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**Official Game Thread** New Album "Jesus Piece" out Dec. 11th!
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so have them tapes dropped yet
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Originally Posted by treewing
Krazy is dope as !@#%...are u Krazy?Originally Posted by Air Kalo
Fixed.
I don't know... I've only listened to it once for like a minute.
Maybe I should give it another listen?
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I hated Krazy and Big Money at the first listen but they have grown on me. Better days is dope too.
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No.
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only song ive heard so far that i didnt like is "better days"
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by brotttttaRP
I hated Krazy and Big Money at the first listen but they have grown on me. Better days is dope too.
My thoughts EXACTLY
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thought this was funny because of all the dudes that call Game bipolar on here...
http://twitter.com/search?q=#donttrytoholla
http://twitter.com/search?q=#donttrytoholla
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Game was pretty funny tonight on twitter
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he definitely flooded the timeline...didn't feel like reading every tweet but the ones i did read were pretty funny
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I never bought a game album smh..but to be honest i didn't really became a real fan until he droped LAX smh...once i heard letter to king i really became aGame fan lol..so i def coppin the RED since i skipped on LAX..
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i was gonna say im surprised people werent feeling LAX. but this is NT.
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When are the mixtapes going to drop? This is some ol bull.
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Originally Posted by thachosen123
@ the nipsey santa hat.........hook me up wit a santa hat punk........and I thought y'all were goin to WS this week
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Tell me about it, dude is slackin....this is the perfect time to be floodin the industry with new mixtape music
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Originally Posted by wildout4
Originally Posted by thachosen123
@ the nipsey santa hat.........hook me up wit a santa hat punk........and I thought y'all were goin to WS this week
dude in general is making them for everybody. we might go tomoro tho. and come thru saturday im ordering the fight.
Yessir I'll hit you up
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LAX was hot as @%%+. I disagree highly. True Game fans would agree. The joint with Common was very nice.
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COSIGN TWICE.
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I'm feelin the same way. Dude was talking about 4 mixtapes in a week on twitter. Haven't seen one. DJ Drama and Game? That would be a first and wouldbe hot as !%*$. Maybe he just talking +#*#. Who knows.. "Red October" Little bit late.
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a little insight into the way game thinks
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COMPLEX INTERVIEW!
[h1]Music[/h1]
Interview: The Game Talks R.E.D, 50 Cent, Jay-Z And Interscope
5 O'Clock Shuffle: Consequence, Kidz In The Hall, Joe Budden, Theophilus London & More
5 O'Clock Shuffle: Jim Jones, Drake, Sleigh Bells, Curren$y & More
Interview: Pill Talks Atlanta Childhood, Rap Influences & New Mixtape
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[h1]Winding Down[/h1]
Winding Down: We're Checking For Alice Greczyn
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[h1]Interview: The Game Talks R.E.D, 50 Cent, Jay-Z And Interscope[/h1]
Photo courtesy of Interscope
It's been over a year since we've seen Jayceon Taylor on covers of magazines with a gun to his head, and crying on YouTube videosabout hip-hop of the past. He'll be the first to admit his life is an emotional roller-coaster, but nowadays The Game seems more content than usual.
And maybe he has good reason to be. He's back working with Dr. Dre and says his forthcoming LP The R.E.D Album (due out February 16) is hisfavorite since The Documentary. He's even feeling relieved that Jay-Z never responded to his sideways comments he made in his last Complex interview. Yesterday, we reconnected withGame to get his take on 50 baiting Jay into a battle, the new album, young rappers like Drake, and why Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine wants to reunite thehip-hop Beatles. It was Game on as usual…
Interview by Joe La Puma
Complex: Starting off, talk about the reasoning behind naming your new joint The R.E.D. Album.
Game: R.E.D is simply rededicated. That's what R.E.D is, the r-e-d in red for me. And rededicated to what? My family, my craft, whichis hip-hop, my fans, which are world wide, my children, my hood, my city, and what got me here-which is the color. I think that before I came out there was no red. There was Snoop,everybody was Crip walking. I came in, I took the color on as a whole. People just adapted to who I am and where I come from. I mean now, even Crips wearred.
Complex: How do you feel about other rappers who claim Blood and shout "Soo-Woo"?
Game: I mean, look what I did to Jim Jones, and look at Weezy, and look at Gucci Mane. I feel like I did that. It's a free country. People can dowhatever they want to do and if anything they're just making me bigger and my legacy and where I come from and what I represent bigger.
