ve been a we’ll put together album if he took his time and structured it and came up with his own concepts and possibly cut the tracks quantity from 31 to 11-14 tracks at least. With him doing this, he could fine tune the tracks and have the audience focus on him and his lyrical skills directly and let him shine more instead of being overweighed with features. Quality over Quantity. Too many features kill the vibe IMO.
Ni##@ made a whole album full of karaoke and wish versions of other artist songs
The album should have been shorter(at best like 20 tracks),but there bangers on it.I would give it a 4/5….
One star general only gives one star
Daddy goes hard on this one to pay money he owes for Ms. Rainey whose her genital was groped but damn dad this album sucks
Damn why is dude touchin himself on that photo
Haha this album is the total embarrassment in hip hop history
Heard this guy could rap from some people, heard nothing from that on this album and his diss somehow managed to be even worse than mgk’s
Mehhh
I’m currently a huge Game groupie so my opinion is biased, but this is 1 of the best hip hop albums I’ve ever heard. Easily AOTY and better than any Eminem album. Talking of Eminem, Game destroyed him just like he did with G-Unit.
You are right! Now go put your halmet and play with the other kids, but don’t bite them!!
Hiphop is dead
Hiphop just died this morning because of Game, she’s dead, she’s deaaad
Nas won’t be impressed and neither am I
I’m gonna go listen to Black Thought
Terrible album
I’m White Slim Shady. Black Slim Shady sucks.
Game got a way better catalogue than he gets credit for, Documentary 2, Doctor’s Advocate and Born 2 Rap are slept on heavy. But he should’ve chopped some of this, Home Invasion is crazy tho…
Hr show luv him some J-Hov
3/5 for me. some solid tracks showing Game’s talent. Unfortunately his ear for beats and flow/lyrics on this album falls short. Not worth the hype and would have been much better if kept to 13-15 tracks. Thought’s album > Games and it isn’t even close.
I give 6/10. If he legit took the best 14 songs out of the 31 it could of been a way better album. Too many forced filler tracks on here but also some fire ones
It’s a terrible thing when someone rates album based on the fact the artist dissed another artist that they are a big fan of rather than because of the quality of the album…if Eminem would’ve made an album just like this with the exact same beats and lyrics they would’ve rated it 10/10 or 1000 stars or whatever
It’s a terrible thing when someone rates album based on the fact the artist dissed another artist that they are a big fan of rather than because of the quality of the album…if Eminem would’ve made an album just like this with the exact same beats and lyrics they would’ve rated it 10/10 or 1000 stars or whatever lol
DJ Paul and Swizz Beats are two of the wackest producers i swear and this loser got both of them on his shitty ass album
DJ Paul has made a ton of great beats.Oh, and this album is a solid 2/5. Too many bullshit songs.
My dick’s gone cold, I’m wonderin why. I got out of wet bed. The morning panties on my window, ooh I can’t see at all. Even if I could be all be dead, your condom’s on my tummy. It reminds me, it is not so bad not so baaad
Ain’t nothin to it! Mumble rap made him do it!
I’ll give it 1.5/5.. Nothing major to it!
this album is fire! anyone giving a low rating is clearly a butthurt eminem fan lol
How much did he pay you to write this? Did he blow you?
Whole lotta hating going on 5/5 and he ripped Em a new one
He didn’t album was fure but that diss was bad
Straight 5
The Real Slim Shady plz stand up plz stand up Black Slim Shady plz face down ass up
Brah this album gets a 2.5/10 like 2 songs are okay, the others are just fillers. As far as the em diss , I don’t care for it, the moment he pulled the “I am black he is white” card is what turned me off. Its like the go to. MGK’s diss was way better and we seen where that took him when the ended. Dude changed genres completely.
His career is over. All the features in the world can’t save you. Drake didn’t even wanna do the album, and game is so stupid he couldn’t even tell he was being curved by Drake in that voicemail and added it to the album… Smfh. Then you diss Eminem on top of that and the diss wasn’t even good. Game over and get the fuck outta here.
Trash, game over. Listen to Black Thought so you know hip hop ain’t dead!
Eminem fans unite – let’s review bomb this racist hack’s album to oblivion. Don’t stop until the community rating goes down to 1/10! Let’s show this racist piece of black shit who the massa here is!
