Club Shay Shay - The Game 2

Summary

Club Shay Shay – The Game 2

Podcast: Club Shay Shay (iHeartPodcasts & Shay Shay Media)
Host: Shannon Sharpe
Guest: The Game
Release Date: December 10, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this engaging, wide-ranging conversation, legendary rapper The Game joins NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe for a candid, insightful, and unfiltered discussion about hip-hop, legacy, beefs in the rap industry, fatherhood, personal growth, business pitfalls, and relationships. With humor and frankness, The Game reflects on his journey, navigating fame, lessons learned, and his vision for the future.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Passing the West Coast Torch to Kendrick Lamar

• [03:28] Shannon Sharpe asks about The Game, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre passing the torch to Kendrick.
  • The Game explains he always recognized Kendrick's talent and wanted to be present for a historic night.
  • Quote: "I knew what Kendrick was the first time I ever heard him spit." – The Game (03:40)

2. West Coast Rap Hierarchy and Ego

• [05:15] Declares himself the best rapper on the West Coast, referencing legends like Ice Cube and Snoop, but argues he’s unmatched today.
  • Quote: "Can't nobody outrap me, man...no one can do what I can do." – The Game (05:23)
  • Compares his evolution to Kobe learning from Michael Jordan.

3. Versus Battles, Industry Beefs & Relationships

• [07:09] The Game says he prefers watching Versus but would only consider participating against 50 Cent.
• [07:33] Discusses reconciling with Suge Knight: "We bumped heads over the years, but again, I don't duck no smoke."
• [07:51] Drake is "my brother" – The Game details their tight bond and mutual respect.
  • Quote: "He always makes me feel like the bigger brother, right? There’s always a respect." – The Game (09:35)

4. Checking In—Respect and Safety in L.A.

• [10:46] On whether rappers must “check in” when visiting LA: "It's just a courtesy call...not a Suge Knight check-in thing." – The Game (11:09)

5. Working & Beefing with Eminem

• [12:02] The Game describes Eminem's studio quirks and artistic genius, and recalls being inspired by Em’s lyricism.
  • Quote: "He just eat Taco Bell, Taco Bell and drinks Mountain Dew." – The Game (12:23)
• [14:18] Game admits beef with Em started from anger at Dr. Dre; reflects on youthful, bullheaded decisions and not apologizing for competing with rap royalty.
  • On apologies: "You only made me apologize once, man, to Kemp." – The Game (14:53)

6. Competitiveness and Rap Beef

• [16:18] Game's approach to beefs: sometimes self-created, always competitive.
  • "Sometimes I sub myself in." – The Game (16:35)

7. Dream Collaborations & Artists Admired

• [16:58] Regrets never collaborating with Amy Winehouse; admires Elton John, seeks unexpected collaborations.

8. NBA YoungBoy, New Generations, and Mental Health

• [17:22] NBA YoungBoy called "this generation’s Tupac" by youth, respected by Game for his impact on fans.
• [18:48] On YB's mental health tweet ("I want to drop this album, then die"): "I know where that's coming from... that's about a woman for sure."
  • "There's so much more to live for." – The Game (19:18)
• [20:27] Asserts Kendrick & J. Cole are today's Nas and Jay-Z.

9. Hip Hop Mount Rushmore & Comparing Generations

• [22:22] No strict ranking, but Lil Wayne is among all-time elite (shared with Jay Z, Pac, Biggie, Em, Andre 3000).
• Mount Rushmore: "Wayne, Jay, Pac, Big, Em, Andre 3000, Biggie… all in the top 10." – The Game (22:32)
• [23:13] On verse fees: never paid for a verse; doesn’t charge top-tier friends.

10. Industry Lessons & Protecting Yourself in Music Business

• [27:44] 20 years in: “That it ain't shit...everyone uses everybody.” – The Game (27:49)
• Echoes T-Pain: people say they're your "brother," but business is business; emphasizes learning from betrayal to grow and become wiser.
  • "Should we be thinking everybody's our brother to begin with, or are we young and then we grow wiser..." – The Game (28:54)
• Advice for new artists: get top lawyers and trustworthy teams.
  • "There's a mass agenda to take advantage of younger, talented artists..." – The Game (30:16)

11. Branding, Snoop’s Transformation, & Pop Culture Impact

• [31:33] Names Snoop Dogg among the three most recognized people alive: "Jesus, Michael Jackson, and Snoop."
  • "[Once] Snoop got with Martha Stewart, it was up." – The Game (31:53)

12. Writing Process, Ghostwriting, and Freestyle Culture

• [33:39] On ghostwriting: "You can't be a true MC if you have ghostwriters."
• Freestyles are often pre-written, few can truly go off the dome—Wayne and Kendrick notable exceptions.

13. Culture Vulture Discourse

• [36:44] "We all vultures of something, man... If I like sushi, am I a culture vulture?"
  • Game argues for less judgment and more appreciation across cultures.

14. Sampling, Clearances, and Streaming

• [38:01] Willing to allow samples for the right price—but respects artists who keep their catalogs sacred.
• [43:17] Streaming seen as a way for industry to shortchange artists, but accepts it as evolution.
  • Advice from Ice Cube: "Embrace where hip-hop is right now." – The Game (44:05)

15. Best Albums Ever

• [44:28] Best hip-hop album: "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" (44:33)
• [45:27] Best rap album: "The Chronic" (45:27)
  • Gives Snoop significant credit for "The Chronic."

16. Personal Growth, Regret, and Relationships

• [46:06]–[51:31] Candid about womanizing past; acknowledges regret for relationships that lacked intent or long-term meaning.
  • "You're literally holding somebody's wife hostage..." – The Game (51:11)
• Talks about being a caretaker in relationships, financial standards, and lessons from being raised by strong women.

17. Dating, Boundaries, and Friendship Codes

• [55:53] On dating friends' exes: "If you guys are not engaged, not married, and you do not have children...that woman is fair game." – The Game (57:28)
  • Spars with Shannon over “unwritten rules” of dating.

18. Fatherhood & Co-parenting

• [66:13]–[69:34] Shares approach to parenting: open communication, equal values to each child, learning to let mothers handle day-to-day, and the struggles of disciplining girls versus boys.
  • Parent the girls differently? "I could never discipline her the way we got disciplined." – The Game (67:42)
• Co-parenting formula: "Let her pick the school, pick the clothes, and you just pay. That's it. Shut up." – The Game (70:13)

19. Dealing with Social Media & Mental Health

• [73:47] On trolling & hate: sees social media as a tool, not a measure of self-worth.
  • "The foundation of it all is they follow you, right? Not the other way around." – The Game (73:47)
  • Protecting mental health means building emotional walls from a young age and focusing on moments with family.

20. Tattoos & Symbolism

• [76:03] Began face/body tattoos after grandmother’s advice: “the skin is just a costume that [you're] borrowing from God.”

21. Acting & Missed Opportunities

• [77:48] Would return to acting now with more patience; regrets turning down "A-Team" role for B.A. Baracus, which went to Rampage. Loved working with Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, and others.

