New Game Interview With Allhiphop

[Outlaw ANOTHA]

Normally, these feature stories start with a wordy, cute intro followed by an interview. This is not necessary with The Game, né Jayceon Taylor. This is what you need to know about the Compton rep. First, The Game has 100 songs to pick from for his upcoming album, L.A.X., expected to drop June 24. Second, somehow The Game has managed to change and stay the same, all at once. Lastly, kill all those rumors of The Game committing suicide. Not happening.

Please read until the words stop.

AllHipHop.com: First of all let’s talk about the new album, what everybody can expect, who you’re working with.

The Game: Everything on this album is a step up from the first two albums, you know what I’m sayin’, as it should be as a Hip-Hop artist, as a musician, as a gangster rapper, whatever people think I am. This album is going to be monumental. It’s a summertime album, it’s ‘gon sound like that. You’re still gonna get your street joints, you’re still gonna get your feel good records, you’re gonna get all crazy beats because my ear for music; you know, I’m a product of Dr. Dre. And even before Dre, I had an ear for music, I knew what albums were dope and we all know the dope MCs and I listened to them just like he did so I know what hit records are, I know what classic albums are and I know what ingredients it takes to make those things happen.

AllHipHop.com: Gotcha.

the gameThe Game: The Documentary, I had help from 50 you know what I’m sayin’, I had help from Dre. It was a lot of people in on that. After the whole blow up with G-Unit and parting ways with Aftermath and leaving Interscope for Geffen and just mixing my whole career up, The Doctor’s Advocate was a sophomore album where I got a chance to prove myself. But I spent so much time trying to prove myself and defeat the sophomore jinx stuff and trying to fight them back, you know Curtis back and Dre back, with the dope album that I did myself. I’m sayin’ that I forgot to just relax and make just all the way around dope music so it sounded like a West Coast album.

I had to just let the West know this is how we ride so that was how the album was. But what L.A.X is or Los Angeles Times or whatever you wanna call, it is just Hip-Hop. It’s a good album, it’s a gangster rap album, it’s a Hip-Hop album, it’s a West Coast album, but it’s a East Cast album, it’s a Dirty South album, I have all the right elements this time and I had fun.

AllHipHop.com: Who is going to be on this one?

The Game: On this album, I was in the room with these people, [it wasn’t like] MP3’s go out and hooks come back. I did all the joints [with the artists]. Like the joint with Keyshia Cole I got coming, I got a joint with Ludacris, I got it in with Lil Wayne, it’s all Hip-Hop stuff. I ain’t never told nobody about who my features was or gave nobody insight on the album [except AllHipHop Big Smile], but everybody I got in with was in the room man.

AllHipHop.com : Okay, that’s what’s up. Lyrically are you going to be talking about different things? A lot of people want to know what he’s going to bring lyrically.

The Game: You know I wanna set the record straight on something that Grouchy [Greg] already knows, you already know like everybody always says “Game he’s always name dropping” and  they be listening to me name drop so much that they don’t listen to other artists for [their name drops]. Everybody be name dropping. But me I kind of started that with The Documentary but I always figured myself to be like a Hip-Hop analyst, a reporter if so, so I’m always goin’ to name drop like that’s my style. I do it on purpose, I do it for a reason. It helps me accent what I’m trying to say. When I name drop it’s a reason for that and I’m never goin’ to stop. So, if you don’t like me [name dropping], I can save you some gas, 20 dollars and I can save your speakers. Don’t buy my record, man, if you ain’t looking for that. That’s a part of who I am.

AllHipHop.com: Will you be working with Dre on this one?

The Game: Man, I was supposed to go see Dre this week man, but then I was supposed to see Dre last week, I was supposed to see Dre the week before last man, so I can’t let Dre or anybody let me break my concentration. I’m working  on L.A.X, I can finish it without Dre. I mean, me and Dre might get back together again on the fourth album or we might not never get back together but that’s still my homie, I still got a lot of respect for him. He’s the sole reason why I’m a marquee artist or an A-list rap star in this industry and in the world so I’m always gonna give Dre props. When we work together, is when we work together, but as of today we ain’t worked together.

    "Dre can’t finish Detox without me man, I’m the West coast man. Dre reached out and expressed that he wanted me to be a part of Detox and I also let Dre know that when it’s time for Detox just holla at me, I’m there whether you do my record or not..."

AllHipHop.com : I always felt like you would be one of the key reasons Detox would be a good album. He’s always has an anchor like Snoop or Eminem.

