]]> http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=2178 11 http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=1861 http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=1861#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:25:59 +0000 Dedicato http://www.aftermathmusic.com/blog/?p=1861 Game’s R.E.D. Album has reportedly suffered another setback and will not hit shelves in early July. According to reports, his album does not have a new release date.

The R.E.D. Album was originally due in stores on June 15th, but that date was changed to June 29th. The next release date given for the rapper’s fourth studio album was listed as July 6th, but that date has been pushed back as well. While an exact release date has yet-to-be confirmed, the album should land in stores this Summer.

According to sources close to Game, he canceled a series of listening sessions slated to take place this week, so that he could focus on recording new material for the R.E.D. Album.

What up fam,
I met Dr. Dre in the studio last night. When I got there Snoop was in the booth laying the finishing touches on another classic from the dynamic duo. He played me some tracks set for the up and coming Detox record and we talked about me jumping on board the project. Of course I talked about him doing shit on my record and he said he’d bless the album. The Game came through ready to spit but Dre just wanted every to vibe. It felt like old times when me and Dre would work on shit in Eazy’s cold ass garage.

He asked me did I diss him during the Paid Dues Show last Saturday. I did one of my new songs called “Drink The Kool-Aid” which got everybody thinking I’m dissing the whole industry…lol “You internet roaches…” I told Dre that I’d never diss the man that got me started.

No disses. Just style and grace. On another note, I rocked the fuck outta Paid Dues. I had my son Doughboy get down wit me while WC and Crazy Toones rocked France. I think people enjoyed the show. 20 years of West Coast hip-hop presented in 60mins. It was amazing. I can’t wait to put the new show together with all my new songs. I also dropped the single “I REP THAT WEST” on’em. They loved the new shit. The single and the video will premiere and be avaliable right here on icecube.com May26th.

My nigga Sir Jinx laced my wit a dope ass track. I’mma do it wit Jayo Felony and WC. This record is coming together like sweaty ass cheeks…
No Q & A this time ya’ll. I’m in a hurry. I’ll answer all questions next time.
Keep It Gangsta
Cube
(www.IceCube.com)

“I feel great about this album,” he said recently after going over tracks at Dr. Dre’s house. “It’s back full-force Aftermath and I’m conjoined with Star Trak.” (Pharrell Williams is one of the LP’s executive producers.) “I got this colorful movement over here where it’s beautiful music on this side [with Star Trak] — then when I need to go dark or super grown and sexy, I got Dre over here. The combination is crazy — mixed in with a Cool & Dre track and RZA track and all the sh– I been doing. The only person I’m upset I didn’t work with on this album is DJ Premier. I feel his sh– would have been perfect for this all-star producer cast that I have. One Premier track would have did me just fine. I would have murdered that sh–. But we ain’t get it in, ’cause he was doing a whole bunch of sh– for Christina Aguilera. I’m just Game. So I gotta just wait for the next album.”

The Compton MC said he lets the fans know from the start of the album that he’s not playing.

“They got the intro to the album, which is titled ‘Infrared,’ “ Game said of Cool & Dre. “It’s one of them joints that Shaheem is gonna love. All the real hip-hop fans, to hear me rap, how I’m rapping on my intro, it’s gonna f— people up. Before you get to #2, you gonna already know I’m serious. I’m spitting. I go in. I done played this for RZA, Dre, Pharrell — all the people who heard this is like, ‘N—a, that’s crazy!’ I haven’t spit like I’m spitting on the intro since ‘300 Bars.’ I touched every topic. Everything involving me, I touched.”

We’ll get a prelude to Game’s work with Cool & Dre on a song called “Shake,” as it’s one of the highlights on his upcoming Gangsta Grillz mixtape with DJ Drama, All Red Everything. Game tells a mayhem-filled story over the beat that incorporates the looped word “shake” throughout.

” ‘Shake’ is bad, man,” Game said. ” ‘Shake’ is crazy. Cool & Dre brought it in and I went through the ’shakes.’ I told the story, cutting myself off right before the ’shake’ came in [on the track]. I didn’t write none of that down. I went in and said the whole sh– straight through. You know what it is about them?” he asked about Cool & Dre. “They are more like my brothers. I can go in with the any moment and make a song. The streets is gonna f— with it.”

And, on some level, they do have a valid argument. With the global economy tilted like your local pool hall’s pinball machine and Cali penitentiaries hella crowded like public housing, things just ain’t the same for gangstas. Consequently, it’s back to bangin’ for way too real estate and slangin’ rocks for rims in a dope spot nowhere near you.

Knowing his golden state is a little bang’d up, THE GAME g-rides through rap’s OZONE layer leaking crimson R.E.D. comments. Chilled out in a so-Cal burger joint, we rapped about why he’s so much smarter at 30, why he and 50 never should have dismantled the “Black Beatles,” and why his R.E.D. Album is his most street of all. Get The Game str8 from Chuck Taylor’s bloody mouth.