22. If He Could Do It Over: Regrets & Growth

• [80:17] No deep regrets except bad financial management—estimates $10M spent on jewelry in youth, much of it wasted or gifted away.
  • "I care if I live or die [now]." – The Game (80:58)
  • "All the joy in life comes from that sentiment right there." – The Game, on living for his kids (81:11)

23. Coming Projects & Closing

• [81:20] Announces an upcoming mixtape (with DJ Drama) and a forthcoming album for next year.
  • "Mixtape is fun...Album, I have to give it the love it deserves." – The Game (81:43)

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps & Attribution)

• "I knew what Kendrick was the first time I ever heard him spit." – The Game (03:40)
• "Can't nobody outrap me, man...no one has my skill set." – The Game (05:23)
• "He always makes me feel like the bigger brother." – The Game on Drake (09:35)
• "Everybody uses everybody, right?" – The Game on the music business (27:49)
• "You can't be a true MC if you have Ghost Writers." – The Game (33:52)
• "Jesus, Michael Jackson and Snoop. Guaranteed." – The Game, on the three most recognized people alive (31:33)
• "If you're going to take a woman serious, and you're the type of man that I am...that is bare minimum." – The Game on supporting a partner financially (52:07)
• "Let her pick the school, pick the clothes, and you just pay. That's it. Shut up." – The Game on co-parenting (70:13)
• "I care if I live or die [now]." – The Game, on his growth since 2005 (80:58)

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Memorable Moments

• Beating Mike Tyson in arm wrestling (as an older Tyson, but still): "It was a little tough, but I definitely beat Mike Tyson in arm wrestling." – The Game (47:31)
• The infamous “Change of Heart” dating show story: The Game recounts being 18, doing the show for $1,000, and how it was scripted — but adds, it’s simply part of his journey. (47:46)
• Candid reflection on womanizing and growing up: Admits regret for being a womanizer, attributes change to maturity and understanding the effect on others.
• Openly discussing mistakes made in business and relationships: Emphasizes the importance of legal representation and not confusing business with brotherhood.

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Final Reflections

This episode provides an unvarnished look at The Game’s artistry, competitiveness, personal struggles, and his journey toward self-awareness and growth. Through stories, advice, and playful banter with Sharpe, The Game demystifies the glamor of the industry while affirming the importance of authenticity, family, learning from mistakes, and staying grounded in a changing world.

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Key Segments – Quick Reference

• Passing the torch to Kendrick: 03:28–04:40
• On being the best rapper: 05:15–06:43
• Versus battle/Beefs: 07:03–07:51
• Drake/Checking in: 07:51–11:59
• Eminem collaboration/beef: 11:59–14:59
• Hip-Hop hierarchy: 22:22–22:95
• Industry lessons: 27:44–31:33
• Snoop, branding, and culture: 31:15–31:59
• Freestyle and ghostwriting: 33:37–35:15
• Womanizing/Personal growth: 50:00–51:31
• Co-parenting/Fatherhood: 66:13–70:13
• Social media & mental health: 73:29–75:59
• Tattoos and acting: 75:59–78:47
• Regrets & reflections: 80:05–81:11
• New music projects: 81:20–81:52

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. What made you. You was on stage and you snoop dogg and Dr. Dre and y' all passed the torch to Kendrick. Why did you feel you needed to do that?

[The Game]

Cause I knew what Kendrick was the first time I ever heard him spit. And so when they called my name, I got up out the bed, I shot downtown, and I made sure that I was present for what I knew would be a historic night.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

There was a lot of. There was a lot of criticism. You called it some criticism. Like, I wanted to sign Kendrick.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

And then there. I don't know if it was in danger, say somebody that didn't happen. So you want to clarify that one?

[The Game]

The thing about that is if you tell me you want a Subway sandwich, Right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

How can I tell you that you don't want a Subway sandwich?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay, I see what you said you wanted. The signing.

[The Game]

If I say I want to do something, it's what I want.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

That you don't need validation for wanting to do something. Correct. If you want to go to Aspen this winter, one of your homies could be like, nah, he don't want to go to Aspen. He don't. I do.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I'd say that's what I wanted to do.

[The Game]

That's what I'm saying. So it's just that, man. And you can't, you know, we can't entertain everybody that, you know, has an opinion on things that we say. But I know 100% sure you can't tell anyone what they want to do if they're of conscious, you know, mind.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

When Kendrick mentioned you in the song Black Boy Fly. Yeah, but to have your name mentioned in a song, what does that mean? Is that the ultimate side of respect? Is that the ultimate validation?

[The Game]

Yeah, man. I think that for him to do that showed his early onset vulnerability, his adoration, respect, and appreciation for something that I got out the gate a Little earlier than him on. And I'm appreciative to the fact that he did that to this day.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Who's the best rapper on the west coast today?

[The Game]

Game.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Damn, that was quick.

[The Game]

Yeah, it ain't. It's. Yeah, that's it.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Ain't nobody getting at you.

[The Game]

Can't nobody outrap me, man. And anybody that knows, anybody that knows will know. Cause people can't even if you are like, no one can do what I can do. Like, no one has my skill set. Cause not only am I do I have the ability to wrap circles around people. I'm also with all the bullshit, too, if it came down to that. So it's like, I'm. Yeah, I'm the best rapper in this town.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Damn game. I mean, the og, man, there's some og, some heavyweights. I mean, Cube, Snoop.

[The Game]

I love Cube, but Cube can't outrap me. I love Cube. And by the way, the reason that Cube can't outwrap me is because I used Cube's. You know, I used Cube's legacy to help me sharpen. I used Snoop's legacy to help me sharpen myself. I used Dr. Dre, NWA. So it's like those guys came before me. You know what I'm saying? So it's like Kobe, right? You know, Kobe watched Mike growing up, for sure. Absolutely.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But you see the way he walked? You see the way he chewed that gun. He got the wristband on his elbow.

[The Game]

Now, Mike in Kobe's prime. Mike couldn't hold Kobe.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No.

[The Game]

But that's because he came before him and he done with it. I'm not saying if I was in 1992 with Cube, Cube might be able to, you know, go crazy.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

You know, but right now, like, nah, it's not a rapper on the west second. That's better than me.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You still the best rapper from Compton.

[The Game]

I'm definitely the best rapper from Compton.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Definitely.

[The Game]

Definitely.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is it? I think we gonna talk about it. Maybe talk about. I'm gonna talk about it now. Now, we just saw who had that Versus. We had no Limit and Birdman.

[The Game]

Oh, yeah. Cash Money.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Cash money.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So who would you want to do a Versus against?

[The Game]

I'm not. I'm more of a fan. Like, I'm a fan of the Versus series more of a fan than I am a participant. Okay. And I think that, you know, with my career, there's only a few names that could really. That really even make sense, you know?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

And I think the only person that I could probably be on a versus with is probably 50 or something like that, right? Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You still got beef with Suge?

[The Game]

Nah, I talked to Suge like a few months ago. He was in good spirits and, you know, he gave me my props. We had our. We bumped heads over the years, but again, I don't duck no smoke. So he ended up finding out that, you know, the hard way.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What's your relationship with Drake?

[The Game]

Drake? Oh, Drake. That's my brother, man. That's my brother. I don't cut no corners about my friendship with Drake. He always been solid with me. He ain't never done me no wrong. He always look out, you know, for the kids when they want to go to shows and whatnot. And he ain't never. He ain't never done me no wrong.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So when Drake comes to come, when Drake come to your home, to your hood, right, what is the undertaking that you have to take to make sure he can get in and out he. And have no issues?

[The Game]

Well, it's all love. But number one, you have to be accepted and loved in your hood. You know what I'm saying? Which I am. I've always kept it a buck with people from my neighborhood coming up. I've been in Compton all my life, so it's not like I'm some implant. I've been there all my life. I know everybody, everybody know me. People see me while I was in my, you know, in my dark days and know what I was capable of when I was on that type of time. And at this point, all around la, it's just a respect thing. Like I, you know, I get nothing but like, what's up, big homie? What's up, gang? Like, that's all around LA from any hood. So I think I'm far removed from getting banged on or tripped on. Cause at this point, like, you know, I'm a household name. So it is what it is. But yeah, Drake, it was easy in, easy out.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I mean, when you like. I mean, he's gotta be one of the biggest art, well, rappers. I mean, yeah, I think he's probably the biggest right now. One of the biggest artists. I mean, you can make a case. I mean, maybe Beyonce, Taylor Swift, I mean, maybe they're right there. But to hang out with somebody, somebody like him, I mean, you don't look at him like the outside world looks at him. You look at him like a homie.

[The Game]

You know what Drake does.