The Game: Dre can’t finish Detox without me man, I’m the West coast man. I’m the West coast man, Snoop he was the West coast when he was the West coast Snoop’s the King of the Coast, but he’s like iconic, he’s a legend already. But West coast now, that’s me. You can’t do it now without me. You can’t do nothing without me man I’m it and Dre made me it, so why would you want to do it without me?

AllHipHop.com: So y’all gonna make that happen?

The Game: We got to make it happen. Dre reached out and expressed that he wanted me to be a part of Detox and I also let Dre know that when it’s time for Detox just holla at me, I’m there whether you do my record or not just on the strength of what I owe you for helping me feed my sons and take care of my family and taking me from Compton when I walk inside my million dollar home or when I’m driving my Lamborghini or Range Rover. I used to be an Impala with no hydraulics n***a  you know what I’m sayin’ and now you know a n***a movin Phantoms through the city and still 28 years old man. I’m doing it my way out here thanks to Dre so when he needs me for Detox just holla at me.

AllHipHop.com: You just mentioned a fourth album. You were retiring a year ago or something like that. You announced that this was going to be your last album.

The Game: It still might be my last album, man I don’t know man because just the appreciation level of good music has depreciated. I don’t like how if people knew what it took, like somebody need [to create a] reality show on creating an album from scratch ‘til when it’s done so people can see actually what the f**k is going on. People don’t really appreciate music like they used to and it’s only because they don’t know.  I just say that Hip-Hop  always changes faces and it was down all last year—record sales weren’t how they were supposed to be but I think it’s gonna lift. I’ll be around for that, but if not, then why do it man when I got scripts coming in every other day? And  people  want me to read scripts for these movies and, you know, it’s bigger money out there man.

AllHipHop.com: You mentioned albums like it’s not a whole lot of focus on albums right now, mostly like ringtones and singles and stuff like that.

    "Somebody need [to create a] reality show on like creating an album from scratch ‘til when it’s done so people can see actually what the f**k is going on. People don’t really appreciate music like they used to..."

The Game: Look at that s**t.

AllHipHop.com: What do you think of that?

The Game: We Hip-Hop and we’re focused on ringtones and singles, man. I don’t know I just think that that’s bad, man. I think it's trouble. I think that ringtones are great everybody want their phone to jingy jingiling,  I keep mine’s on silent so my silent ringtone cost zero dollars and it ring all day so I mean ringtones is cool. Kids love’em and it’s all good, it’s made me some money it makes all these young Souljah Boys and all these other cats a little cheese so I’m not mad.

AllHipHop.com: You worked with Kanye. Since Kanye dropped it’s like a whole new crop of sort of hip/artsy rappers. They call them the ‘hipsters’ what’s your opinion on those type of rappers?

The Game: Them n***as need a new name first. The hipsters that sound like a f***in group at the convalescence home or some s**t — the hipsters. That n***a better not be like, “Yo I’m a hipster.” That ain’t cool. But yeah man like I said about the ringtones man to each his own man. No matter what people say, like I said, Hip-Hop has difference faces and when it’s on, whatever it’s on, you just appreciate it and it changes again and the way that you appreciate.

AllHipHop.com: You might work with some of them at some point?

The Game: I’ll just take the leader of them, Kanye. I work with Kanye, you know, the leader of the hipsters and that’s my man. I leave the little mini-hipsters to everybody else man.

AllHipHop.com: You’re in the new movie Street Kings. Where are you trying to take the acting?

The Game: I get a lot of scripts man and I’m just reading ’em and try to take it serious. I been in my acting classes, I got a coach. It’s something I want to take serious because I’m already getting big checks just off of who I am in music, but once I get one of those key roles and kill it and get that Grammy nomination up. I don’t care if I ever win a Grammy ever, just get that nominated man.

AllHipHop.com: You haven’t been nominated for a Grammy yet?

The Game: I’ve been nominated on the music side but I’m talking about on the…

AllHipHop.com: Oscar….

The Game: Yeah an Oscar, see I got it mixed up. I don’t know s**t about acting but I’ma get it done. If I can end being an actor then it’s dope because that never ends for you. Look at Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman, them is old cats still puttin’ it down and been puttin’ it down.

AllHipHop.com: Who you got in the election? Who you going for?

The Game: Man, I’m goin’ for the n***a man. Obama. Man I don’t give a f**k what he talkin’ bout I ain’t heard Obama say nothin’. I just know that n***a black and he about to win this s**t. Hillary need to fall back man. I’m going for Obama man, that n***a could say I’m going to kill every n***a in the hood when I get in there – I’m going for Obama man. That’s it. Gotta see a Black man, man I’m biased man. I’m biased.

AllHipHop.com: So you have no other reason than that?

The Game: No, I’m following the n****s. Goin’ in.