They say gangsta gap is dead, G! Is that true?
That’s obviously somebody’s opinion. It ain’t mine. But I will say that what niggas consider “gangsta” is changing. Like, the hardest niggas I’d ever seen in the hood are wearing suits now. Dressing it up. Being more professional about themselves and aiming more at money than each other. Niggas in the hood are taking better care of their families and shit now, at least more than before. But as far as gangsta rap, as long as I got Eazy Duz It and Doggystyle spinnin’ in my changer, gangsta rap will never die.

Is society safer now that these youngsters are tryin’ to be Drake and Wale instead of Game and Snoop? Especially on the West Coast?
I’m loving the West Coast right now. Most niggas out here are on chill and, like I said, focused more on money than mayhem. Don’t get it twisted though. You can still turn the wrong corner and get your melon split, but everyone is on that cool shit. I call it the “Drake Era,” and you can print that in bold. I fuck with Drake because he is leading this sort of cool movement that is contagious right now in Hip Hop. I wish ‘Pac had lived to see Cali on cool like this.

When you arrived in Hip Hop, around ’02, you were grinding to get you and the homies out of the hood. You were driven to build Black Wall Street. You’re rich now and established. What’s the motivation today?
Two boys, my sons. One is six years old and the other is two. Harlem and Justice, man. You could put me on the Lakers and I’d score more than Kobe with how I’m feeling right now.

I can tell, man. I hear it. I see it. The enthusiasm. The energy. I haven’t seen you this amped since The Documentary sessions.
My sons advance my thinking. Fatherhood has forced me to think ahead and be smarter about things. I’m even more motivated to take shit over.

We’ve followed your career from the gate. And in doing so we’ve been exposed to different people in your life. I’m going to ask you about a few of those people and see where you are, today, with those people. Let’s start with George Ausborne Taylor, Jr.
Man… (pause)… Right now, man… (longer pause)… I ain’t seen that dude in a minute. That’s my pops. I’ve always had real mixed feeling about that dude. I haven’t really fucked with him in a minute because of different shit that’s going on in the family that I don’t really wanna talk about right now, but I recorded a song about it for the R.E.D. Album. You listen to that joint and it’s gonna bring tears to everybody eyes.

Billboard.
That’s my Beanie Sigel if I’m Jay-Z, not the beef but the unstoppable Roc empire days. If I’m Jadakiss that’s my Styles P. That’s my nigga for life, best friend ever. But you think I’m hardheaded (laughs)! That nigga wouldn’t listen to nobody. I’d be like, “Let’s not go out tonight. Let’s stay in and record.” And he’d be like “Nah, I’m riding. Serving this nigga. That nigga.” But to be honest, and that is my nigga for life when I say this, I think the way Billboard went out, being murdered in the streets of L.A., is how that nigga wanted to go out. He’d already accepted that as his will and testament. Wasn’t no convincing the nigga otherwise. But I love that nigga, man.

Carol Edith Zeigler.
Aw, man. You spinning me around the room right now. That’s my grandmother. That woman right there was a special woman. That’s my Lena Horne. My Oprah Winfrey. My Angela Bassett. She is another person that I lost way too soon. My grandmother is the person who called me Game. I wish she’d lived to see where I made it to, not necessarily all the negative shit I had to do to reach this point, but the pinnacle I’m at now.

Lastly, I have to ask you about that little dude that was crawling around The Documentary photo shoot in chucks and a diaper. Harlem Caron.
(laughs)… Harlem is good. That dude is Tiger Woods, man. He don’t know nothing about no hood. He doesn’t even know that I’m a rapper. He just has fun at school. Plays soccer, baseball, little league stuff. Plays with his toys. Harlem is all innocent and I’m grateful that I’m able to provide that for him. But my two year old, Justice, that dude knows my songs and shit (laughs). He knows all my business. He’s like,”‘You goin’ to tha dudio?” (laughs)

You’ve obviously enjoyed tremendous success without 50. And, in turn, he has done well without you. But deep down, real talk, is there any part of that creative business relationship you miss? Any regrets?
I made some of the biggest songs of my career with that dude. And it’s not about he wrote this or I wrote that, but it was just the collaborative effort. No different from Swizz working with Cass or Jay working with Beans or Puff working with Bigg. I miss us being the Voltron of Hip Hop. Em, D12, Dre, Nate, me. All of that power and creative energy and good music.

I bet Iovine misses it too.
To this day, every time I see Jimmy he says, ‘Why’d you guys have to go and break up the Black Beatles?” And, honestly man, that relationship didn’t have to spoil. But I’m principled. Things weren’t headed in a direction I was comfortable with and you know me. I’m not one to hold my tongue. I’ma tell a muthafucker when shit ain’t right.

Back in the studio with the good Doctor. He and Pharrell are executive producers on this album. How’d that reunion happen?
I wouldn’t say it’s a reunion. It’s more… (pauses)… Dre was kicking it with Snoop one day and called me to ask if I wanted to come in and work. We should all be happy Dr. Dre ain’t God, because the world never would have been created in seven days. It would have taken three years like my album… but yeah, they called me and asked if I wanted to work. One thing led to another and we’ve been working on my album ever since.