Whenever he's in my presence, man, he always.

He always makes me feel like the bigger brother, right? There's always a respect And I don't think. I think with him, it's never been a. I've sold more records than you, or I got more money than you. Cause he didn't done both. Whenever you breaking Beatles records, Michael Jackson doing all that as a, you know, a rap artist or, you know, whatever. Drake don't even have a music genre to fit in. He just Drake, you know, it's one of those things like I'm not black and Moj, I guess. But yeah, man.

He'S always humble, man, in my presence, man, and I really, really appreciate that. It makes it easier to. To navigate the friendship that way, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

When you heard Drake, like, man, Drake suing his label, you like, huh?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Nah, nah, nah, you misheard that.

[The Game]

That's me. I don't sue, but that's just me. And again, it's one of those things where I can't judge a man for doing what he thinks is just for his self, his career, his legacy and his family. It has nothing to do with me. I did say that I don't think he should do that. But again, I'm just. That's just me being a bro. He don't have to listen to me.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Do you believe rappers need to check in when they come to la? Cause you see this, I mean, I've seen it before that somebody go to Chicago or they go to the old block, or they go to this place and they need to check in.

[The Game]

I think people get that twisted, right? This ain't the old days where you come to LA and we gonna bully you or say, you gotta do this or else. I think it's just.

Put you in a better position. If you know somebody that's from the city, that is in the genre of music that you're into, you give a call like, yo, I'm coming. What up, Brody? Just a courtesy call. And then me genuinely, if you my homie, I'm gonna make sure that you're straight. Cause you got guys that know this area. You know, when America sends troops overseas, they got a liaison, somebody that's over there who knows the area, can speak the language. Speak the language, who down with our cause. So that's what it is. I don't think it's a bully. Suge Knight check in thing. I think it's just like you should. And you know, in the past we've seen how it goes ugly when you don't. And I don't condone that in any way. I think it's. I don't like that the passing the Pop, smoke, the PNB rock thing. Like, I don't like that at all. Right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You went to Detroit to record with Em?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What was that like? Had you met Em before?

[The Game]

Yeah, I met Em before in la at the Aftermath a few times. Like him, he was around. Like, we were all tight knit in those days. But I went to Detroit and that was probably the.

Craziest studio session that I've ever been in, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What made it so unique?

[The Game]

Because Em eats like Taco Bell. Like, it's like gum. Like, he just eat Taco Bell, Taco Bell and he drinks Mountain Dew. And he also. Sometimes he writes his raps in circles on a paper. And then when he read the raps, he turn it the opposite way so he reading like that. Yeah, it's crazy, man. But one of the most talented rappers alive and there's ever been. And yeah, that experience in Detroit was kind of cool.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Especially when they told you. Because I'm sure they probably told you about Em before you actually saw him. And they said, man, hey, is this white dude, bro? Spit fire, man. Like, get, bro. The last dude y' all told us Spitfire was. Millie was. Ice. Ice, baby. Vanilla Ice.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He liked that. So when you heard him, I don't know if you heard his record or you heard him in the studio when you first heard him, what went through your mind?

[The Game]

When I first heard.

Hi, my name is. I saw that on mtv and I was like, damn, this shit is weird, but I like it. I never heard anything like that. I didn't know you could talk about your mom and shit on tv, like, you know, so I thought it was crazy. So by the time I met him, I was probably like, pretty much already a fan of him in the early stages of his career. So to be on a label with, you know, a guy that outrapped Jay Z on Renegade, you know, was crazy for me.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is that what you try to do when you go on somebody? When somebody asks you for a feature, you get on somebody, you try to bury them.

[The Game]

Anybody that is getting on a song with me, they know that they better go crazy. Because I'm definitely gonna go crazy, especially if it's my song. Cause.

I get to hear what you did and then live with it and then go crazy, right? But yeah, I'm gonna try to be my best on every song that I'm on. What did you.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

How you and Em end up having a beef?

[The Game]

I was 24, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Lord have mercy. You ain't aged a bit. Damn.

[The Game]

Nah, you Know what it was, man? I was pissed off at Dr. Dre, and he can't outrap me, so I was like, let me just try to throw some shots at em. So that's what it was. Another one of Game's bullheaded decisions that pissed a lot of people off.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You do a lot of stuff to piss people off. You went at Hove.

[The Game]

Yeah, I did, man, early on. But hey, man, I survived through it all.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You ain't got no apology letters or nothing?

[The Game]

I don't really. You know, I'm not doing.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

It's okay to apologize.

[The Game]

You only made me apologize once, man, to Kemp.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But I'm just saying it's okay to apologize. You were wrong game. Damn.

[The Game]

I wasn't wrong for going at home, man. That was the. And still to this day, Jay Z is Jay Z, man. That's rap royalty, man. That's like Rock and Roll hall of Fame, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's whole. So it's like if. When you was on the field, man. Right. Like, you running like a, you know, post corner, right?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

And n. Ronnie Lott out there, and he one of the best safeties in the game. Like, we ain't. We gotta catch the ball, and we gotta run him over.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like that. It's just my competitive.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But I ain't gonna say, ronnie, sit your old ass down. You need to go home.

[The Game]

Well, but you gonna tell him that with your skillset? I am, and that's what it is. So me.

To translate my aggression, and you had to use your legs and your arms.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is there anything that you wouldn't say under this track?

[The Game]

Hell, no. And that's what makes me dangerous. The most dangerous.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Man. You got some stuff you gotta keep, man. You can't keep going below the belt, though. Game. Damn. You gotta keep. Hey, right here. Oh. You stay away from kids.

[The Game]

Yeah, kids. Okay. Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But other than that.

[The Game]

Other than that, it's up. All the way up. Oh, Lord have mercy.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Mm, mm, mm. So you. Do you go looking? Do you go looking to start beefs?

[The Game]

Sometimes I do, man. Sometimes I find myself in beefs I don't have. No.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You ain't got no business?

[The Game]

Nah, man. But it's just my competitive nature, man. I get angry sometimes when, you know.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But you ain't even in the game, huh? You ain't in the game. They playing basketball. You a football player.

[The Game]

But I'm always in the game, man. Sometimes I sub myself in.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

That's What I'm saying.

They got too many men on the field, man.

[The Game]

You know, sometimes, man, in like, certain, you know, certain sports, man, somebody at the bench, on the bench, get mad, they just run in the game.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, yeah.

[The Game]

You've seen that happen before.

Collab.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is there anybody that you haven't worked with that you want to work with?

[The Game]

There's one collab that I always wanted that I'd never get and I wouldn't do it, you know, post their death. It's Amy Winehouse. I'm a huge Amy Winehouse fan.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, yeah. I saw her documentary.

[The Game]

So sad, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

She can sing. Lord have mercy. That one.

[The Game]

I'm a big fan of Elton John too.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay.

[The Game]

Yeah, just like abstract.

Collabs that nobody would ever see, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Like, you know, you said NBA Youngboy is this generation's Tupac. Why you feel that?

[The Game]

Well, number one, it's not. I didn't make the decision. These kids did. And it is what it is. But I respect it. Right. Cause you couldn't tell me nothing about Tupac, and you can't tell these YNs nothing about NBA youngboy. And that's just what it is.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I mean, they go crazy. Have you been to the concert?

[The Game]

I haven't been to the concert, but my son went. And from his videos, right? From his videos, the videos that he sent me, I don't see nobody going that crazy. I see people going crazy at concerts, but I seen kids crying, man. I seen kids crying. And I ain't seen nobody crying for nobody outside of maybe like, Michael Jackson. I seen people crying. Morgan Wylan, Michael Jackson is the cry maker. Everybody at Michael Jackson, he gets to sing and heal the world or, you know, human nature, everybody's crying, you know, drifting out. Make a grown man cry, Right? But yeah, other than, like, you know, the Beyonce, Morgan Wylan, like, I'm not Taylor Swift. The Swifties, they cry.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

They go crazy.

