Tracklist:
01 Introduction
02 How I Came Up
03 Let Me Be Your Sight f. 211 & The Jacka
04 Interlude 1
05 Broken Home f. Jamillion
06 Never Gave You Money
07 Where I’m At
08 Be Quiet
09 By My Side
10 Interlude 2
11 Bar Up
12 Follow Me
13 Top Floor
14 Say Somethin’
15 Better Man
16 Ungrateful f. Lil Kev
17 Interlude 3
18 Good Child
19 Interlude 4
20 Know What They Want
21 Get Off Me
22 Interlude 5
23 World’s Biggest Little City
24 Prince of the Coast Freestyle
25 Drinks R On Me f. E-40
26 Outroduction
Tracklist:
1. Green Lantern Intro
2. Self Titled (off R.E.K.S. album) (produced by Statik Selektah)
3. I Don’t Play (LFHQ Dj Premier Exclusive)
4. Understand (produced by Lee Bannon)
5. Rap-a-nomics ft. Slaine & Torae (produced by Statik Selektah)
6. Count If Off ft. CurT@ins (produced by Statik Selektah)
7. 2012 (produced by Statik Selektah)
8. God Damn! ft. Freddie Gibbs (produced by Statik Selektah)
9. I Too, America (produced by Statik Selektah)
10. 7am ft. Termanology, Steven King, J-Status, & JFK (produced by Statik Selektah)
11. That’s What’s Up ft. Bossman (produced by Statik Selektah)
12. Hennessy (produced by Statik Selektah)
13. Henny @ Halftime ft. Ron artest (produced by Statik Selektah)
14. Dangerous (Showoff) ft. JFK, Statik Selektah, & Kali (produced by Statik Selektah)
15. 21st Century Rap (prod. by Anthem)
16. Banner City ft. Termanology & Easy Money (off Dj Deadeye album, prod. by MGI)
17. Diesel ft. Chi Knox & Lucky Dice (produced by Rain)
18. City Night Stories ft. Nature, Soul Theory, and G Huff (produced by Soul Theory)
19. Down Like That (Lawtown) (produced by Statik Selektah)
20. Evil That Men Do ft. JV (produced by DEMOBeats)
21. Problem ft. LMS and Saheed (prod. by OZNY)
22. In Between The Lines Freestyle (prod. by Infinite Archetype)
23. Lucky Man (produced by Statik Selektah)
24. International ft. El Da Sensei and Insight (produced by Insight)
25. Something From Nothing ft. Mr M.O.E. & B.R. (ATL) (produced by S-Type)
26. Jena Side (produced by 1914)
27. Invasion Outro
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b-boys would have us believe.
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 [recent] 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). //
Clinton Portis likes to dress up as various characters and perform interviews as them.
There’s the Mad Scientist, who wears glasses like Geordi from Star Trek and claims that his wild hair came from sticking his finger in an electric socket.
There’s Southeast Jerome from Southeast D.C., who was on his way to the bright lights of New York to go dancing.
There’s Dr. I Don’t Know, who wears pink-rimmed glasses that used to be white, but were stained with blood during surgery, and doesn’t know why the Redskins lost 36-0 to the Giants.
There’s Dolemite Jenkins, who like to dance with men and even asked a reporter if he wanted to cut the rug. Portis later revealed that Jenkins, who rocked a red curly-haired wig and dorky glasses, was inspired by the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
There’s also Choo-Choo, Bud Foxx, Prime Minister Yah Mon, Dolla Bill...
9 Chad Ochocinco
As if changing one’s surname from Johnson to Ochocinco isn’t weird enough. Johnson is famous for his ridiculous and often hysterical touchdown celebrations.
He’s performed CPR on the ball, made a bogus proposal to a cheerleader, and held up a sign that read, “Dear NFL, Please Don’t Fine Me Again.”
He’s raced a thoroughbred for charity (he won, for the record) and has sported some of the oddest hairstyles sports have ever seen.
Ochocinco’s newest obsession is his Twitter account, which he posts on as often as 50 times a day.
Here is my personal favorite Ochocinco-ism from Twitter: "You think Brett will put me in one of those Wrangler Jeans commercials, straight up, year supply of Wranglers for Esteban, awesome."
If you're wondering, Esteban is one of his many alter egos.
8 Bill "Spaceman" Lee
Pitcher Bill Lee is perhaps the most interesting man to ever step onto a baseball diamond. He represented the counterculture in America during a time, the 1970s, when a distinct counterculture existed.
Lee was a man of the Earth. He spoke to animals, supported environmental causes, practiced yoga, and consumed A LOT of pot.
In fact, he was once fined $250 by Major League Baseball for sprinkling marijuana on his pancakes.
Lee was also well-known for his outspoken personality. A constant source of quotes for the media, Lee let loose on issues ranging from population control to school busing in Boston.
Lee was also extremely intelligent. He studied Eastern philosophy, the works of Einstein, and later wrote four books. Fittingly, Lee was a lefty. You know what they say about lefties.