Instead of wasting that energy, can y’all lobby Eminem to remember how to make decent music again?
Well we need to invent a time machine and send him back to 1999-2002ish era for that
Man… I knew a bunch of stans are Cornball losers but DAMN. Put the ps4 on pause, momma called you up saying dinners ready. This is hilarious
Fus Ro Dah!!!
You a accident gay! You act like you fucked a man on purpose. You fucked Dre and 50 but Em ain’t gave his ass so you mad
Nowadays, Game wanna talk like he got somethin’ to say. But nothin’ comes out when he move his lips. Just a bunch of gibberish. And we actually forgot about Game
ABCDEFUCK YOUVWXYZ
Fire
If Eminem was dissing Mariah Carey and Christina Aguillera everyone would love it, but eminem can’t have a rap battle with another man lol. Eminem isn’t all that great people, corporate America has conditioned you all lol
Lol good one….. Man you got them.
Hahahahaha nice one bro, I would like to see a comment from one of the Stans
Eminem literally came up battle rapping he’s literally known in Detroit for battle rapping I don’t know what you’re talking about he doesn’t battle other men that’s literally how he got his name in Detroit
2.5/5. Doesn’t sound like a body of work, sounds more like someones mixed playlist, way to many tracks and jammed full of features and just mimics the features as per usual. That shady diss was corny and just another display of game having no respect for anyone and sulking when he doesn’t get the attention he wants as per usual and is self destructive and toxic as Joe Budden. Saving grace is Hitboy in this album with some solid beats/productions
MGK had a better diss which is sad to say as a Game fan. As for the rest of the album… mostly skippable. Disappointing.
Dddddd..ildo’s opinion, ladies and gentlemen
I like game but this album seems very half hearted..he can rap but his song making ability is horrible
It’s hard
It’s lyricism at its best
LMaooo this article was written by STAN
eminem Stans trying to rate this album low is the most cringy fanboy move since stan killed himself for eminem lol. sorry guys, your hero is just average
Game is an Eminem Stan. Just like MGK. Only MGKs diss was arguably better. Both have publicly praised Eminem, yet here we are.
stans so butthurt lol
And you’re delusional and tone deaf
We’re really not y’all want us to be so bad though by the way love the album
The game should have just focused on an average number of songs rather than attempt a monster album. Spread himself way too thin trying to do something he isn’t good at. He’s a decent rapper, but lyrically handicapped.
Him reaching for that diss track makes him look desperate to get his album noticed. Unfortunately, the track just isn’t cutting it, MGK did a much better job. Attacks another rapper for skin color… Could have gone for a million other things but that’s just weak and obvious.
Overall, a big fail.
All that bark no bite
Better than the majority of new rap albums being released nowadays. Definitely too long – could have been cut down to 17-18 songs and been extremely solid but it’s still a good listen overall. You can’t deny he’s got serious skills as a rapper (listen to Home Invasion and the LA Leakers freestyle). His antics will irritate some people though and that’s why they cry in the comment sections. A project with 10-12 tracks would really suit him, hope he does that next.
Minus, The Black Slim Shady track, this album has 0 skips. A Classic!!
The album is a bit better than a dog shit. Will be playing Black Thought, never again this crap.
Album is nice
Different strokes I guess. Kendrick’s album fell flat for me bigtime but was heralded as some sort of classic. Donda is hot trash but the Stan’s love it. Em’s last 2 had maybe a track or two with any listening longevity for me. Most new artists sound so incredibly lame to these old ears. I guess I like that old school raw sound the Game has cuz I love the album and sounds like old school hip hop other than some misplaced features. Listened to it 4 times this weekend. About 5-7 skips for me and that’s solid on a 31 track album.
Fire
He should just save face and put the mic down…dude had his moment in hip-hop long ago 2005-2007 and he should just stop before he destroys anymore of whatever legacy he has left…sad sad sad
5/5 album was ???