[The Game]

But NBA YoungBoy's a rapper, man. And so rappers making people cry. Like, I haven't seen that since, like, you know, like Drake. And I can't say peak Drake. Cause Drake is still. He's the most streamed artist, like, this year. Still.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. NBA Youngboy tweeted, I want to drop this album, then die. My life is literally perfect. I'm just not happy. It's me.

[The Game]

Yeah.

When you read that, I know where that's coming from. And I don't know anything about his personal life. I just know NBA Youngboy selling out concerts, being a remarkable young artist. But you reading that he got a Problem with a woman. For sure.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You think so?

[The Game]

For sure. We only wanna die when we lose our girl. For real. I'm just being honest, man. And so if I had to give him advice, man, I would just say.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

There'S so much more to live for.

[The Game]

There's number one, there's so much more to live for. He got a lot of kids, you know. He's also a very, very talented guy that is changing a lot of people's lives, man. He giving a lot of people motivation, inspiration. No matter what we older OGs feel about it, man, NBA Youngboy is one of those guys that has a lot, a lot to live for. As far as, you know, again, the tweet, man, I would just say pour into yourself, man, and whatever you gotta do. Cause I'm assuming that's either.

Has to be about a woman. Anytime that I wanted to kill myself, it was probably about a woman. And he probably just throwing that out there. And God forbid that he actually does something to himself. I don't think he would do that. And I really hope he doesn't. But just again, it's what I told you at the beginning of the show, man. Maybe he needs to take a break from music and pour into his family, his girl, his kids, and do that. Because I find myself being my happiest self when I'm surrounding myself with people that love me the way that I love them. So I would say tap into that.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You also said Lil Baby and Lil Durk would be the Jay Z and Nas of this generation. Mm. I had G Herbo and Herbo like, man, look, in my heart of hearts, I believe Dirk gonna come home.

[The Game]

So I would.

I would word that different. I would say that Kendrick and J. Cole would be more of the Nas and Jay Z of this generation. But Durk and Lil Baby are great talents, man. And I hate to see Durk in the jam that he in. And yeah, free him too, man. I'm just to free everybody, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I see.

[The Game]

And I apologize to Kim. So maybe Kim will come. You know, Kim trying to be a lawyer. You know she was trying to.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, she tried to be a lawyer.

[The Game]

You never know she was free to go.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You never know when you need that. Get out of free jail.

[The Game]

Freedoguys.com man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. Fans say an NBA youngboy is bigger now than Lil Wayne was in his prime.

[The Game]

No, no, that's not true.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Wayne.

[The Game]

Wayne is one of those guys, man, that I know. NBA Youngboy in his heart of heart, staring in the mirror, knows that he want that he aspires to be Now, I'm not saying that he not on the road to greatness. Cause. And NBA Youngboy, this is his. This is the resurgence in his, you know, in his career. He had a little legal trouble. Had to sit down for a minute.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Go to club man.

[The Game]

Yeah, Club Med. Everybody don't know what Club man is. I don't know why I wanted to go so bad. But then my grandma told me, boy, that's for old people. But yeah, man, I think that NBA Youngboy, if he keeps going, man, with. With his generation, right? Because the people have to put you in these, you know, on these pedestals. So I think that if he going. If he keep going at the rate that he's going now, man, and selling out these arenas and making these kids go crazy, man, that he. Who knows, man? But Wayne, Wayne, Wayne is the goat Man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Where would you put Wayne? Because, like, when people's like, okay, give me your Mount Rushmore, you know, they have Nas, they have Jay Z, you have this rapper. Where would you put. Where you put Wayne?

[The Game]

I think I've got to the point in my life where I don't like putting artists in order. I just know Wayne with Jay and Pac and Big and Em are all Andre 3000. And you know, the other guys, Biggie, are all just. All in the top 10. Like, just like scribble, scribble scrabbled up there, man, in no certain order. I just think that I know for sure that Wayne's up there.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But Youngboy tried to charge you 150k for a verse.

[The Game]

I think that was his team, man. I can't see and I can't see Youngboy doing that.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But that's the going rate.

[The Game]

It's the going rate. But I just think it was like the wires got crossed. Cause I've never paid for a verse in my career.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Time differ.

[The Game]

I mean, this was a time ago, though. So again, I think sometimes it might be 250 now. Yeah, but so the thing is, sometimes your management has your best interest at heart, and they'll throw out the rate. Sometimes the artist doesn't know what goes on. So again, I'm thinking NBA YoungBoy himself would charge game for a verse, right?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What's the most money you charge? You charge for a verse.

[The Game]

Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, but yo, but here's the thing. I don't charge my friends or rappers that I think are top tier for verses. I just don't. Okay, but then a lot of people.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But see, that's how. See, that's how the rich stay rich who get all the free stuff. People that can afford it. Who get all the free verses, artists that can afford it.

[The Game]

Yeah, now you're right.

What I'm supposed to do, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You didn't make the rules, huh?

[The Game]

I got kids to take you.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Birdman. You almost signed with Birdman.

[The Game]

Yeah. Birdman is like just one of the biggest Game fans, man. He'll tell you himself. He'd be like, I always been a fan of Game man and he wanted to sign me in the beginning of my career, but I just had a choice to make and I felt like Dre was the best fit.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

After being in the rap game for almost two decades, what have you learned about this business?

[The Game]

That it ain't shit. That people it people. Everyone uses everybody, right?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You know, I had what you call him All Hell T Pain. He said that?

[The Game]

Oh yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

He said everybody that tell you they brother, they not your brother, they your brother.

[The Game]

As long as they seen the whole interview.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Appreciate you.

[The Game]

I can tell you what he said. Yeah, he got in some little hot water too. A little. A little bit. A little bit. But again, man, again we not in judgment. I felt like what he said was accurate to how I feel now I'm here on Club Shay Shay. I'll tell you the same thing. I don't know what needs to happen, but the bullshit level is. I don't know, it's tight. It's just blowing the Richter scale, bro. It's crazy.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Why can't we just be honest with each other, bro? I'm doing this feature.

[The Game]

I'm.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

That's what it is. I'm not your brother. I'm not. We doing business together, right? And it's okay. We can do business together. But it's that when you lie to my. Oh, that's my boy. That's my friend. That's my partner. That's my boat. And then you doing flaws behind my back.

[The Game]

But then again.

To go off what T. Pain was saying about himself, a lot of. And I don't know if he did this, but you'll be able to tell me, like, a lot of that is our own fault, right? Should we be thinking everybody's our brother to begin with, or are we young and then we grow wiser and we understand that everybody ain't our brother? So I think that whatever T. Pain went through in the industry, which is similar to what I've been through in the industry, you wouldn't be who you were today unless you went through those experiences. Everybody in NFL wasn't your brother. All the cats that you ran, you know that you went to training camp with, who you might have saw in college when y' all were young and cool. Like, when y' all get into the NFL, it's a competition.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, it is. But don't tell me you my partner. Oh, that was my boy, man. Me and game cool.

[The Game]

So a lot of people throw that. I think that we do that a lot as humans these days, right? We love Bomb, homie Bomb, brother Bomb, friend bomb, and do all that too much. And I don't know what that is, man. I just. I definitely limit who I call like family brother and do all that. And I told you in the beginning, man, like, I'm really adamant about pouring into who pours to me because it's yielding more positive results and making me happier every day of my life.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So is it a situation the business you like, ain't nothing going on that ain't ish. But the bad contracts, you feel like people push you. You signed some bad deals, you got put in some bad situations.

[The Game]

I feel like, yeah, I feel like.