Complex: I know Gucci Mane is onthe album. What other collaborations can we expect?
Game: I got Rick Ross. I got Beanie Sigel, I got Jeezy. I finally did a song with Jeezy that's %%@!!!' crazy too. For the most part it's me, with a couple of features from people I haven't workedwith yet-I always try to work with new people every album. But it's people that I respect and that are also poppin' in the world and that other peoplewant to hear.
Complex: I read somewhere that there's going to be some production by RZA. Is that true?
Game: RZA gave me a beat, which I am so %%@!!!' ecstatic about. I appreciate it because he doesn't make beats anymore. RZA gets paid millions ofdollars now to score movies, big %%@!!!' movies. So, for him to come in my studio and for him to say "Yo Game, I brought this beat to you and justlisten to it and just tell me if you like it…" So I listened to it and I was so crazy about it. I called him and he was like, "Yo, you could havethat beat." That's all it was and I ain't talk to RZA since, @$++ [Laughs].
Complex: So Jay-Z did The Black Album, The Beatles did The White Album. How does The R.E.D. Album stack up against thosemasterpieces?
Game: I just would consider this my best effort since The Documentary. My favorite would be the Doctor's Advocate, but TheDocumentary is my first album. It is to the people what Illmatic was to the people, what Ready to Die was, what ReasonableDoubt was, Straight Out of Compton, and all those albums. It's the first album, so I kind of think that people are biased to say thatit's classic. But The R.E.D. Album is as dope as The Documentary was. There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling meto rap like this or anything, I'm just dead me on this album. I did it by myself, with the help of Dr. Dre this time and that was a breath of fresh air andrelieved a lot of my stress and tension. It's always easier when you're rolling with that mastermind, man.
Complex: So working with Dre again, it seemed to piss 50 off a little bit…
Game: That made 50 mad, man.
Complex: Do you think it was a jealousy thing?
Game: 50's just bitter, man. For what reason? I don't know. He doesn't have to be. Me and his beef is old at this point. It's pure comedyfor me at this point. When he says something, I laugh. If I shoot a shot back it's just a joke at this point. Nobody is going to kill each other. Nobody isgonna beat each other's +$!. I'm not gonna do none of that. So we might as well get along. We exist in hip-hop. You know with opening arms he canre-join my band of brothers. Just say sorry and you want to make music. He'll never be as big as he was and he'll never be able to put out an album that people will be waiting for and anticipate asmuch without me, period. And I ain't saying that he needs me, but me and him made the best records together. I understand it, he needs to understand it,and maybe one day we'll record. He said recently in an interview that he'll never work with Game again but that's all him talking and his ego. Ican't wait to mend the ties with Eminem. Me and Eminem had never been at odds but he had to take 50's side. That's his artist and his homie andwhat not, and I understood it but I'd love to get back with Eminem and work again and sort of restructure the Voltron if you will.
Complex: Even though he says he won't work with you, it seems like right now you're telling me you'd definitely work with 50again…
Game: 'Cause I don't hold grudges. Like, it's hip-hop, man. We're not %%@!!!' WWF wrestlers, we're not boxers man, it's justhip-hop. It's just make music or don't make music. It's not a gang war, like he's not a Crip and I'm a Blood, and this ain't%%@!!!' '85, and I'm not gonna ride through his hood and do a drive by, like it's not that serious, bruh. It's just hip-hop and I thinkthat he's more bitter towards me then anyone else he's had drama with because look what I did to his brand. I killed G-Unit. I killed the clothes, I killed the brand, I killed Tony Ya-Yo, Banks, and Buck at that time. Like I really $!!!%% up a lot of money for that dude. Not onlyfor him but my label, Jimmy Iovine, who at this point, I'm apologetic to.
Complex: Is the label situation cool now?
Game: I've mended the wounds at Interscope. You know I went against my own label and I came out the smoke with my hands held high and my head, man. So Imean, I don't know what 50's problem is but I'm here. Whenever he wants to call me on the phone and talk about it, squash it or we can keep ongoing with this @++$#%$ child- like antics. He can do it, I can do it and we can do it 'til we %%@!!!' die, it makes me no difference, man.
Complex: Interesting…
Game: If he ever wants to do something of catastrophic proportion, then we could. If we said tomorrow Game and 50 are coming out with an album, you know howmany #%@%+%@@%!%*' antennas would go up? We could still sell a million records just off promoting it alone. I mean, I understand the business aspect of it.I understand that you know, he's got a big ego. I'm just not one with it, I don't have one. I forgive and forget and that's life. One dayyou're alive and the next day you die. So why spend it bitter and mad at the %%@!!!' world, man? I don't understand it.