Album was ???? 5/5
Game: “this the best album in my career, BY FAR!”. The judges have determined that THAT, was a lie…
Garbage release by a garbage rapper
cornball mgk had a better diss. better punchlines and got straight to the point. didn’t have to make it over a boring ten minutes long. mgk, nick cannon, and game all have publicly praised eminem before so how can they act like they never had and go against what they’ve said in the past? eminem is the only rapper who gets dissed by his fans lol the last 3 rappers that have dissed him are all eminem stans themselves. game and mgk made it very well known they are very familiar with his music cataloge not only in interviews but in their disses themselves. mgk was even complimenting him I’m his. nick cannon did it to hype his show. game did it to hype his album. only difference is game was so desperate to diss him considering eminem has never even dissed him in the first place unlike mgk and nick cannon. purely for hype. talking about how he never gets played in the club. he doesn’t make music intended to be played in the club you dum dum lol then you got the racist rants along with cringe skits throughout the entire boring 50 minute long track. I thought the album was 3/5 tho. a lot of good/decent songs but mostly skips because there were way too many songs. I just wish he never released black slim shady and kept the tracklist to like 15. kind of embarrassing as a game fan with the whole diss track. itll be interesting to see what eminem does tho
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I skipped the whole album! The Lame is a Bozo and wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for him always saying names. That’s why he was passed off by Dre to 50 like a prostitute. People magically forget that part! Retire already!
Dre pumped and dumped them all. Snoop makes his best record with Dre and never finds the magic again. Eminem starts falling off when Dre stops handling his production and has at best some ups and downs after. 50 never made another good record after GRoDT. Game was moved on from quickly and while Doctor’s Advocate was awesome, he never saw the same success as under Doc. Protege’s like Bishop, Mel-Man, etc. that went nowhere with or without. Who’s next? Anderson .Paak just released a turd with Bruno after Dre helped with his last couple albums. Dre seems to know when to quit or not bother even if his track record isn’t perfect either.
If he cut the album in half and didnt try to be a chamillionaire on every other song, I would of liked it a lot more.. Hit-boy made a lot of dope beats but they were ruined on this album
5/5
Honestly I love the album the beat was classical and dope his rhyme and bars was top notch
Only mistake was he would have ditched slim shady totally but the album in general didn’t disappoint me.
My Top albums
Kendrick Lamar
Lupe fiasco
Jeoy badass
The game
Pusha T
Denger mouse and black thought
It was OK. Lots of filler. Not as good as pusha so this rating needs to change.
Game just evolved from hotrod into rodimus prime with this one
I don’t know why he would want make an album with 30 songs. To make a fire album with 30 tracks is very hard to pull off. He coulda cut this down to like 16 tracks and had a fire album maybe even a classic but instead 30 songs!! Smh
It has some skips but I tell you what you won’t be skipping much. This is some of the Game’s best work to date. I give it strong 4.5.
People really grasping at straws looking to hate on game… this time it’s hurting em cult weirdos feelings & being too long. Listen to any 9 songs, or whatever yalls dwindling attention spans are and make your mind up AFTER listening. You’re meant to be rating someone’s craft, not being little masses of dweebs trying to sink a man for reasons limited to pre-determined feelings. He’s a true lover& student of the game, as shady is… who is more likely than not someone who would tip his cap to games talent through& through (social media noise aside).
I got 99 problems and Game ain’t one, hit me!
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Nice try to be funny but miserable fail. Doesn’t even make sense but keep trying!
People really grasping at straws looking to hate on game… this time it’s hurting em cult weirdos feelings & being too long. Listen to any 9 songs, or whatever yalls dwindling attention spans are and make your mind up AFTER listening. You’re meant to be rating someone’s craft, not being little masses of dweebs trying to sink a man for reasons limited to pre-determined feelings. He’s a true lover& student of the game, as shady is… who is more likely than not someone who would tip his cap to games talent through& through (social media noise aside).
This is top tier. Shame the hate the guy gets. Since the diss (which was solid) upset a certain demographic, negative reviews rained down for no other reason. Em loves this kind of stuff and has been God awful for well over a decade… if you love em, you should love what game is doing for him. Do people really get down to his half-pop albums lately with the cringest most tonedef hooks known to man? Or rather hear two pure-talent artists go back and fourth? Hiphop is competitive and these 2 are masters of their genre. Appreciate instead of denying and not giving credit where its due… as funny as it is to rational people, it’s damn sad. How boring would life be without the bad guy?