There'S a mass agenda to take advantage of younger, talented artists that transcends music. It goes into every business in the world, whether it be Wall street or the NFL or the NBA. Like, of course, if you. So if you don't have the right representation and you allow them to put you in a contractual situation where, again, you are rendered helpless. It is what it is. You gotta get your team up from the beginning. So all younger artists sitting here watching me speak should make sure that they lawyer is top tier. And they team is on point. And you trust in the people who are down with you in the early stages of your career. And you build something like Birdman and Slim, right? Birdman been winning for I don't know how long. You could be mad as you want, but he good.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

So he did his business right? Master P, Another guy did his business right. Snoop Dogg selling Coronas car insurance. Shaq selling pizza.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. Abbey Hill. Hey, Snoop might be the biggest thing. I mean, have you ever seen anybody have a bigger transformation to go from what he was from Long Beach, California. Now he doing the Olympics. He's gotten projects with Martha Stewart. Can you get any more? Lily?

[The Game]

I always say that my top three people in life that everyone knows exist. Everyone. Everybody on earth know these three names. Jesus, Michael Jackson and Snoop. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Snoop. Once Snoop got with Martin Stewart, it was up. It was up.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Cause that's a match that nobody saw.

[The Game]

Yeah, nobody saw Snoop get his money, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Hey, I ain't mad at him. The Navy seal, the one that killed Osama bin Laden, Robert o'.

[The Game]

Neal.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. Was listening to Red Nation. How did that make you feel?

[The Game]

That made me feel kind of cool. I ain't gonna lie. You know, some things like, you know, you go through your career, man, and you got certain accolades that mean. Mean a lot. And some you could just be like, all right, but that one was kind of. That was a big deal.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

When you write a song, are you thinking about the environment or the people that could potentially listen to that song? Or you just write the song. You write how you feel in that moment.

[The Game]

I just write how I feel in that moment. And then at the end of the day. But you know what? I. Only when I write songs, I'll write a verse and a hook, and if I don't feel like it's gonna be, like, great, then I just won't finish it, you know? Right. So I'm not wasting time in the studio.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So you write the verse before you, because, like, you hear like, hov. Hov. Just be like, dumping. He hear the beat.

[The Game]

I don't think he right, though. I think he just.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. Like, Wayne. Wayne don't, like, write stuff up.

[The Game]

Wayne don't write at all. But see, those guys, man. But see, the difference between me and them is they were always rappers, you know what I'm saying? Like, they've been rapping for so long. Me, I chose rap to save my life, so I had to learn how to rap. You know what I'm saying? Like, really learn. And it was based off, like, Wayne was already. I think Wayne might have been in rap longer than Jay Z. But, yeah, I just. Again, I studied Wayne, early Wayne and all that. So it's like, those guys are different, man. The things that I've seen Wayne doing a studio is just remarkable.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Have you written for other artists?

[The Game]

Yeah, a lot.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Where are you on ghost writing? Because I've had a lot of people on and then some like, nah, nah. You can't be a true MC if you have Ghost Riders. And then some people, like, it's okay. Where are you on this?

[The Game]

You can't be a true MC.

If you have Ghost Riders. I don't think a true mc, Okay. A true emcee to me is like a Nas or Jay Z or Ice Cube or MC Ren.

Kendrick Lamar, like, you know, J. Cole. These are guys that have a skill set to really, like, they can go in any rap room and hold their own. Yeah, that's a true MC, KRS1.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

And you know those guys, that's KRS1. I look at KRS1, I look at Rakim, I look at Scarface. Those are lyricists.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Ain't very many of those anymore.

[The Game]

You know what? But it makes it. It makes it a lot easier to appreciate the ones that are here. Like, I listen to, you know, a lot of Kendrick. I listen to a lot of J. Cole. Right. I listen to a lot of jid. I've been listening to Ol Ye lately just to, you know, go back and just, you know, really feel good about the artistry of music. This genre of music. I mean, this era of music, it's not all for me, but I can still appreciate it and I can still apply. I'm not one of them. You know, them older artists or, you know, them legendary artists who was like, this ain't how it was when we used to be. I'm not doing that. You know what I'm saying? I can appreciate it and I can applaud.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You caused some criticism because fans say you was rapping some of the same freestyle that you was rapping when you were younger.

[The Game]

Yeah, well, no, it wasn't a freestyle, and I'm not really a freestyle artist.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

You know what I'm saying? And most times when. When rappers are freestyling, they probably wrote it, learned it, and then are coming in and freestyling.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So it ain't really off the dome like they saying it is.

[The Game]

No. And it's not a lot of people that could do that. There's a few guys that could really, really freestyle and go crazy. Wayne is One of them. Kendrick's another one. And you got a bunch of, like, freestyle rap artists. You know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But that's what they do.

[The Game]

It would be like Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr is not a dunker. But he can, you know, put it. He can put it in the rim. You know what I'm saying? He's a shooter. Curry's a shooter, not a dunker. LeBron Jordan. So it's just, you know, different. I mean, it differs. But for me, I was just being lazy in rap at that time. They would ask me in freestyle, and I would just be lazy. I would put like two, four bars before it, and I would spit this song that I knew by heart. Cause it had no hook, and it was just long. You know what I'm saying? And it was the red rose, white ceiling. And so when I see my kids send it to me first. And they thought it was funny, but I thought it was funny, too. And anytime that somebody's critiquing you or there's constructive criticism or destructive criticism, if you just embrace it, you can just go with it, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right? You know, rapping, other people are getting involved. Where are you on this? You know, you hear this term culture vulture?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Where are you on that?

[The Game]

I think that we all vultures or something, man. Like you. Again, we have all these different scenarios in the world where we could pass judgment on anybody. And there are entities that soak up the culture. But they've been doing that since, shit, Levi's and Strauss. The first blue jean was made by black people. You know, all the first, you know, you know, the soul singers and the jazz is all black people. So if other humans come in, man, and they become culture vultures, I mean, it is what it is. You know, we didn't necessarily create. And I'm talking about, you know, black people. We didn't create everything, but we created.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

A lot, a lot of it.

[The Game]

And other people created some things. Like, I mean, you have people like Asian people, right? Over in China, Japan, all those countries over there that created certain things. And am I like. If I like sushi, am I a culture vulture? You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, man, I'm getting to a point. And again, we're older, and I'm getting to a point where I'm just more relaxed, more understanding, more patient, more wise. And I'm not really passing judgment, man. Right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Sample.

Would you let someone sample your music?

[The Game]

Yeah, for the right price.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Let me ask you a question. They sample it. Do you have to hear their song before you say, okay.

[The Game]

If you are really meticulous about letting your music go.

For instance, like, Anita Baker doesn't let anyone sample. I remember when I was younger, I think Dre tried to sample and she said no to Dr. Dream. So it's like some people just want their music to stay, you know, sacred to them and their fans and the legacy that they've built and leave it in that time that it was and just let it be exactly what it was, which is amazing. Music that transcends, you know, decades and decades. Another person that does that is, I think, Sade. But I do think that she. I think she let Rema use.

Her voice on Is It a Crime? So, I mean, yeah, it just varies, man, but I'm always down, man, to support other artists. You wanna sample my music? It's all good, but, you know.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So what was the hardest sample that you had to get cleared?

[The Game]

Sheesh.

I don't think I've ever really had a hard time clearing a sample. When you got the machine and I mean, like Interscope. Yeah, Interscope. And, you know, Dr. Dre, aftermath behind you. It's really about the dollar amount. So as long as somebody can cover the dollar amount, you're pretty good. I've never tried to sample Anita or Day or anything like that, but I've never really ran into any.

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[The Game]

Tupac samples might be the hardest.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Where are you on streaming? Because I get a lot. I mean, some people, like, love it, some people, hate it. Some people say it's destroyed the music industry as far as albums, being able to sell albums because everything seemed like everything down there goes straight to streaming now.

[The Game]

I think it's another ploy that the Mass Agenda came up with to shortchange the artists, talented people, and so I'm impartial to it. But then people are getting streams in the billions.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yes.

