*NEW* The Game interview

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At the young age of 24, The Game, a.k.a. Jayceon Taylor, has already been through more drama in his life than most people in two lifetimes. From living in a group home, to gang-banging, to getting shot 5 times and left for dead, this Compton, California native has been though hell and back. Now, under the guidance of one of the most respected producers in the game, Dr. Dre, and the release of his debut album, The Game Vol.1, the West Coast has officially been re-instated. And for those that thought the game was over for West Coast gangster rap since Snoop turned Pimp… think again. The Game has just begun.
: How did you get started as an artist?
G: I was raised in West Side Compton and basically I ran behind my brothers. My early influences with this whole hip hop shit was NWA, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube in the early days. I was influenced and turned on to them by my older brothers. That was the first time I can remember listening to Hip Hop because I stole my brother's CDs. It was NWA, Snoop Dogg, Spice One and all those West Coast MC's. But, as I got older, I became a big fan of the rap shit and ultimately in October 2001 I started rapping. I just started a buzz for myself. I started here in Compton and everybody was running around raving about the new nigga and he's from Compton and he's The Game but they couldn't put Game with Jason Taylor. Even motherfuckers I went to High School with that knew me didn't know the Game was me. All they were hearing was the music, so I put it down for a couple months and the CD got to somebody that sent it to somebody who knew Dre. Dre heard the song and he wanted to sign me. It was pretty much a rap at that point.


: Why did you choose to name yourself THE GAME?
G: I got the name from my grandmother. When I was young, I was real active, I was into a lot of shit, so she would say I was game for anything. I wasn't scared of dogs, or playing in the dirt, I wasn't scared to pick up roaches and play with rats. I played basketball, football, baseball, and ran track, I was real active as a kid, so my grandmother said I was game for anything. I ran with that so when it was time to pick a rap name, it was already there.


: You were shot 5 times, can you shed some light on the shooting?
G: Yeah, I shed a little light on it, but I don't really want to go into details. My brother and I Big Face, had a spot. Anytime that you're doing something successfully, no matter what it is, selling drugs or the best point guard in the NBA, people want to hate you down out of the spot, because they feel that they deserve that more than you. We were selling drugs and my brother and I were making a lot of money and we kind of took over these whole projects. We came in the projects and other people were making money and we ran everybody out and kind of took over. It was only a certain amount of time before niggas got mad and came back and try to do something. The incident when I got shot was actually the third attempt to rob us. The first two times, we made it out doing whatever the fuck we did to run them out. The third time was at 2 a.m. on October 1 and we get a knock on the door. We usually shut down shop around 12 o'clock, but I was greedy. I looked through the peephole, opened the door trying to get this quick three, four hundred dollars and three niggas kicked down the door. I flew, then threw down. They just came in and tried to rob me, but I ain't no punk ass nigga, I ain't having that. I jump up and get to fighting with the biggest nigga with the gun and we wrestling and tustling on the ground and I start winning the fight, easing the gun out his hand and he starts shooting. I ended up getting shot five times, going through a short-lived coma, and waking up in the end.


: What's Black Wall Street?
G: Black Wall Street is bigger than a record label. I don't call it Black Wall Street Records because I don't want anyone to minimize the access to my company. So we just going to leave it as Black Wall Street. That's my shit. I'm the C.E.O. and I'm the only C.E.O. My brother is the C.O.O. I got Fat Rap, my nigga D Mackin, a couple other of my business partner, Baron Davis, but I'm the C.E.O. of Black Wall Street.


: I've noticed through your endorsement deals and Black Wall Street that you're business savvy.
G: You know, I've been dealing with business my whole life whether it be my drug deals or help my best friend Baron Davis through his NBA contracts. I'm just real business savvy with my shit. That's one of the reasons why I did what I did successfully in the hood and never been to jail, you feel me. There's an order of operations to everything with me and this shit is serious, it's my life. Now I have a kid, he's one and a half, and he's starting to know what's what. I really have to put it down for him. Right now, I'm putting down my album and the only thing I'm focused on now is getting my endorsement deals I place. I'm pretty sure you've seen the Boost Mobile commercials by now. I got that, I went out and got that myself. You got Ludacris and Kanye West, these niggas done sold millions of records and I ain't sold shit. I get on the Boost Mobile commercials. It's a fucking national campaign.