7 Manny Ramirez
Manny Ramirez once high-fived a Red Sox fan in Baltimore after making a catch in left field and still found time to fire the ball back to the infield for a double play.
He once strangely massaged the head of then teammate Julian Tavarez, another odd duck, in the dugout during a game.
He spent “free time” between innings at Fenway hanging out in the Green Monster, occasionally on his cell phone.
He once made a diving catch on a relay throw from teammate Johnny Damon that wasn’t intended for him. He took his spot in left field with a water bottle in his back pocket on one occasion.
That’s just Manny Being Manny.
6 Jimmy Piersall
Piersall, an outfielder in the 1950s and 1960s, collected a laundry list of strange incidents during his playing days.
Perhaps the most well-known was the fistfight he had with Billy Martin prior to a game in 1952. I know what you’re thinking; a lot of guys probably threw hands with Billy Martin in their playing days, but Piersall’s strange behavior only begins there.
That same year he spanked the four-year old son of teammate Vern Stephens in the Red Sox clubhouse during a game.
He once stepped to the plate playing air guitar with his bat while wearing a Beatles wig and frequently talked to Babe Ruth’s bust in Monument Park when visiting Yankees Stadium.
Piersall later became the subject of the movie "Fear Strikes Out" about his battle with bipolar disorder.
Later in his life, he said, "Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Who ever heard of Jimmy Piersall until that happened?"
5 Turk Wendell
Wendell, a pitcher for a number of teams from 1993 to 2004, was nearly as entertaining as he was downright weird. Wendall chewed black licorice while he pitched and brushed his teeth between every inning.
Speaking of teeth, he wore necklace strung with the teeth of animals he had killed during his many hunting outings.
Wendell was also extremely superstitious. He leaped over the baseline whenever he took or left the field and required that umpires roll him the ball at the beginning of each inning instead of throwing it.
Wendell was obsessed with the movie Major League and wore the number 99 as a tribute to Charlie Sheen’s character, Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn.
Wendell became one of the game’s most liked players due to his quirky behaviors and eccentric personality.
4 Joe Namath
“Broadway Joe” was as unusual as he was great. The always flamboyant Namath often wore full length fur coats on the sideline.
His appearance in an ad for Beautymist pantyhose in 1974 still reigns as the strangest athlete endorsement of all time because he was shown wearing said pantyhose.
He once retired briefly to protest the NFL’s insistence that he sell his partial share in a New York City bar with mafia ties.
Despite having retired nearly 25 years ago, Namath still finds ways to put himself into the headlines.
In 2004, during an interview with ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber, a drunken Namath informed Kolber that he wanted to kiss her. Soon after, Namath sought treatment for alcohol addiction
3 Mark "The Bird" Fidrych
Fidrych, whose nickname was derived from his resemblance to Big Bird, was the 1976 AL Rookie of the Year but only played until 1980.
However, he made a huge impact in his five seasons in the big leagues. Fidrych frequently spoke to the ball while on the mound and aimed it like a dart before starting his windup.
Fidrych would ask umpires to take back balls he believed “had hits in them” and insisted that they come back as pop-ups.
Fidrych became a sensation in Detroit, with attendance skyrocketing whenever he was scheduled to start.
Perhaps Fidrych’s most endearing quality was his insistence that if he wasn’t pitching in the major leagues, he would be pumping gas back in his hometown of Northborough, Mass.
2 Dennis Rodman
Oh, where to start. “The Worm” has made a career out of being different. From dyeing his hair every color over the rainbow to his rendezvous with Madonna, Rodman has always found a way to make himself the center of attention.
He married hottie Carmen Electra, and after showing up in a wedding dress to promote his autobiography, himself.
He once skipped a practice during the NBA Finals to participate in a professional wrestling bout with friend Hulk Hogan.
Rodman’s had his own reality television show, posed nude for PETA, and been in a couple of bad movies. Then there are all the piercings, the tattoos and the arrests.
Somehow along the way, he managed to win five world championships and be a seven time NBA All-Defensive First Team selection. What hasn’t Rodman done?
1 Mike Tyson
The chronicles of Mike Tyson are well known. From the early days of being Iron Mike, one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time, to the tattoo-faced oddball we know today.
Along the way, Tyson manufactured some of the strangest and disturbing quotes in sports history. In 2002, Tyson told Lennox Lewis, “I want your heart. I want to eat your children.”
He also once advised a female reporter to stop talking unless she wanted to fornicate, because he only does interviews with women if he fornicates with them first.
While his whole life would qualify as strange, Tyson owns the holy grail of peculiar events in sports history. In 1997, Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the third round of their heavyweight showdown.
Tyson returned to the spotlight in 2009 with his cameo in the hilarious Vegas caper The Hangover. It’s widely believed to be his best performance since knocking out Michael Spinks in only 91 seconds in 1988.
Source: Houston Chronicle
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