[The Game]

We weren't selling billions of albums. So, I mean, you know, it's just. It is what it is. This is where we're at in life. We're streaming music. We phased out of CDs and records and eight tracks. And you just gotta go with the times, man. And the person that told me to do that, to have longevity, was Ice Cube.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Wow.

[The Game]

He said, you have to embrace where hip hop is right now, man, and.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Not worry about what it used to be, man. I remember with it, you know? Cause the old timers, man. I remember back in my day. You're not back in your day no more. And it ain't coming back. It's not right.

Best hip hop album in history.

Hmm.

[The Game]

Best hip hop album in history. Jesus, man.

For me, personally, personally. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

[Venmo Advertiser]

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

For me, personally, if I'm not mistaken, that guy. But didn't I get voted, like, the best album of all time?

[The Game]

Oh, did it?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I think it did. Wasn't Apple Music, I think Apple Music, that album.

[The Game]

I question it. I listen to it. I ask myself how, while I'm listening to it, everything on there, from start to finish, is seamlessly classic. And so, yeah, it's funny that this is number one album music. Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. I think that's it.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What's the best rap album?

[The Game]

The best rap album of all time?

For me.

This is tough, man.

The Chronic.

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

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[The Game]

The Chronic. Yeah. That album. That album set us up for a very long time. And I mean, again, man, Snoop is selling Q tips Coronas. Come on, man.

And that. Wasn't that more like you do you feel like. I mean, I feel like this. It was more Snoop's album than it was Dre, because Snoop.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

It was definitely Snoop's coming out party.

[The Game]

And Snoop wrote that. Wrote the rhymes, too. All of them, you know, for the most part. So, yeah, him and corrupt. But yeah. Yeah, Chronic album is crazy.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Now that you, you know, you're not 24 anymore. You done fighting in the streets.

[The Game]

Am I? Am I not? I don't know. I looked at myself before I left. I'm looking 24ish, baby. Yeah, man, you know, man, you gotta.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Let that go, Gabe.

[The Game]

Nah, man, I'm on my Jim Jones, fab, Mayno stuff, man. You know what I'm saying? I'm a Y N out here.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Hey, what about. Would you do an exhibition boxing match?

[The Game]

If the money right, I'll do it.

Win, lose, draw, it don't matter to me. Just get the bread right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Nah.

[The Game]

Okay.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I ain't taking no Ls. I gotta feel like.

[The Game]

I mean, hey, at the end of the day, man, I'm not a professional boxer. So if somebody got the right bread, I get in there.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Against another non professional boxer for sure.

[The Game]

Yeah. I'm taking that off top and you throw me an extra couple million, I fall. I fall in the third.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Man. You gonna taste the canvas, take a fall.

[The Game]

I'll make that shit look like the most dramatic fall you ever seen, depending on.

The dollar amount.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Did you beat Mike Tyson in an arm wrestling match?

[The Game]

For sure, but again, it's the older Mike Tyson, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, so you caught him when he was like 55, 56?

[The Game]

Yeah, man, a few years. I think it was like two years ago. He definitely strong, but I definitely won. And it wasn't like I won.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

It wasn't close.

[The Game]

No, I won. No, it was a little. It was a little tough.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Little tough.

[The Game]

But I definitely beat Mike Tyson in arm wrestling. And you know, he gonna laugh about it like, ah, I can't. He just playing with, you know, I might do his thing, but I definitely won for sure.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Hold on. Tell me about this dating show that you was on. Change of Heart.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You tried. You know What?

[The Game]

I wasn't 24. I was 18.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay?

[The Game]

I was 18. My girlfriend at the time, bro, listen. We were laying in the bed, chilling in my mom's house, okay? We was watching TV commercial, came on. If you want to be on Change of Heart, she was like, we should go on there. I was like, okay, cool. She was like, they pay $1,000 for every couple. We saw that. Right, right. I'm like, $1,000. 500. 500. Cool. Let's do it. She called the people, man. Put our name in. I'M never thinking they gonna call back, man. They called back the next day. They were like, can you come down to LA next week? I end up getting. I cut my hair bald, man. I got me a little FUBU shirt for the mall, some FUBU jeans, some Jordans she got, you know, she got all did up. And we got in the car and we drove down to la, man, and we went to it. And that was my first brush with, like, this is really like a show for show, right? So what happened was you don't get to choose the outcome, Right. They have it already written. It's scripted, but I didn't know that. I thought, I get to go on, you know, a little date with a chick Smash. Maybe leave my girl for her and, like, experience something real. But.

It wasn't like that, man. It was a whole production. We had to learn the script and read it like exact. We had to cut, take, cut. And then we had to come back and they made the decision. And when I saw my card, I was like, why I gotta get done?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You know?

[The Game]

And hers was like, to choose another guy. But yeah, after that we went home together. Well, I mean, we went back, drove back together, blah, blah, blah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So they don't actually go out on a date with other people?

[The Game]

No, we went on a date, but after the show, like, me and my girl at that time, we were locked in. So we drove right back home and we had our little check and we busted down. We end up, like, going to the movies and doing a bunch of stuff. And, you know, we went in JCPenney's. I got me some Docker fits and she got her some little dresses and we was all right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So what did you think when those clips resurfaced? Like, damn, man. Gang got dumped. This girl dumped him, chose the other guy, man.

[The Game]

I was 18, I had the time of my life and I got paid for it. And I think that that's just part of my story too, man. Like, I was just, you know, when you're young, man, you do all kind of stuff, trying to find your way.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I read that you said, I regret sleeping with so many women because there was really no intent to have anything long term.

[The Game]

Yeah, about that. Sleeping with women. Just multiple women. During times in my life where I was just going through life as a young hip hop artist. It wasn't when I was in my twenties, I didn't really. I didn't really care, you know, I'm young, the girl's young. We.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

They, having a good time. I'm having a Good time.

[The Game]

And that's it. I keep your number in my phone, you know, and then we'll talk again. Or maybe we won't. As you get older, man, you start to realize that because I have a type of woman, like I'm into classy women, you know what I'm saying? Classy independent women who are not easy. You know what I'm meaning that money and fame ain't gonna really get you this type of woman. You gotta be charismatic, funny, and you have to be a gentleman. These are the type of women that I'm attracted to. So frequenting different women in that caliber of women, you start to feel bad because these are somebody. You're like, you're literally holding somebody's wife hostage because these women are going to get married. Married with a great guy.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yes.

[The Game]

Right. So the longer that you prolong this relationship or.

These relations with this person, you have no intention in having a future with man, the worse you feel as you get older if you have the type of heart and conscience that I do. So, yeah, I had to slow down on all that.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Did you feel like you were a womanizer?

[The Game]

For sure, for sure, for sure. 100%. And I don't think it was fair to anybody, not even myself.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Did you apologize to him?

[The Game]

Now that's a little.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I'm big on apology. I big on apology.

[The Game]

I'll be apologizing till next Christmas.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You once said that men should stay single unless they're ready for a two week minimum of $200. Lashes, $300. Hair 250. Nails, 200. Toes 200. Makeup, 500. Lunch money, 500. Drink with the homegirls and $1,000 for clothes, not including rent, car note, bill help.

[The Game]

Yeah, I think that that is bare minimum for a woman that you're taking serious.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

500. 750. 9501-150165-02150. $2250, not including rent. Car note.

[The Game]

Just stop.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Damn.

[The Game]

Yeah, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So that's like five, that's like five, six grand a month, gang.

[The Game]

And that's low. That ain't, you know, five grand.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh yeah, for la, that's really low.

[The Game]

Like we live in Los Angeles.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, for sure.

[The Game]

Even if you give a woman five grand, right, and she has a decent apartment. Yeah, that's, you know, it's 2,700 for a decent one.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Easy.