: With the success of Shady/ G-Unit/ Aftermath artists, are you nervous?
G: I don't give a fuck whether people respect me. At the end of the day, I'm out to please me. My album is not your life, it's not fucking none of my fans' life, you know what I'm saying. I love that people appreciate my music and love what I'm doing, but at the end of the day, I'm just telling my life story and putting into a rhyme and lyrics like a form of poetry, by way of gangster rap. Listen to my music, don't listen to my music, I don't care. Really, I don't care. At the end of the day, we all have to sit in the corner and die by ourselves. I can't hold your hand nor can you hold mine or I hold my son's or you hold your kid's. That's why we as adults, if we have kids, nieces, or nephews, we teach them to be the best man or the best woman they can be because that day is coming. At the end of the day, people always ask me, "What about the weight on your shoulders, the pressure?" Man, fuck that. I'm a grown ass man, I handle my business accordingly. I don't feel that the job is too big for me because I'm on earth and by God's will, I'm strong enough to carry out all the missions.


: How was it like to work with Dre?
G: Working with Dre is a gift from God. I don't think there's any artist in Hip Hop, or any genre of music, that wouldn't want to work with Dre. You have rock stars and country artists that would love to work with Dre, man, and for me to be in that Snoop Dogg mode, that Eminem mode, you know what I'm saying, of the years past, is a beautiful thing to me. I'm happy to be in the position that I am. I know niggas wish that they had the chance to work with this nigga, get six, seven Dr. Dre beats. I got more beats on my album from than Eminem or Fifty ever got. Working with Dre is like…. This dude has been in the game twenty plus years putting it down at the top of the game. He used to fuck with Quincy Jones, the best producer to ever live in this hip hop shit and I'm the next protigee? I can't begin to get you to feel where I'm coming from when I tell you that working with Dre is nothing short of a fucking miracle.


: Who are some of the producers you work with on this album?
G: I work with Kanye West, Just Blaze, Timberland, Swizz Beats, D-12, Buck Wild, even though he real Old G, who else? I haven't had a chance to work with the Neptunes, but Pharell promised me a few beats on my next album, so we'll see where that goes.


: You have a serious love for Easy-E. How did he influence you?
G: I had a chance to meet Eric when I was real young. Growing up in Compton, because he was always around, you didn't have to look for Eazy because he was always around. He was always in the hood. If he wasn't giving out gifts on Christmas, he was giving out money. This dude was a self-made millionaire. You have a guy who went from a drug dealer in Compton to one of the biggest C.E.O.'s. These niggas Puff Daddy and Dre, they all came from that mold. Baby, Slim, and Cash Money, Eazy did that. Why niggas acting like Eazy ain't take his company without any videos and any airplay. That nigga sold a million records with no videos, dog. I'm from Compton and Eazy is my motherfucking hero. I'm going to rep Eazy until the day I die. NWA for life.


: Any featured artists on the album?
G: Of course I have my G-Unit counterparts. I have Dre, Nate, and Snoop Dogg. I have Mary J. and that's big for me. If I die, my nigga, I did a song with Mary J. Blige. That's one of my favorite J lines. For me to make that a reality was a beautiful thing. That's pretty much it. I think I got all the people I needed to have album become what it is.


: Any last words for our readers as to why they should go out and buy your album?
G: I would say if you care anything about the future of hip hop, then you would go and buy my album because I'm about to change the face of hip hop. I'm about to take it back to the hip hopper mode versus this bubble gum bullshit we hearing on the damn radio; a new rising in America, a universal M. C.


:Any last words for your Enemies?
G: My last words to my enemies are, "Close your mouth or come kill me." I cut no corners with my shit. Like I said, I'm a man, and ultimately, the only thing that we know for sure on earth is that we're going to die, so who I'm running from? Nobody. Fuck these niggas, they could suck my dick and when I see them I'm going to break their bones.

[_That_Cracka_J]

Nice interview...but LOL at the "bubble game shit on the radio"...IMO, G-Unit songs on the radio are just that!  I like G-Unit, but the singles that always come out are too soft IMO.

Close you mouth or come kill me?   

[King Of L.A.]

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Close you mouth or come kill me?   

he a gangsta, thats why  L O L

[STILLDRE IS THE GODFATHER]

nice interview he comes across better on this interview but lol at ill break your bones

[Machiavelli]

: Any last words for our readers as to why they should go out and buy your album?
G: I would say if you care anything about the future of hip hop, then you would go and buy my album because I'm about to change the face of hip hop. I'm about to take it back to the hip hopper mode versus this bubble gum bullshit we hearing on the damn radio a new rising in America, a universal M. C.

wow...Talk about hypocrisy