Will Hagle takes a look at the Compton rap scene from the perspective of The Game's new album.

Harold Stallworth has a pink suit on layaway. The Game’s latest DJ Skee-curated mixtape, Operation Kill Everything, will probably get lost in the ether of Datpiff fodder, and that’s okay. He’s one of the few rappers smart enough to save most of his stellar records for retail albums. But at 19 tracks deep, he was […]

The Game-Holy Water Music Video from Taydoe Kidd on Vimeo. Deen once drank Holy Water before an exam. He thinks it gave him dysentery. I get the distinct impression that no one really cares about Game anymore. With every passing project, Jayceon seems to slip further into dreaded “irrelevance.” Between his antics – which while […]

Max Bell went to Catholic School. Game has probably never been to a seminary or rocked Franciscan Monk brown. I doubt he says the Rosary before hopping into his Phantom. But his Soundcloud name is “jesuspiece,” both after the popular medallion and in accordance with his upcoming December 11 album, called, (surprise), Jesus Piece. And […]

You haven’t lived unless you’ve stood beside a gold-smothered seraglio of nude C-list models alternately texting and fake fawning over a Compton rapper famed for his gangbang past. Presumably, Game’s one-hour harem is similarly famous for their gangbang present.  Even more mystifying was the Weekly cover girls’s ability to name-drop more than Jayceon Taylor, letting […]

First “Zombie Nation” now a Pearl Jam sample. Jayceon Taylor is going for that brodown Bonnaroo money come hell or hydraulics. “Rough” posted for posterity, but also because I am partial to “emo” Game. See also: “My Life,” all of “Doctor’s Advocate,” none of that stupid facial tatoo. Emotional > sensitive. Really rappers, stop bitching […]