Complex: 50's been baiting Jay-Z recently. As someone who's had issues with both of them, how do you feel about him going afterJay?
Game: Oh yeah, I already did that Jay-Z thing. 50's just doing what I'm doing. Nobody went at Jay, I went at Jay. Now everybody wants to get at Jay,not saying anything about Beanie Sigel, that's personal and I stay out of that. He's just a man and he's got all the right in the world, but I feellike I did something that people have been wanting to do, but everybody is scared because Jay-Z is so lyrically inclined to cut your throat and your career inhalf that nobody wanted to do it. But me? I just don't give a $!@! sometimes.
Complex: What do you think that the result of that battle would be?
Game: Jay-Z will $!@! 50 up in a battle! It would be so fast and over with. 50 is funny, but Jay is witty. Jay-Z is not to be toyed with. If he %%@!!!'responds, if he feels like you're really pissing him off and he responds, he's gonna $!@! you up! He would $!@! me up, I'm just glad he didn't%%@!!!' respond, so I didn't have to go dig in my %%@!!!' bag and try to $!@! him up. I definitely think that Jay-Z didn't come at me like hecame at any other rappers because I definitely would have been more disrespectful and once you start a beef with me you better be ready to go the whole #%@%+%@@%!%*' 12 rounds because I will try to chew your %%@!!!' ear off like MikeTyson. I'll do it and I think he knew that-I'm disrespectful. So Jay, he did the right thing and just kinda let it die down and I let it die down'cause it wasn't anything really. It was %%@!!!' fun and I really admire Jay's career. I just really don't care too much for the manhimself.
Complex: Now, I saw on your Twitter that you were talking to Shynerecently.
Game: Yeah, I talked to him for about an hour. Just about his well being and both of our next moves. What I thought he should do and he listened and held meon my thoughts and he gave me a lot of insight on my career and what he thought of my career from the several years while he's been locked down. He'sthe reason why I'm not ready to jump into beefs and controversy today because he kind of shed light on some different situations and it gave me a differentperspective. Which is one that I respect being that he's been behind those bars. So we just chopped it up about life and issues and each other, man.
Complex: Last year we saw you on the cover of The Source with a gun to your head and you were saying some days are good, some days are bad.What is your mind frame like today?
Game: I'm in such a %%@!!!' good mood man, you could damn near run in my front yard and blow up my car and I would just smile at you. I might%%@!!!' shoot you with a sling-shot or something, but I'm definitely less drama filled and I'm just having a good time with my music and my life.I've been going out a couple of nights with my boys and drinkin' and hangin' and chillin' and I'm just having fun. You know, the othernight I was in a club out here with a couple of billionaire homies and we bought some Ace of Spades and joked about Jay-Z, but at least we contributed 17grand. It costs 17 grand in the club and five grand on the %%@!!!' street. We bought it and just balled out man. In the name of Jay-Z, H-O-V, R-O-C, yaheard? [Laughs]
Complex: [Laughs] I noticed that you Twitter a lot. What rap blogs do you read?
Game: Rap blogs? None. Man I don't %%@!!!' buy XXL anymore, unless I see them around in the studio anymore, [but] I won't pick them up.I'm so lost, like people were telling me, "Yo, you gotta hear this new kid, J. Cole." Like people had to force feed me Drake, I never even heardhim until a while after he started blowing up and then I became a fan. But I'm so out of the %%@!!!' loop. Like I got my Biggie greatest hits, myMakavelli, my %%@!!!' EPMD albums in every car. So I don't know what's going on currently in hip-hop, unless it pertains to me and my careerdirectly.
Complex: There's not a young rapper who really impressed you?
Game: Oh, Drake's the man! Drake is %%@!!!' phenomenal. I like Drake, he's dope as $!@!. Lyrically that dude, the @$++ he says and where he getsit from is crazy. Drake is dope. I haven't heard a bad song yet.
Complex: So going back to the label situation, it seems like everything is smooth with Interscope?
Game: Everything that happened in my career was nobody's fault but mine. They run a business and I went against that business and, I paid for it. Withthe loss of the group aspect. Jimmy Iovine likes to say, "Thanks for breaking up the Beatles, Game. Thank you."
