good to hear an album of his that isn't just him doing impressions of other rappers

thoughts?

Fuck a sig.

>good to hear an album of his that isn't just him doing
>impressions of other rappers

what?

i'm on track 5 and he already had a TPAB type of song and he's currently biting biggie flow...lol

He toned down the steez-biting dramatically on this one. And the some of the songs on the second half of disc one aren't my kind of music, but for a rapper like Game this is very well put together.

>He toned down the steez-biting dramatically on this one. And
>the some of the songs on the second half of disc one aren't my
>kind of music, but for a rapper like Game this is very well
>put together.

And, I had to pass on purchasing Jesus Piece. Just couldn't do it.

I'll tell anyone to download or cop Operation Kill Everything first. Much better project.

Come to grips with the fact that most OKP's are of the Nut Hugger lineage, so, if you' re not part of the little cliques that exist 'round here, your posts will probably tank like Souljaboy's album sales.

I was just saying that Jesus Piece was full of the impressions that the poster I replied to described, and Doc2 is muuuuch better.

you'll definitely enjoy this one. a little long, but still quality overall.

Fuck a sig.

lets see if disc 2 is any better but i have zero expectations now

but otherwise, game sucks.

probably the most boring rapper..ever.

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but even though he's not just emulating whatever rapper is featured on the same song, as you said, he's not a compelling rapper. also, disc 1 alone is too long.

Fuck a sig.

That was atrocious. Seriously one of the worst albums I've heard in the past couple years. It's got me gun shy to listen to this one.

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>That was atrocious. Seriously one of the worst albums I've
>heard in the past couple years. It's got me gun shy to listen
>to this one.

It's just that he was at his worst lyrically. I would never say he's the least compelling rapper, but on that project, he was shooting for the title.

Come to grips with the fact that most OKP's are of the Nut Hugger lineage, so, if you' re not part of the little cliques that exist 'round here, your posts will probably tank like Souljaboy's album sales.

Which is too bad cause I like Game.

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It would explain how he gets such great features and beats despite being one of the most obviously unimpressive famous rappers ever. Like "yo Wayne, you thought that kiss picture was weird? I got the farm animal pics homie."

The "homie discount" can only get you so far right.

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Game has struck me as the one who's actually cool with most of these rappers he collaborates with. He'll shout them out in interviews even before working with them. He references/pays homage to a lot of these guys so much in his lyrics, and they probably respect how long he's been around too, so I'm not surprised that he can get so many features every time.

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certainly better than his last few

nothing else stood out crazy to me... The "kick in the door" beat one kinda knocks

Ya'll tripping. This is a good album. Yes, it is a little long and some of the fluff needs to be cut, but the bangers outweigh the dead weight.

First off, I really like the who 90's tribute that he did throughout the first five tracks and the second half of Circles. I really wish he had stuff to that for the whole disc and then maybe a west coast tribute on 2.5.

I don't really care for Dollar and a Dream, Made In America and Hashtag. The bass on Dollar and a Dream is fighting with the lead vocals and the LONG ASS intro on Hashtag is just unnecessary.

It was great to see Mike Will Made it make a track for the heads with Summertime.

I'm also not really convinced of Jelly Roll as a singer. He needs a little more voice training under his belt. I see they got him trying to do the whole Kokane-type crooning but it doesn't really come off that well. Should have just got Kokane.

Come to grips with the fact that most OKP's are of the Nut Hugger lineage, so, if you' re not part of the little cliques that exist 'round here, your posts will probably tank like Souljaboy's album sales.

strong album. I have no idea what u some of ya;ll r talking about. He's def. toned down the name dropping.....A lot...

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

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it has a few eh tracks but like someone said before...

the bangers outweighs it by a ton...

this beat is crack and you hear the dre contribution during the verses... prhyme is a classic but even beyond that he's dropped a ton of fire over the past 12-15 months, remixes for lion babe and alunageorge, a bunch of underground hip hop shit, this, the dre track, etc

he has plenty, but man, this album is good as shit.

can't wait to see what Disc 2 has in store.

>he has plenty, but man, this album is good as shit.
>
>can't wait to see what Disc 2 has in store.

Shockingly small amount of filler for a double album.

I'm definitely gonna have to make my own split playlist of the songs...because inside the 30 plus tracks there's a creative album, and a really ignorant west coast album.

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it took 10 years for game to rap over beats from west coast producers outside of the dre cirle...better late than never i guess

oh and the ghetto is amazing. i wonder if this is a recent will.iam beat

Game put his foot in this album. He's on his A game and the beats go. Only three or four track I'd toss out the rest is pure heat. 9/10

About halfway through the album I thought to myself, "Wow, I'm liking this album waaaaaay more than I thought I would." Then, after "Circles," it starts to all blend together. About the only two tracks I liked on the second half of the album are the Primo track and maybe "LA."

The beats are the strong point of the album. And everything from "On Me" to "Dollar and a Dream" is really good. I still think he's pretty bland lyrically. He's cut down on the name dropping, but it's still there. And while it's not as bad as usual, it's still noticeable.