Eminem is literally loved worldwide his albums not only so well in America but in other countries too before game even met Eminem the dude had two Diamond albums game has literally done nothing
fir his career with that being said I love this album it says close to 1992 as I’m going to get as far as quality but the other stuff don’t know what you’re talking about
Talent. Unplug your ears, stop yelling “lalala eminem=good, game=bad” and soak it in. Then give your rating on the album… games album. Not your feelings for eminem good God lmao the guy could write illmatic and his travelling circus of haters would be right there to say it’s stinky or too many words or the think someone else sounds like him etc etc. Give flowers when they’re due.
Agree. Give the man his respect. I’ve never understood why he’s so hated on. Yeah he says some outlandish shit sometimes in interviews but we’re all in this for the music right? Well game makes great music flat out. Yeah there’s a shit load of songs and a lot of the featured artists are really bad but you cut out some tracks and get rid of some of these features and this album would be incredible. Instead it’s just a pretty good album. All of games material has great replay value too. I stay bumping games old shit to this day.
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It’s horrible….there’s some amazing artist on this album Game should of done better with everything he had for this album. Obviously the Kanye song is sick ez but after that song Games versus are wack on everything else.
Man I feel sorry for your ears, if you think he has incredible features than that right there shows you listen to ass music. He has 4 features that I actually fuck with. Pusha T, Twista, ASAP (who I’m not even as big of a fan as I used to be) and Camron. I fuck with G Herbo a little too but outside of that, the features are horrible. They hurt the songs. If game took 15 of the best songs on the album and took some of these whack ass rappers off a few songs then this would’ve been his best album since the Documentary 2.5. You’re fucking crazy saying Game is whack. Dude can rap his ass off abd if you can’t admit that then you must be a butt hurt Eminem fan that got his feelings hurt over a diss track that wasn’t really anything special. Still a good album. Now go listen to Kanye and whatever that shit he makes. Don’t forget to listen to Stan 3x before bedtime.
“Your daddy fucked your momma your daddy fucked your sister”
Just a bad album overall especially with all the features. Hyped it up for nothing
I swear y’all have the most inconsistent album reviews. They make no sense. I’m a huge game fan and I think this is a pretty good album especially if he shorted it down to 14-15 songs and it would be an incredible album. I’d give it a 3.9, but my problem is giving this album and the Lloyd banks album the same rating when it’s clear to me that The Course of the Inevitable is a better album than this. You guys are supposed to be a respected website and “hip hop heads” but these reviews believe me to think otherwise. True hip hop heads are definitely rating the banks album higher than this. Y’all actually said the song with NBA Youngboy is a standout track? You’re kidding me right? I couldn’t even listen to that song all the way through and think it’s the worst song on the album. I just got get it. Then you rate gunnas album higher than both of these. That right there shows these reviews are fucked. Based on your ratings, both should be above 4.
I meant The Course of the Inevitable 2. Should be a 4.4 if gunna is a 4. Actually check that. If Gunns is a 4, COTI 2 is a 5 where I’d rate it a 4.2 and the Gabe’s album a 3.9. Y’all sorry. You’ll probably take both of my posts down anyways.
got to rep that west coast well. All the other homeys except dre are far away. I need to listen to it more. Buy and download off itunes find out what the brother wants to say.
Guinness World Record for Most Name Drops goes to… omg rapper The Game!
Game is back and str8 BEASTIN on u niccaaaassss!
The album is immaculate as always from Game with flawless production and well chosen features.
He don’t miss.
Str8 BEASTIN ON U NICCAAAASSSS!!!!!
I bought this physical copy just to dump in the trash lol
More like LOL at yourself for wasting your money and boosting his sales. Trying to be funny when you just sound stupid. It’s funny to me that all the ratings are 1/5 or 5/5. Realizing most of the 1/5 are guaranteed Eminem dick riders and the 5/5 are actual game fans who don’t necessarily believe it’s a 5/5 but feel the need to vote it that high to balance it out from all the pussy boy Eminem fans and the funny thing is I love Eminem’s older shit. Even a few of his songs on the first music to be murdered by we’re pretty good. I think diss records exchanged by the 2 would be good for rap in general and I hope it happens. I’d rate it a 4/5 honestly.
I love adult game, sex game or role playing game but no Game
Love this Album its dope to me.
Whoever says that this album is so good is actually a super gay crying while watching cheesy sloppy soap opera. I’m sure they must be crying while listening to this album for real
Solid album considering all the other trash that hiphop is saturated with. Game has bars and nobody can deny that, at least he can actually still put a decent album together in 2022. I’m guessing most of the hate is from those same old lame 50 stans, still salty because Game destroyed 50 on wax.