[The Game]

She has a car, no car insurance. That's gonna be about 1,000. So that's 37, right. She got her.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

She riding the bus for a thousand a month.

[The Game]

Her self Care her self care, man. That's gonna be about a thousand.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

Cause you wanna look nice, now you have 4700. So then the bill, cell phone bill, all that. She gonna be flat broke.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

So what I was saying is if you're going to take a woman serious, and you're the type of man that I am, like, I'm a caretaker. I just. That is my.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You take over everything. You hit the door, you like, I got this.

[The Game]

I got you, I got you. If we're exclusive, this is what I think that you deserve. Based on how I was raised by the three women that I was raised by, which would be my aunt, my Auntie Pat, my mother and my grandmother.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

There was a lot. Cam Newton caused a lot of controversy that he asked this girl.

Who she been with.

[The Game]

Body count. Don't do that.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Don't do that.

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Cause he said he didn't want to be. He didn't want to be Kiki Ki in some guy face knowing that I don't mind.

[The Game]

Don't tell me I'm with you. Yeah, I don't.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I'm with you when you write.

[The Game]

Because we always be like, you know, like, you gotta give women credit because they strong. We do a lot of bullshit and women put up with it, right? But women lead with emotions. We lead, you know, what we lead with. And so, you know, sometimes my girl asks me, you know, like, what? What is it? And I'd be like, I don't know. Like, we men in general, you can be tall, fat, skinny, rich, poor. We all have this thing to where we like to frequent multiple women. Which makes me believe that, I don't know, somewhere in our creation that we weren't supposed to just be with women.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Monogamous.

[The Game]

Yeah, we weren't supposed to be like that. Or else why do we have these urges we didn't create ourselves, Right. I'm still a work in progress myself.

But women, they're faithful and they're intuitive and they know when you're doing it anyway. They just know somehow. But yeah, women lead with their emotions. So take this. Your girl. Most women, right, especially the good women, they're not just gonna go and have sex with somebody. No, they're not. They have to be fully moved on. They're not even gonna do it for revenge. They have to be emotionally detach from you to move on. Right? We can be in love with you still go have sex with a woman. And soon as we get that posting that clarity, we are Scooby Doo legs back to the house. Hey, Baby, how was your day? You know, hella, like, walking in there like, you know, we don't know what's going on. But, yeah, man, like, women and men differ in that space, man. And so, you know, as men, as real men, we just got to do better.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Where are you on your homeboy? Your homeboy dating this girl? She 5 10, 165. Nice hair. Lashes nailed. I mean, she nice.

[The Game]

65 is thick.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yep. 5 10, though.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, she on up there. You know what I'm saying? She on up there. You know what I'm saying?

[The Game]

Like, maybe stack.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Stack like dirty laundry in the dorm room.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You know what I'm saying?

[The Game]

I don't want no issues, Clay.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So they break up. You cool with hollering at her?

[The Game]

I think that. I think I'm cool with that. Ah, no.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

The answer was no.

[The Game]

Here's the thing.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

The answer is no.

[The Game]

No, it ain't. Let me tell you why. Let me tell you why. The reason is, is love is a really mysterious fruit. And the person, the woman that's dating your homie. Yeah, that might be your soulmate, you don't know. And if he didn't marry her or he doesn't have children with her, then she just goes back into the single.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Market with everybody else for somebody that don't know her. Right.

[The Game]

But I just feel like.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Which is me.

[The Game]

I feel like it's better if you know her.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, it's not better.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No.

[The Game]

Yes.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So how you invite your homeboy? Hey, homeboy, come on over, man. Let's watch the game.

[The Game]

Hey, look.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

And then here she come trotting out there. Hey, game, what you want to drink?

[The Game]

No, but guess what?

Again, the type of woman that I'm attracted to is never gonna date my homie, ever.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I mean, never and ever is a long time.

[The Game]

It hasn't happened. I'm half dead.

Cause I'm saying when I was 45. Three days ago. When I was 45, you double that. That's 90. I mean, maybe I live to 90, but I'm on the other side.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[The Game]

Like, yeah, man, I gotta. I gotta be real, you know, a realist. And people would agree if they honest with themselves. But you got a lot of people. They gonna cut this up. They gonna see clips, they gonna be.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Like, game say you should fuck with. I'm talking about your homie, homie. I ain't talking about somebody in the industry that you was cool with or something like that. I'm talking about your homie.

[The Game]

I feel like if you guys are not engaged, not married, and you do not have children. That. That woman is fair game.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

She's not fair game.

[The Game]

I don't know.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

He is awful. She is off the game. She off the block.

I don't know.

[The Game]

Agree to disagree.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So where are you on spinning the block?

[The Game]

I don't really. I don't really spend the block, man. I feel like what's in the rear view is in the rear view. And then, you know, like, I know.

Ain'T nothing like that. New. New.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I don't know. I'm just, you know, hey, maybe it's time for me to spin the block.

[The Game]

Let me know how that work out for you.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You had a reality show called Marrying the Game. Yeah. You still wanna get married?

[The Game]

Yeah, I wanna be a husband.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You wanna be a husband?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I mean, just entitled or you wanna be a husband?

[The Game]

No. No. That's why I'm not married. Because I ain't been.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

I haven't been husband material up to this point, but I think that I'm the best verse.

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[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

Oh, stressing me out. Why are all the people I love so hard to shop for like me? Exactly, exactly, honey.

[Matt Rogers]

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[Bowen Yang]

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[The Game]

Now as far as like you know, relationship is concerned these days, like you know.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Have you ever been engaged?

[The Game]

I've been engaged twice.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Who called it off, you or her?

[The Game]

I think the first one I called off cause I was just immature. 24. And then the second one, my kid's mom, she called it off cause I was running around.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You got the bad, huh?

[The Game]

She a schoolteacher, man. She just wasn't going for the disrespect. The public disrespect.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, for sure.

You Have a new kid and it's, boy, they be tearing you up. Game I had to look at it. They were tearing you up?

[The Game]

Tearing me up, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah. Cause bad days, like how you have a kid from your friend's daughter.

[The Game]

Yeah. So the thing is, is my kid's mom went to Evelyn's baby shower, but they are not friends.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay?

[The Game]

She just went to the baby shower.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay.

[The Game]

You know what I'm saying? If you go to a Taylor Swift concert, it don't make you and Taylor Swift, you know, friends. Right. You're just there. But yeah, so the public, fans or whatever, they just got that part, you know, twisted, like, they're not friends.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay. So she just happened to be at the shower.

[The Game]

She just came to her baby shower.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay. Oh, I thought baby shower was like, invite on, but okay, man, you gotta.

[The Game]

Get with these women. But what I can tell you is they're not friends. But again, man, when you're dealing with, you know, grown, immature and classy women, man, they, you know, that. That they don't really speak much on it or have anything to say negative about it or feed into, you know, the Internet's pool of, like, explanation.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Did you know who she. Did you know who she was when you saw her, when you met her?

[The Game]

Yeah, for sure. But then again, you know, I don't be having no filters Sometimes, Shannon.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I.

[The Game]

Am a work in progress.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So. I mean, you like classy, you like independent. So this might like, two peasies, too. Yeah, two. She might come from a. You know, might come. You know, this might be your best chance.

[The Game]

Yeah. Who might be my best chance?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Situation you in right now.

[The Game]

Oh, yeah. You know. Hey, you never know, man. Tik tok. You never know. TikTok, TikTok. I'm on the clock for sure.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

My grandmother used to tell me, man, we only live for three scores and a 10. You know what that is? No, that's. It's in the Bible. I think every score is 20 years.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

20 years.

[The Game]

So 70 years is. If you live 70 years, then you lived a good life for sure. And you. Shit, we almost. You almost.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, I got 57 sambas under, but bell.

[The Game]

See? All right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No age.