It's definitely overlong as well. I'm not one of those people who doesn't like longer albums on principle, but this one definitely starts to drag.

So while I say it's a BIG improvement from that Blood of the Wolf album, it's not as good as the first Documentary. Or probably even Jesus Piece (which I liked a lot).

I'll listen to 2.5 tomorrow.

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Well, I will say the track with Nas is flames. The chemistry these two have in making tracks together continues. Might be the best song on the entire endeavor. Other than that, the only other songs that stood out was the one with Schoolboy and Jay Rock, and the last two tracks on the album (the song about his sons especially).

But in this case, two and a half hours of this album is just two much. I appreciate the effort into making this a sort of "mixtape", especially the first disc, but I don't ever see listening to the ENTIRE thing ever again.

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I like Game but haven't really checked for much of his stuff since Doctor's Advocate. But I really like this. The beats are damn good and I like his flow on this album. Really the only tracks I don't really care for are the song with Diddy and the Hashtag song which is one of the two most miserable songs I've ever heard on an otherwise good album (the other being Summer on Smash).

The Primo track backs. My other favorite right now is probably Dollar and a Dream. Ab Soul is the man. I like the track with Snoop too.

Someone explain to me what this 2.5 business is? Where can I hear it? If it's "disc 2" why isn't it available along with "disc 1" on Spotify? Help.

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>Someone explain to me what this 2.5 business is? Where can I
>hear it? If it's "disc 2" why isn't it available along with
>"disc 1" on Spotify? Help.

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Should be on spotify after that

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is game that well liked by everyone that they just throw him shit for free? shit crazy

anyway i listened to some of TD2 at work and I like what i hear. Game is straight when he actually tries. Jesus Piece was dope.

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The Game is one of my "guilty pleasure" rappers. In the years where I was strictly your stereotypical backpacker who only listened to "real hip hop", LAX was the first non-typical underground/conscious album I got into after 4-5 years or so Game has, in my opinion, built up a very respectable catalog. Outside of Jesus Piece all of his albums are solid, and this might be his best since The Documentary.

The first disc (TD2) is really, really good. It's everything you'd expect from a Game album (feature heavy, riding the style of whoever he's rapping with) and if that's not your thing, fair enough, but what Game does great is picking excellent production and making enjoyable music to the ears. It's not always deep, I don't need rapgenius for annotations and footnotes, but he's got some great lines, solid hooks and knows his lane and limitations. A song like "Bitch You Ain't Shit" isn't going to be preserved in any music history museum but it's fun as fuck. Same with "Hashtag". The will.i.am tracks (two on 2, and "The Ghetto" on 2.5) are all great, and I wish he would do more hip hop producing. Thinking back he had my favorite track on Doctor's Advocate ("Compton") as well.

The songs with Kendrick and Ab-Soul are both highlights, I could care less about the beat-biting tracks ("Step Up", "Standing on Ferraris"), they sound good to me. A bunch of tracks have the vintage west coast sound that Game sounds most comfortable on, and I feel like he's been missing since Doctor's Advocate, and all of "Circles" is phenomenal. I wish I had no knowledge of the Q-Tip feature beforehand though as I would have been really flipping out at the beat switch and surprise verse at the end. The Kanye track really grew on me, but I'm still meh on the Drake one. "The Documentary 2" is one of the best songs in Game's discography.

2.5 starts our great, "Crenshaw / 80s and Cocaine", "Gang Bang Anyway", "The Ghetto" and "From Adam" are four great tracks in a row, but after that it really dives IMO and the only other standout for me is "Like Father, Like Son 2", though I could do without the appearances of his kids. I threw those five tracks in a playlists with the first disc (minus the skits, the Future track and a few others towards the end) and that's what I'll go back and listen to from this point forward as "The Documentary 2".

IMO this is more of what I was hoping for with Compton and it's honestly my favorite hip hop album of 2015. If Game's not your thing though, don't bother, this isn't for you.

I never quite understood it

But this dude can seriously put together a record

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Hadn't been to Hollywood in a minute. Went last week to amoeba to get The Documentary 2. Stop off at that french bistro on cahuenga after i cop Game & jay rock. look to my left and see Fat Lip.


he looked really bad. legend, though.



Go to Hollywood again today to cop Documentary 2.5 and immediately bump into DJ Quik perusing the soul section.


I was two for two in elderly west coast legends and Game two for two with these records. And he needed it because his last 2 albums were weak.

Who am kidding, who am I fooling, when they be like, what's up fat lip and I say cooling.


wtf. someone needs to scoop him up, dry him out, and put him on.

I listened to Doc 2 last week. First six songs are so were pretty dope, I was surprised but then it all started to sound the same kinda.

Just too much material to digest and Game doesn't always
keep me engaged if the beat ain't my fav.

Doing research for a paper on this beautiful Sunday.
Ordered a pizza.
Watching football.
Now checking this 2.5 album.
This is like a West Coast album, totally different from the other album lol.

How does he afford to put together not one but two feature filled,
big named producer filled, excellently mixed projects on E1?

E1 work with 538? They know that the ROI gonna come through w Game?

I mean goddamn.