No game dies alone of stupid shit instead of just releasing heat 50 fans don’t care about game as much as yall think
Don’t worry everyone I haven’t gone away, props to the commenters keeping my saying alive……….GAME STR8 BEASTIN ON THESE NICCAS
I give 1/5
Still G.A.Y.
30 tracks are hard to get through in one sitting but dude has done it so gotta respect his decision to do that. It’s only like rappers having deluxe editions, at least we get all on one date and not wait a few weeks for extra songs…
The album is decent. Some good, some bad and some average
Don’t like the NBA young boy song at all. Probably one of worst songs I’ve heard since the mid 2000’s it sounds as though they made it then.
The Big Sean track has an annoying chorus. Sounds off and dated.
Change the game is confusing, don’t like Games version.
The Game & Cam’Ron should be fire but not over that beat. They should have chose a more soul sampling track.
So they are the ones I hate but the others are wicked. Both Kanye tracks fire. Ice-t fire
Fivio fire. Rick Ross fire. Etc etc.
The Game should have trimmed the album down to about 25 imo and also remove the Black Slim Shady. I thought it was clever but doesn’t sit well with rest of album.
This album is a big L for Game. Talking about this was gonna be his best album ever. Its one of his worst!
2 or 3 decent tracks.Nothing special at all. Im disappointed as f… And that disstrack is by far the worst diss he have ever made. Or is it a disstrack ? Im so confused.
And that “Em was so much better trend” is getting old. Talking about Em was so much better before, well so were you Game.
2 hours of listening session was a pure torture in my ears mannnn This is the worst album I’ve ever heard damn!
This album is straight up doo-doo y’all.. a real stinker, ya heaaard!!
This album is straight up doo-doo y’all.. a real stinker, ya heaaard!!
the game a sado who disses eminem randomly to get attention, he knew this album would flop big time without some buzz
Some skips? Wtf Diep? This album is a whole skip garbage shit!
This site shoulda gave it at least a 4 outta 5.
Albums dumb crazy, Game really did drop a 30pc…his best work since Doctors Advocate.
Album sounds like Game karaoke night. Straight up. I cut out 20 songs and had 10 tracks mostly above average. Game should learn quality over quantity for real.
NOT A FAN OR A HATER SO IM NOT DROPPING A SCORE. THIS ALBUM PROVES THAT GAME ISNT INSPIRED. EVERYTHING HE SOUNDS FORCED ON HERE. HITBOY DID LACE THE ALBUM WITH DOPE BEATS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE WASTED. THE GUEST LIST AND CONTROVERSY HAVE TO SELL THE ALBUM BC HE STILL HAS NO IDENTITY AS A RAPPER.
If my father is a trash ass rapper that hasn’t one single dope song in 31-packed album then I’d be so embarrassed. I mean, what’s the point of this album? It’s like he needs big money asap to pay the debt he owes for Priscilla Rainey so he puts whole goddammit garbage tracks in a mixtape-worthy album and calls it album of the year haha what a joke, he’s a better comedian than Chris Rock lmao
Great album
The album is fire fuck the Stans yol mad because Game dissed your rap GOD, I understand why he did it, he wants to bring the old hip hop back let the giants fight off and then we decide who’s better, I don’t like your lame rating I rate the album 4/5, Game puts a lot of work on this one and I like the variety of the songs and paying homage to legends of the genre and bringing back artists like Camron and Twista on the spotlight
Diss was weak and stop it as a game fan myself the reason why he dissed Eminem was for attention he even admitted as much in an interview later on
Game Biggie Dre Em 50 Snoop Cube Kendrick Wessideeeeeee!!!!!!!!
On crack if pac ain’t on that list smoking it bra lol
What kind of a man spends 10 mins to express his jealousy and hatred toward his idol? Lol damn grow up man!
5/5 30/30 Better than any album Em has put out since 2003.
Wtf is Game? *chuckles* ohhhhh I’d better get a nice slap than listen to his album
If you listen to this album, you have a serious illness in the head. Get help.
Rap God vs. Name Drop God. This is the Verzuz we’ve all been waitin for!