There is so much energy in your sessions right now. Skateboard P and Dre, Snoop. And to think that you were threatening us all with your retirement after L.A.X. went platinum. What changed?
I ain’t going nowhere. What happened is Hip Hop changed. And I told people that it would on my last album. You can hear how everybody is just having a good time. Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, Wayne. These cats are just having a good time and that is where Hip Hop needs to be.

I would be remiss if I didn’t talk to you about Compton. Everything from public education to public transportation to teen pregnancy rates, murder rates, violent crimes, gang-related crimes, are through the roof. What’s it going to take for shit to change in the CPT?
50 years of dedication to changing things. See, Compton is rotten to the core. Like you said, all the way down to the kindergarten level. By junior high you already know that you don’t really have a good shot at making it out. I don’t know what else I can do that I haven’t already done. We did a lot for the hood with Black Wall Street but shit hasn’t really improved except for a few people we helped directly.

Do you think President Obama is going to cop the R.E.D. Album?
I don’t know about cop it, but he’ll definitely have a couple songs in his iTunes workout (laughs). Because if he cops the entire album and listens to it his war strategy is gonna change. He’s gonna take all the soldiers out of Iraq and send the prisoners over there instead.

What’s the biggest difference between Chuck Taylor at 20 and Chuck Taylor now, at 30?
I was a dumb, dangerous muthafucker ten years ago. Walking around with loaded weapons and no brain. I understand life more now. I know how things are going to end. Not when, but I know how. When is up to God’s will. Only he knows that.

Safe to say you’re a lot richer now too, huh?
Yeah, that too (laughs). //

Source: OzoneMag

“I lost some money, man,” Game admitted. “I was going with the Colts, man — for no reason. The Saints or the Colts, that ain’t my team, man. I’d figured Peyton Manning wouldn’t disappoint in the Bowl, but he got his Jim Kelly on. He could have easily tied that game up. But [Manning] was outta the game. I know that face — it’s like that sick face n—as make when they knowing it’s a wrap. He couldn’t shake the face. He came out and played exactly how his expression was. He’s used to having it his way. [The Saints] came out there and did they thing, man.”

Game says he lost about $1,000 to Dr. Dre, his lab partner for his new LP The R.E.D. Album. The controversial MC watched the game at the Doc’s crib and even had a chance to reflect on his career while the Who played the halftime show.

“I was sitting outside of Dre’s house yesterday, me and Stat Quo. We was talking about my career and where he is with his and the people that were around that ain’t around,” Game recalled. “He was telling me, ‘N—a, you did the sh–, you went up against everybody,’ and we really right back here in Dre’s front yard talking at halftime of the game. [Stat] was going for the Colts too. He lost some money to Dre too — gotta throw him under the bus too. But yeah man, the way the life is and the way sh– happens, it’s crazy. But it’s a beautiful thing that a n—a is still existing in hip-hop and has the force to sell records.”

Game’s new album will also feature production by Pharrell Williams and Cool — Dre and appearances by Rick Ross, Ashanti and Justin Timberlake. This report is from MTV News.

“On the way 2 the lab!!! flyin dwn santa monica I think we took like 3 red lights lol!!! ( U guys dnt do tht tho) lol!!!,” she wrote Wednesday (January 27). “@only1NOTTZ heyyyyyy!!!!! Wz crackin!! We gotta link up I’m in LA now jus leavin the lab!!!! Awwwwwww sh*t its a problem!!!!! Me DR. DRE & GAME in the lab ohhhhhhh booooooy this is a SMMMMIZAAASHHH!!!!!http://tweetphoto.com/9709437 & @ihategame jus debo’d my cup of tea!!!!! Smh!!! Lol!!! & of course @LTHUTTON is in the mothaf*#kin buildin!!! Hollaaa!!!” (Ashanti’s Twitter)

“Me and Game in the studio makin’ a Avatar/Precious movie in the studio on the night of the Golden Globe awards b*tch!!! R.E.D./ THE CHEMO!!!,” Busta wrote early Monday (January 18) morning. “@noreaga I am n*gga….Call me Now family…!!!!” (Busta Rhymes’ Twitter)

Game also confirmed his attendance through Twitter.

“RT @BusaBusss: Me and Game in the studio makin’ a Avatar/Precious movie in the studio on the night of the Golden G (cont) http://tl.gd/45ctc,” Game re-tweeted. “http://tweetphoto.com/8992893 Gettin twisted off this patron n blowin that “UN UNH, I know that aint that SHI (cont) http://tl.gd/45dcs http://tweetphoto.com/8995326 5 yrs ago today Jan. 18th 2005 my 1st album “THE DOCUMENTARY” dropped. Still In studio wit the big homie @busabusss makin hits n all of a sudden my ghostwriter walked in ha ha ha….” (Game’s Twitter)