Complex: And he's referring to you…
Game: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I'm John Lennon and 50 is Paul McCartney and Jimmy always says, "Thanks for breaking up the Beatles, man, youguys are worth more together. So I don't know what the $!@! you guys are doing. Whenever you guys want to %%@!!!' get your heads out your ++%@#. Comesit down and take a meeting, make some money, we can talk. Until then, just keep the @$++ out of my office." That's Jimmy Iovine for you, man.
[h1]Music[/h1]
Interview: The Game Talks R.E.D, 50 Cent, Jay-Z And Interscope
5 O'Clock Shuffle: Consequence, Kidz In The Hall, Joe Budden, Theophilus London & More
5 O'Clock Shuffle: Jim Jones, Drake, Sleigh Bells, Curren$y & More
Interview: Pill Talks Atlanta Childhood, Rap Influences & New Mixtape[h1]Style[/h1]
Street Detail: Rockstar Rep
Brand Profile: Noir Basic
Daily Style & Design News: November 18, 2009
Buy It Now: Obey Poor Boy Skinny Pant[h1]Kicks of the Day[/h1]
Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Outsider Boot
Nike Sportswear Air Max 90
Vans Half Cab
Nike Terminator High Supreme[h1]Wake N' Watch[/h1]
Wake N' Watch: Kanye West Performs 'Ego' With Beyoncé In London
Wake N' Watch: Terry Kennedy's Fly Society 'Get Rich' Music Video
Wake N' Watch: Beyonce f/ Lady Gaga 'Video Phone' Music Video
Wake N' Watch: Clipse f/ Cam'ron 'Popular Demand (Popeyes)' Music Video[h1]Winding Down[/h1]
Winding Down: We're Checking For Alice Greczyn
Winding Down: Ashley Tisdale Works It Out
Winding Down: Hayden Panettiere Saves The Whales
Winding Down: Blake Lively Is Still Hot When It's Cold[h1]Rides[/h1]
Test Drive: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
Complex Expert Guide: Ken Block On How To Drift
Two Wheel Motion: 5 Bikes For Any Speed (Style & Design 2009)
Test Drive: 2010 Cadillac CTS-V[h1]Interview: The Game Talks R.E.D, 50 Cent, Jay-Z And Interscope[/h1]
Photo courtesy of Interscope
It's been over a year since we've seen Jayceon Taylor on covers of magazines with a gun to his head, and crying on YouTube videosabout hip-hop of the past. He'll be the first to admit his life is an emotional roller-coaster, but nowadays The Game seems more content than usual.
And maybe he has good reason to be. He's back working with Dr. Dre and says his forthcoming LP The R.E.D Album (due out February 16) is hisfavorite since The Documentary. He's even feeling relieved that Jay-Z never responded to his sideways comments he made in his last Complex interview. Yesterday, we reconnected withGame to get his take on 50 baiting Jay into a battle, the new album, young rappers like Drake, and why Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine wants to reunite thehip-hop Beatles. It was Game on as usual…
Interview by Joe La Puma
Complex: Starting off, talk about the reasoning behind naming your new joint The R.E.D. Album.
Game: R.E.D is simply rededicated. That's what R.E.D is, the r-e-d in red for me. And rededicated to what? My family, my craft, whichis hip-hop, my fans, which are world wide, my children, my hood, my city, and what got me here-which is the color. I think that before I came out there was no red. There was Snoop,everybody was Crip walking. I came in, I took the color on as a whole. People just adapted to who I am and where I come from. I mean now, even Crips wearred.
Complex: How do you feel about other rappers who claim Blood and shout "Soo-Woo"?
Game: I mean, look what I did to Jim Jones, and look at Weezy, and look at Gucci Mane. I feel like I did that. It's a free country. People can dowhatever they want to do and if anything they're just making me bigger and my legacy and where I come from and what I represent bigger.
Complex: I know Gucci Mane is onthe album. What other collaborations can we expect?
Game: I got Rick Ross. I got Beanie Sigel, I got Jeezy. I finally did a song with Jeezy that's %%@!!!' crazy too. For the most part it's me, with a couple of features from people I haven't workedwith yet-I always try to work with new people every album. But it's people that I respect and that are also poppin' in the world and that other peoplewant to hear.
Complex: I read somewhere that there's going to be some production by RZA. Is that true?