What a lame dick ridding em eating hip hop ex don’t know shit about hip hop get ems dick out ur mouth and listen again game only did what em has been doing for his whole career what is Eminem without beef crappy music lol
I thought it started strong. The middle was very lackluster. Repeated name drops. Frank ocean name dropped too many times. The last 4 songs it picked back up. In total it could’ve been 11 songs and it would’ve been good. He ruined it for me with the long tracklist and not enough to keep me engaged. The replay value is also very low. The tracks I will return to, I might listen to a couple more times until it leaves my rotation if that.
Terrible album. To many sexual assault cases against him have been successful and some girl owns the rights to a lot of his recent music. This guy dissed Eminem because of his failing career and the only album moving units and making money, some girl gets all the profit. The album is so bad I’m glad I stole it and didn’t pay for this garbage.
Pathetic excuse to alter his image and needs to retire!
It’s unfortunate.Eminen fans are busy crying…thier rap God is insulted .hmm the game can rap better than Eminem … drillmatic album of the year
5/5 hottttttt
I don’t give a fuck wha anyone thinks or say. This is one of Tha Game’s best album. Don’t hate, congratulat Tha Game. I have been playing his whole album all day at work ever since it was on YouTube music. ?
Expected first week sales would be… 1,000 solid copies. Damn can you believe it? Put 31 songs in album just to sell 1,000 albums lol let’s be real, Eminem performed at the Grammy and even got the awards but what about Game? Oh yeah he was just drooling haha
How low can this rating go? Sing with me! How low can you go, how low can you go, how low can you go, how low can you go
Gold
Hiphopdx has A LOT of fools who know absolutely nothing about actual hiphop with all these 1 stars… what an emotional room lol. Easy album of the year, yall not liking who it came outta shouldn’t have a change on that. Imagine eminem or 50 came out with this??? Be the album of the decade easy
Gold
Dope, no matter what you try and tell yourself… this is dope.
Em fans flipping out about album sales and emiem being more popular LOL its not a pop music popularity contest… pop always sells more than the real thing when it comes to hiphop… that ain’t a leg to stand on. Game killed it. That’s what this rating is on… the album. Not the politics and holy hell not the butthurt feelings, wow. This guy is the most slept on of all time. Real rap.
Game’s entire style is about being butt hurt, what are you talking about? Plus it’s always rappers who can’t sell that claim that it doesn’t matter. I agree to that to an extent but this album was mediocre and Black Slim Shady is possibly the worst diss track I’ve ever heard. Em might not be at his peak anymore but when he did peak he pretty much took over the music industry. Game peaked 17 years ago with his first album and even then it was with Aftermath and G-Unit behind him.
Uh oh The Gayme Stans are swarming on this page! Voltron! Assemble!
yeah, just so so, one or two bangers but …yeah…3.
This is the worst hiphop album I’ve ever heard goddamn! Just a buncha gibberish!
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
Put 31 songs in one album? This is very tricky and I can see that he’s that desperate. I mean more songs in one album means more stream count and maybe he thought it will boost his album sales but damn man putting 10 quality songs in one album would’ve been more fortune than putting 31 garbage meaningless bullshit talking records
Why You Hate the Game hits a little different right now.
I don’t know if you heard my album but it is straight trash and no worth replay. THE GAME STR8 GAYIN ON THESE NICCAS!!
I’m the baddest bitch around here!!!! Who gon fight me now!! I want my genital to be groped!!
Not falling for it, I’m not getting sued again.
(He was once a thug from around the way)
My life was never (Yeezy)
My life was never (Yeezy)
Ggggggggg G-Unit!
I’m so YAG
ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
COME ON EMINEM DON’T BE LAZY AND PICK UP YOUR PEN WHITE BOY
ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
COME ON EMINEM DON’T BE LAZY AND PICK UP YOUR PEN WHITE BOY
Keny below is a super Game femboy lol
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Corny Em fans, this is not a five but it’s a solid enjoyable album. Everyone is too damn partisan these days, you don’t need to ride or die for your favourite artist.
Says a corny Gayme fan lol
Game. The game. Jaceon Taylor. Dude should be ashamed. From the cover to the flow to the name dropping like he’s the one, dude really fuxked it all up. Now retire dude bye bye
Oops I wanted to give this album 5/5 but my finger slipped lol
No it didn’t, you were right the first time.