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I had to double check if it wasn't Black Rob, had me fooled there for a minute.

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not alot of name dropping and jacking and the fact that this turkey still got a career is worth hearing in itself.

production on his records ain't never been the problem for me, its been the studio acting which didn't work, however for him this ain't bad and the game always been in the middle 2nd tier high 3rd tier level as a MC to me, however this ain't bad

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Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

you like Doc 2 and 2.5?

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however i will say he stays consistant with what he does
and he plays his lane well.

he ain't great or even in that very good or really good lane, however you will listen to him though. he gets over.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

2.5 feels like a West Coast album should made 2 just an all East Coast disc since he does that style well.

coulda maybe allowed me to pull from both and make one good full album of east and west.

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Some stuff on here tho. But waaay too many diff. visions/directions for one project IMHO...

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He's possibly a top three chameleon in Rap history.

His content and name dropping is still overwhelming, and he's polarizing even to his fans....you'll be nodding your head hard and then say "why the FUCK he say _______ though???"

Production is definitely a good 9/10. No true super standout/classic singles, but plenty great tracks.

And man, we went to his album release at Playhouse, and dude seriously has problems. He was super drunk, talking extremely reckless on the mic.

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Ha. That's some funny shit

Gotta say, I've been listening to this album non-stop for the last couple days. I think it's solid all around. I don't mind all the name dropping, etcs. because dude can rhyme and beats are right.

would have love to have heard what he was going on about in the mic at that party!

werd.

Maaaan that shit would go sooooo hard in L.A. clubs if it was full song

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Really need to find an instrumental to this. No idea why this isn't a full song.

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I did not expect to enjoy these projects this much. It's right up there with albums I never would have checked otherwise but have much replay value (see Big Sean.)

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>good to hear an album of his that isn't just him doing
>impressions of other rappers
>
>thoughts?

The thing about the Game that gets me...he usually tries to make 'good albums' in the way that rappers would do 20 or so years a go. I'm a sucker for that. Me and him like the same stuff. Maybe this stuff is basically for old heads who don't 'need' to hear 52 minutes of mumbling (Drake brought it into wun hunnid), turnup, and that stuff on new releases.

So yeah...I am enjoying listening to these two albums. There's several songs that run through my head over and over to the point where I HAVE to listen to it. Catchy maybe? Whatever...I'm liking this stuff.

I've viewed Game like this for a long time:

So much of rap music's...errr...base is previously released music...mostly funk, jazz, and other 70s stuff. In that way, Game's 'base' is previously released RAP music, a basic set of rap template topics/stances (where you're from, semi-political, looking inward, namedropping, where you see yourself in the landscape) and generally legendary rappers. Nas is the main one he can't get away from.

So...the 'impersonations' and 'jacks' are similar to what I hear when a singer makes songs with the intention of capturing and/or rekindling 'feelings' from *insert template act here*..oftentimes not adding a great deal of 'new' stuff with it.

Squirrelly explanations aside, it is pretty clearly Game's thing to impersonate in an obvious way. I thought he made that clear on the first album and has continuously proved it since then. AKA he's not trying to sneak around with it or act like he's 'coming up with' these styles, deliveries, and tones. So I'm not gonna pull out a 1988 'rap rulebook' and use that to hold it against him.

Hiphop in general has been staring hard in the rear view mirror for at least 20 years now. Game is a product of that.

Documentary 2 and 2.5:

This is NOT a Black Messiah or TPAB or T&Y where I listen to it and think that I'm hearing something that transcends or something that should send fools back to the studio to erase their shit and start over.

But I hear a large set of unreasonably organized and AT LEAST generally jamming songs from a dude who I would've comfortably considered all but done years ago.

When I look at the tracklisting and count the songs I'm at least 'fine' with, I get somewhere in the 20s. That has to be good, right? Of course, I could do the whole 'cut it down to one' thing that we all tend to do with ALL double albums. But shit's digital now so what's the point of trying to 'get down' to 75 minutes? I'll make a playlist, it'll be as long as it is, and I'll laugh every time I hear him going full Suga Free on Quik's Groove.

Zoomed out: this dude has proven himself (again) to be a clearly capable (even if he's 'simple') rapper who is just about high end when it comes to 'selecting beats', 'making songs', and 'packaging songs in bundles'. The interludes and the bridges between the songs? I'm a sucker for that stuff most of the time. It shows 'effort'..especially the mixing and the hinting into the next song. I'm a sucker for that too. And don't even ask me about the beat switches, which can basically make me like most songs.

I hear some spitting on some of these songs too. I think I'm always gonna be cool with that too.

And yes...he's hip-hop's most habitual line-stepper / 'say stuff you probably shouldn't say' dude. That's kinda his thing too. Imagine if he wasn't...how many more folks would be on his albums? The guest list on this thing is insane even if he 'just' got a hook from a few folks. And somehow, Game manages to spit enough to where he's the star of the whole album (even tho Paak wrecked it in his spots). This seems like a lot of the stuff folks tend to say they want all in one bundle. So for me...I'm good. I'll vouch for this for now and see if it dramatically grows off of me.

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