At the time, Game was a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit crew with rappers Lloyd Banks and Young Buck, but as the world knows, things have since changed. Following a long and nasty feud with 50 Cent, Game has finally severed business ties with the G-Unit label and now has his own Black Wall Street record label directly under parent company Interscope, which will release his new album “The Doctor’s Advocate” this summer.
“For the last 8 to 9 months I’ve been fighting for my independence on Interscope and I finally got it,” Game says. “So there’s no more 50 and we’re not in each other’s way. I don’t wish any harm on him or have anything bad to say about him at this point because I pretty much exhausted the possibility of doing that whole back and forth thing with him.”
Game says his issues with 50 began with the release of “The Documentary,” when his name started to bubble throughout the industry and multiple opportunities came knocking.
“At the end of the day, I just gotta be respected as a business man,” Game says. “Where me and 50 bumped heads was that he didn’t want anybody else to co-exist when he was on top. He wanted to be on top alone. He didn’t wanna give me the same opportunities that Eminem and Dre had given him.”
“All my life, I’ve been a leader and not a follower,” he continues. “I’ve had people behind me following me, doing whatever I do. I wasn’t Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, I wasn’t a G-Unit soldier, so I left the group and started my own label. I already had my own label, but it’s blown now, and we full-fledged, and we working and we’re gearing up for this album.”
Free of his longtime nemesis, The Game is now completely relaxed and happy in his new crib nestled in the Kenneth Village neighborhood of Glendale, Calif., about 30 minutes up the 5 freeway from his place of birth.
“For the last 8 to 9 months I’ve been fighting for my independence on Interscope and I finally got it,” Game says. “So there’s no more 50 and we’re not in each other’s way. I don’t wish any harm on him or have anything bad to say about him at this point because I pretty much exhausted the possibility of doing that whole back and forth thing with him.”
Game says his issues with 50 began with the release of “The Documentary,” when his name started to bubble throughout the industry and multiple opportunities came knocking.
“At the end of the day, I just gotta be respected as a business man,” Game says. “Where me and 50 bumped heads was that he didn’t want anybody else to co-exist when he was on top. He wanted to be on top alone. He didn’t wanna give me the same opportunities that Eminem and Dre had given him.”
“All my life, I’ve been a leader and not a follower,” he continues. “I’ve had people behind me following me, doing whatever I do. I wasn’t Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, I wasn’t a G-Unit soldier, so I left the group and started my own label. I already had my own label, but it’s blown now, and we full-fledged, and we working and we’re gearing up for this album.”
Free of his longtime nemesis, The Game is now completely relaxed and happy in his new crib nestled in the Kenneth Village neighborhood of Glendale, Calif., about 30 minutes up the 5 freeway from his place of birth.