Expected smoke but only got vapors
Album is amazing. Got white folks pissed.
Lol now it’s my turn to whoop your ass just like you ganged up on me because you were a coward
Album of the year
Album of the year
Trash of the year
1/5
Bojitmul!
Ggochu!
On your dick, soldier!
On your balls, soldier!
Album of the year! The fact that it’s getting so much hate shows how much the Stans are trying to disrupt it lol. Classic album regardless
Album of the year, despite the Stans doing those hardest to make it flop lol. Classic album regardless, a song on there for everybody, including the haters haha. Real rap will always shine to the real ones! DRILLMATIC
Drillmadic – Dom or Sub
Calling himself Black “Slim Shady” proves The Game is a super Eminem stan lol
Damn right man lol
It’s a terrible thing when people rate an album based on the fact that they’re on Em’s jock and cry whenever anyone disses Em rather than based on the quality of the album…Em stans are the worst.
This is a great album, contender for rap album of the year! Lots of replay value I’m bumping “Outside” all the time it’s my favorite track on this album so far. Also Home Invasion, Voodoo, Start From Scratch II, Chrome Slugs and Harmony, Fortunate, How Far I Came, the whole album is fire.
Classic, The Game’s best work, the album is hitting on all cylinders
Album hits hard and it’s a shame nobody will talk about it. Guess that’s what happens when you burn every major bridge in the music business.
5 mics. Yes I’m a ‘stan’, but I can’t deny the quality of this album. It’s up there with Nas and Pushas latest albums. Dope track after dope track, no filler.
I went in blind, from track 1 without reading the features and went “this one sounds like some Pusha t type shit” then Push started spitting on the next beat. Classic moment for me. Shame he didn’t keep the slim diss separate from this release and put that out later.
Fuck Mick
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Come on man this is garbage
Go ahead, envy me
Meh. Still better than Mr Oralll and the bed wetters.
Long skip good night. Still better than Mr Oral and the bed Wetters.
O/5
Very nice
Razor sharp Ldms, dope remixed beats saluting his influencers
Classic west coast hip hop alive and well
Garbage!!
That YoungBoy joint was a skipper anyway. Ya’ll Eminem fans need several chill pills. If you cant tell that beef was manufactured for promo and push then you need to drop your phone an crush your ear budz immegeeately. This album bangs front to back with about 2/3 skippers. 27/30 is stellar! I recommend real HipHop fans get on it.
Game one of the all time greats
Album is fire bro. Good diss too!
Solid
Dope album. Not as good as Jesus Piece but very solid.
Game is consistent with his great beat selections. Album is just too long for today’s microwave attn spans.
Consistently gay maybe lol. All hype and little sustenance. His worst album since Red. Spend too much time dick riding and imitating everyone else’s gimmicks,flows, concepts, and style.
I take it back about Stupid. Just watched the vid and it swayed my verdict on the song
Does that happen to other people? Or just me ?
Mr. Shady don’t be lazy
Pick that pen up, don’t be lazy
BEST DISS RECORD EVER. GAME WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER TO HOLD THE MIC.
Album is still in rotation. Classic.
25k first week sales??? And he said he was a legend??? Damn boi boi, should’ve called eminem for that feature instead of that lame ass ‘diss’ record. #YouShamedYourDamnSelf
you shamed yourself
Legend
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Game can rap but his style is just plain and simple. Bloods, bitches, money he in the hood on street shit. It’s a reason Dre didn’t need you. You just too predictable.
Going after Shady I get it to sell your album but you’re not even on Tech N9ne level or Hopsin!!
feat feat feat feat feat feat
Underrated
Album of the year but unfortunately younger rap fans have awful taste in music and this will go over their heads. It’s a 4.5 for me.
Horrible album Snoop Dogg BODR is better
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Regardless how you feel about Game he can rap better than 90% of artists out. It’s a good album. Hitboy Always brings the heat! Not a classic but solid. It’s alot of content.
This is Trash!!
Best rap album of the year
People sleep on Game!l ?
This album was FIRE 9/10 . Mix of Old school and New, and Game flexes many different flows. Beats are crazy. Storytelling… this album has it all .
This album was FIRE 9/10 . Mix of Old school and New, and Game flexes many different flows. Beats are crazy. Storytelling… this album has it all .