Game: RZA gave me a beat, which I am so %%@!!!' ecstatic about. I appreciate it because he doesn't make beats anymore. RZA gets paid millions ofdollars now to score movies, big %%@!!!' movies. So, for him to come in my studio and for him to say "Yo Game, I brought this beat to you and justlisten to it and just tell me if you like it…" So I listened to it and I was so crazy about it. I called him and he was like, "Yo, you could havethat beat." That's all it was and I ain't talk to RZA since, @$++ [Laughs].
Complex: So Jay-Z did The Black Album, The Beatles did The White Album. How does The R.E.D. Album stack up against thosemasterpieces?
Game: I just would consider this my best effort since The Documentary. My favorite would be the Doctor's Advocate, but TheDocumentary is my first album. It is to the people what Illmatic was to the people, what Ready to Die was, what ReasonableDoubt was, Straight Out of Compton, and all those albums. It's the first album, so I kind of think that people are biased to say thatit's classic. But The R.E.D. Album is as dope as The Documentary was. There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling meto rap like this or anything, I'm just dead me on this album. I did it by myself, with the help of Dr. Dre this time and that was a breath of fresh air andrelieved a lot of my stress and tension. It's always easier when you're rolling with that mastermind, man.
Complex: So working with Dre again, it seemed to piss 50 off a little bit…
Game: That made 50 mad, man.
Complex: Do you think it was a jealousy thing?
Game: 50's just bitter, man. For what reason? I don't know. He doesn't have to be. Me and his beef is old at this point. It's pure comedyfor me at this point. When he says something, I laugh. If I shoot a shot back it's just a joke at this point. Nobody is going to kill each other. Nobody isgonna beat each other's +$!. I'm not gonna do none of that. So we might as well get along. We exist in hip-hop. You know with opening arms he canre-join my band of brothers. Just say sorry and you want to make music. He'll never be as big as he was and he'll never be able to put out an album that people will be waiting for and anticipate asmuch without me, period. And I ain't saying that he needs me, but me and him made the best records together. I understand it, he needs to understand it,and maybe one day we'll record. He said recently in an interview that he'll never work with Game again but that's all him talking and his ego. Ican't wait to mend the ties with Eminem. Me and Eminem had never been at odds but he had to take 50's side. That's his artist and his homie andwhat not, and I understood it but I'd love to get back with Eminem and work again and sort of restructure the Voltron if you will.
Complex: Even though he says he won't work with you, it seems like right now you're telling me you'd definitely work with 50again…
Game: 'Cause I don't hold grudges. Like, it's hip-hop, man. We're not %%@!!!' WWF wrestlers, we're not boxers man, it's justhip-hop. It's just make music or don't make music. It's not a gang war, like he's not a Crip and I'm a Blood, and this ain't%%@!!!' '85, and I'm not gonna ride through his hood and do a drive by, like it's not that serious, bruh. It's just hip-hop and I thinkthat he's more bitter towards me then anyone else he's had drama with because look what I did to his brand. I killed G-Unit. I killed the clothes, I killed the brand, I killed Tony Ya-Yo, Banks, and Buck at that time. Like I really $!!!%% up a lot of money for that dude. Not onlyfor him but my label, Jimmy Iovine, who at this point, I'm apologetic to.
Complex: Is the label situation cool now?
Game: I've mended the wounds at Interscope. You know I went against my own label and I came out the smoke with my hands held high and my head, man. So Imean, I don't know what 50's problem is but I'm here. Whenever he wants to call me on the phone and talk about it, squash it or we can keep ongoing with this @++$#%$ child- like antics. He can do it, I can do it and we can do it 'til we %%@!!!' die, it makes me no difference, man.
Complex: Interesting…
Game: If he ever wants to do something of catastrophic proportion, then we could. If we said tomorrow Game and 50 are coming out with an album, you know howmany #%@%+%@@%!%*' antennas would go up? We could still sell a million records just off promoting it alone. I mean, I understand the business aspect of it.I understand that you know, he's got a big ego. I'm just not one with it, I don't have one. I forgive and forget and that's life. One dayyou're alive and the next day you die. So why spend it bitter and mad at the %%@!!!' world, man? I don't understand it.
Complex: 50's been baiting Jay-Z recently. As someone who's had issues with both of them, how do you feel about him going afterJay?
Game: Oh yeah, I already did that Jay-Z thing. 50's just doing what I'm doing. Nobody went at Jay, I went at Jay. Now everybody wants to get at Jay,not saying anything about Beanie Sigel, that's personal and I stay out of that. He's just a man and he's got all the right in the world, but I feellike I did something that people have been wanting to do, but everybody is scared because Jay-Z is so lyrically inclined to cut your throat and your career inhalf that nobody wanted to do it. But me? I just don't give a $!@! sometimes.
