The Game has never been afraid to speak his mind or puff his chest out, and his latest comments continue to prove this.
On a recent episode of Big Boy’s Neighborhood while weighing in on the state of rap, the Compton MC called today’s rap music “trash” while dubbing himself “one of the best rappers on Earth.”
“Everyone knows this. And anyone that disagrees with that is, you know, they lying to themselves,” he said (around the 31-minute mark in the video below). “Then bring up my discography and everything that I’ve done for hip-hop, L.A., the West Coast. Like, I carried a lot and I asked for nothing.”
The Game then broke down his West Coast rap Mount Rushmore, naming Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.
Elsewhere, he discussed being a firsthand witness to an early-career Kendrick Lamar, claiming that he wanted to sign the 22-time Grammy winner before he landed with Top Dawg Entertainment.
“I was always asking [TDE founder] Top, ‘Yo, let me get Dot,'” he recalled. “He was like, ‘No.’ He knew what he was, I knew what he was.”
“Let me get him as an artist because I already knew. I knew what he was gonna be and nobody didn’t understand it yet except everybody that was around Top and TDE, they knew. And I knew.”
The Game also reflected on the 2011 concert where the West Coast rap torch was passed to Kendrick, explaining that he was there “for the movement.”
His claims about wanting to sign Kendrick have since been disputed by TDE’s head of security, 2Teez, who called The Game out directly in the comments section of an Instagram post covering the story.
“Blood faking he never wanted to sign Kendrick!!!!!” he wrote.
Meanwhile, TDE engineer MixedByAli responded to Akademiks’ repost of the clip with laughing emojis, a not-so-subtle sign that he perhaps doesn’t take The Game’s story seriously either.