AllHipHop.com: Alright, but you know you got kids now you –

The Game: N***er. N***ers, following the n***ers, man, to the underground railroad ‘til we find the light we goin’ all the way to the White House man, gotta see that. If you Black and you don’t vote for Obama you just need to find a revolver spin that b***h and pop ‘til your noodles’ on the f***in side of the bed man. That’s just a no brainer man. That’s so big man! A Black dude running [for president] – where the f**k did Obama come from man? You sure he ain’t Osama’s nephew or son? Like Obama just out of nowhere - just Obama. We’ve been knowing about Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton all of a sudden, n***a,  like a year ago [a] light skinned n***a lookin’ like Tiger Woods’ brother just runnin’ for president and I don’t know man it’s a conspiracy. [Laughs]

AllHipHop.com: He’s not really from the Civil Rights Movement which is part of  why we didn’t know about him – he’s not  like a Jesse or Al from seeing them from back in the day.

The Game: So you’re sayin’ he ain’t like a real n***a? Because I don’t think Obama would like you sayin’ he ain’t a real n***a.


AllHipHop.com: No, he did his thing back in the Democratic Convention a couple of years ago that’s when everybody heard of him nationally.

The Game: I want to see his high school pictures and s**t if they exist you see that n***a playin’ with some little n****s when he was little.

AllHipHop.com: He was nice on the basketball court.

The Game: You seen like a picture of him doing a lay-up?

AllHipHop.com: I’ve seen it on YouTube.

The Game: But today though, these day and times?

AllHipHop.com: Not recently.

The Game: You ain’t seen no back in the day he was in high school hoopin’.

AllHipHop.com: I’ve seen him play ball back in the day, not recently.

The Game: Ohh, alright so he is an official n***a. So he ain’t just come from Iraq, thinkin’ they tryin’ to sneak a terrorist up in the White House man, but yeah he look Black to me so I’m votin’ for him, man.

[Elano]

Dre can’t finish Detox without me man, I’m the West coast man. I’m the West coast man, Snoop he was the West coast when he was the West coast Snoop’s the King of the Coast, but he’s like iconic, he’s a legend already. But West coast now, that’s me. You can’t do it now without me. You can’t do nothing without me man

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[Meho]

Good interview. I was really shocked when he mentioned the 4th album  Good stuff about him wokring with all the features in the studio though, Luda and Keyshia Cole sounds dope, Lil Wayne not so much. I'm also a lil worried how he described the album, looks like it's gonna be more universal. You have to laugh about the whole Dre thing "Man, I was supposed to go see Dre this week man, but then I was supposed to see Dre last week, I was supposed to see Dre the week before last man" 

And I still don't get why he's thanking Dre, like he saved his life. Dre signs a bunch of rappers, anybody can do that but you gotta put your album in the stores. And 50 is the reason why that happened, not Dre.

[1234]

That was one of the best Game interviews ever. Game is so fuckin funny man with that Obama shit. Hella props.

[Styles1]

The Obama segment between Game and Jigsaw is funny as hell....

[Maully aka [Fitted Da Boss]]

yo game is a funny dude...props 4 postin this...i agree wit him about the name droppin...if u dont like it...save yaself some gas money and dont buy his shit period. i wana hear that joint wit Luda tho...

[1234]

I was real glad to hear Game said it would actually be a very Summer Westcoast album.

[when it rains it pours]

Damn, this means that detox aint even comin out in the near future, and LMAO at the obama conversation. Haha get yo vote on

[Tha G In Deee]

yo game is a funny dude...props 4 postin this...

[RHustle]

looking forward to LAX!

[AnybodyKilla]

I was real glad to hear Game said it would actually be a very Summer Westcoast album.

Propz for the interview. And yah i like the summer vibe shit too, Game makes dope summer songs!!!

[Lunatic]

props, also laughed when he said 4th album, glad the interviewer asked about that. can't wait 2 hear the album and honestly i dont care if dre is on it or not.

[AnybodyKilla]

props, also laughed when he said 4th album, glad the interviewer asked about that. can't wait 2 hear the album and honestly i dont care if dre is on it or not.

I do man, Dre/Game u just know its gonna be on another level. I know all these other producers are really good or just as good but come on man its Dre/Game!!!

[when it rains it pours]

props, also laughed when he said 4th album, glad the interviewer asked about that. can't wait 2 hear the album and honestly i dont care if dre is on it or not.

I do man, Dre/Game u just know its gonna be on another level. I know all these other producers are really good or just as good but come on man its Dre/Game!!!

hell yea man, dre and game....that shit would be classic

[messi19]

Anybody know when Part 2 is comin..Styles?