Complex: What do you think that the result of that battle would be?
Game: Jay-Z will $!@! 50 up in a battle! It would be so fast and over with. 50 is funny, but Jay is witty. Jay-Z is not to be toyed with. If he %%@!!!'responds, if he feels like you're really pissing him off and he responds, he's gonna $!@! you up! He would $!@! me up, I'm just glad he didn't%%@!!!' respond, so I didn't have to go dig in my %%@!!!' bag and try to $!@! him up. I definitely think that Jay-Z didn't come at me like hecame at any other rappers because I definitely would have been more disrespectful and once you start a beef with me you better be ready to go the whole #%@%+%@@%!%*' 12 rounds because I will try to chew your %%@!!!' ear off like MikeTyson. I'll do it and I think he knew that-I'm disrespectful. So Jay, he did the right thing and just kinda let it die down and I let it die down'cause it wasn't anything really. It was %%@!!!' fun and I really admire Jay's career. I just really don't care too much for the manhimself.
Complex: Now, I saw on your Twitter that you were talking to Shynerecently.
Game: Yeah, I talked to him for about an hour. Just about his well being and both of our next moves. What I thought he should do and he listened and held meon my thoughts and he gave me a lot of insight on my career and what he thought of my career from the several years while he's been locked down. He'sthe reason why I'm not ready to jump into beefs and controversy today because he kind of shed light on some different situations and it gave me a differentperspective. Which is one that I respect being that he's been behind those bars. So we just chopped it up about life and issues and each other, man.
Complex: Last year we saw you on the cover of The Source with a gun to your head and you were saying some days are good, some days are bad.What is your mind frame like today?
Game: I'm in such a %%@!!!' good mood man, you could damn near run in my front yard and blow up my car and I would just smile at you. I might%%@!!!' shoot you with a sling-shot or something, but I'm definitely less drama filled and I'm just having a good time with my music and my life.I've been going out a couple of nights with my boys and drinkin' and hangin' and chillin' and I'm just having fun. You know, the othernight I was in a club out here with a couple of billionaire homies and we bought some Ace of Spades and joked about Jay-Z, but at least we contributed 17grand. It costs 17 grand in the club and five grand on the %%@!!!' street. We bought it and just balled out man. In the name of Jay-Z, H-O-V, R-O-C, yaheard? [Laughs]
Complex: [Laughs] I noticed that you Twitter a lot. What rap blogs do you read?
Game: Rap blogs? None. Man I don't %%@!!!' buy XXL anymore, unless I see them around in the studio anymore, [but] I won't pick them up.I'm so lost, like people were telling me, "Yo, you gotta hear this new kid, J. Cole." Like people had to force feed me Drake, I never even heardhim until a while after he started blowing up and then I became a fan. But I'm so out of the %%@!!!' loop. Like I got my Biggie greatest hits, myMakavelli, my %%@!!!' EPMD albums in every car. So I don't know what's going on currently in hip-hop, unless it pertains to me and my careerdirectly.
Complex: There's not a young rapper who really impressed you?
Game: Oh, Drake's the man! Drake is %%@!!!' phenomenal. I like Drake, he's dope as $!@!. Lyrically that dude, the @$++ he says and where he getsit from is crazy. Drake is dope. I haven't heard a bad song yet.
Complex: So going back to the label situation, it seems like everything is smooth with Interscope?
Game: Everything that happened in my career was nobody's fault but mine. They run a business and I went against that business and, I paid for it. Withthe loss of the group aspect. Jimmy Iovine likes to say, "Thanks for breaking up the Beatles, Game. Thank you."
Complex: And he's referring to you…
Game: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I'm John Lennon and 50 is Paul McCartney and Jimmy always says, "Thanks for breaking up the Beatles, man, youguys are worth more together. So I don't know what the $!@! you guys are doing. Whenever you guys want to %%@!!!' get your heads out your ++%@#. Comesit down and take a meeting, make some money, we can talk. Until then, just keep the @$++ out of my office." That's Jimmy Iovine for you, man.
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That was a real %#% interview
and I'm def looking foward to the finished product of the R.E.D. album.
but I will say that all the songs I've heard so far have been pretty weak though
and I'm def looking foward to the finished product of the R.E.D. album.
but I will say that all the songs I've heard so far have been pretty weak though