[The Game]

13 more, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

You know, so I'm gonna get on the ball. Not saying that at 13 more you're gone, but I'm saying, like, you know, after 13, you lived a good life.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Just in case. I better speed up. Yeah, man, they tell my bad, you need to slow down.

[The Game]

I got less time at your homies. Exes. It might be.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, no, no. Oh, hey, yo, watch.

[The Game]

We gonna see Shannon end up engaged to one of his homies exes.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, that ain't gonna happen.

[The Game]

The better love of your life.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Dude, I. Absolutely not. Would you ever abstain from premarital sex until you were married?

[The Game]

I don't think I'm that guy. I think I'm raw diggity dog. I ain't gonna lie, man.

Sometimes I can't even find the condoms, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Come on, Gabe.

[The Game]

Come on, man. Man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, Lord have mercy.

[The Game]

You would know. You wear. You wear your shoes with no socks.

Same thing. You like to be free.

Come on now. Come on, man. Let the church say amen in here, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, no restriction, you know.

[The Game]

Cheers in there, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, God damn.

[The Game]

See, early offset to me.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Hey, but you caused some criticism, man. You had to wedding how you hug the man wife like that, Gabe.

[The Game]

Yo, that's like my sister, man. See? Yo, the Internet is terrible, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, it is.

[The Game]

I've been knowing Kamiyah for so long, man. I'm good with her. Like, people see that, but they don't see me, you know, in a picture with her dad, in a picture with her mom. And then Brad is my dog. Like, that's my dog. That's like my brother and my sister, you know what I'm saying? So it is what it is. But the Internet always gonna find something out of something, man. Yeah, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I don't know about you. You talking about you date your homeboy girl?

[The Game]

Yeah. Nah, not that. That's literally like my sister, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So what type of father are you? What type of father if you, hey, come talk to your dad, you know, you stern but fair. I mean, what type of dad is game?

[The Game]

I'm just. I'm an open book. Just keep it 100 and we won't have no problems. Don't lie to me. Cause I'm a catch it. I'm old enough to be a real father, but I'm young enough to keep up with you on social media. So just don't try to get it off. It's not gonna work. I tell my kids that every single time. I've got my sons to a point where they're adults now and they living together and doing their brother thing. And so I got my daughter and then I got my little son. But yeah, I parent the same way. I. I treat them all the same. I give them the same values and you know, up to this point, it's went off without a hitch.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Do you parent the girls different than you do the boys?

[The Game]

Yeah, man, my daughter, man, she is a straight A student, and she is the love of my life. She also has a Christian podcast, too. We gonna have to get you on one, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Christian.

[The Game]

Christian podcast. Oh, yeah. We gotta get you on season two. Season one, we was busy, you know, but we got you. But, yeah, man, she's a good girl, but parenting a daughter is. It's very different being a father to a daughter that's going through. Being a teenager is crazy, man. And all my kids, except the baby has had one. Not a whooping, traditional with a belt, but I had to buy them on my sons once each, and then they got it, and we never had a thing again.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Right.

[The Game]

And so not long ago, man, I had to. Me and my daughter, we had a little challenging day, and I was like, hey, is it punishment or is it a whooping? And she was like, yep, punishment. And so that's about as far as we got it. But I don't think I could ever. I could ever discipline her the way that we got disciplined.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, no. You going to jail.

[The Game]

Yeah. Oh, for sure. Damn.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

You going to jail.

[The Game]

Yeah, you can still get that off in the south somewhere.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

No, you can't. My kid's grown, so I ain't got to worry about that. And I'm done.

[The Game]

Yeah, well, my mama threatened me. Did she know? Oh, yeah, like, two days ago. I'm saying, can she go to jail?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, you might have to call that in. That's a threat.

[The Game]

Imagine me calling CPS. Hey, I'm 46, man.

But, yeah. Nah, man. My daughter, man, she my lifeline, man. And I definitely. She's the number one drive for everything that I do these days.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Nick Cannon said he'd rather raise a bully than his child be bullied.

[The Game]

I agree with that. Yeah. I mean, as a father, your kid's grown, grown and so.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Grown, grown.

[The Game]

Yeah. So when you raise a man, I know you raised him to not be pushed. Nobody wants to have kids to be bullied, but sometimes kids just get bullied, right? So I think I'm partial to both sides because I sympathize with kids that are getting bullied. I don't think that's cool. And being a former bully, but I bullied different. Like, I bullied all the bullies in school. You know what I'm saying? I've been, like, the same height since fifth grade. They thought I was gonna be a giant. But, yeah, man, I'm not. My kids are not. My daughter don't fight. But she shouldn't. My daughter's like, dad, what would I. If Somebody tried to fight me. What would I do? Like, I was like, you just, you know, you put your arms. And she's like, oh, no, I can never. I'm just like, hey, well be a princess. But yeah. And she five, nine, you know, but my sons, they, you know, they with it.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

How do you parent the oldest two boys compared to the youngest now? How are you parenting different? Because that was a long time ago.

[The Game]

Game. Yeah, I think I'm more seasoned as a father at this point. And I think for the most part during these stages, the early toddler stages, I think it's all mommy and all financial support and presence from the father, but the mom has to do the day to day. And so I think that's just what it is. And it yields better results when you let the mom take control and you're just there to support whatever they may need, no matter what that is.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What's the key to co parenting successfully?

[The Game]

To let the woman just run it. Let her pick the school, pick the clothes, and you just pay. That's it. Shut up.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is it hard to discipline the child? Cause I found it very hard to discipline my child when, you know, they do something and their mom would call me, I was like, well, what do you want me to do? I'm not there, right? So it's really hard. Cause I don't want the child that when they see me, I'm playing. And when they see me, ah, I'm all in your face like that. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's like, take care of it. Now when you. They're under my roof and they misbehaving.

Obviously, but how difficult is that for you? When the kids were growing up and you weren't there on a day to day and they call you, it's like, man, game, they didn't call you. He probably called you by your government name.

[The Game]

We just, you know, we do it like the feds do. We just build a case. And when I get back, when I get back, I'm gonna get with you.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Then I got a rico. Then they got a RICO charge, y'.

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[The Game]

I'm gonna hit you with the rico. You did this, this and that. We gonna let it stack up if I ain't there.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Did you see, like, I think it was Kanye that he had an issue with. I think north west is his oldest daughter and he had an issue with the way she's dressing. Did you ever have an issue with the way your daughter's dress?

[The Game]

Uh, yeah. You know, times are changing, man. And I never seen my daughter dress any more inappropriately than the advertisements in the wall at these little girl stores.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Okay.

[The Game]

Um, so that's where I gauged it from. It's their time they wearing, you know, their stomach out and alter tops and little skirts and whatnot. And so we ran into a couple of little times where I had to get her. Right. But that's when that private school come in, you know what I'm saying? But the dress code, wearing the same thing every single day. You know, them skirts gotta be, you know, covered knees and all that. So she really on the week, by the time the weekend comes, she wants to hang out with her friends. You know, usually her mom's with her now. She's getting to a point, she's 15, where I'm letting her go to the promenade or hang out with her friends and all that. And I got her location, but I trust my daughter. Yeah, I trust her. We built over the last 15 years, which it felt like 30. We built a good rapport with each other. And yeah, I love her and I trust her and she, yeah, again, you know, she God fearing man. So she know what's up.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is there anything that you wouldn't allow her to wear?

[The Game]

Uh, fuck. Um, yeah, man, we not over sexualizing ourselves. We're not doing piercings in places where they, where I don't feel like they belong. But I also did tell her as soon as she's 18, she can make decisions.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

That's how I was.

[The Game]

I'm gonna tap out at that point. And I think that all decisions as far as like boyfriends and relationships and intimacy and all that, revert back to her mother. Yeah, I think that I've got you to 18. Obviously. She's going to a premier college and from there you and your mother should be able to navigate through these things. I only come in when something gets weird or disrespectful or something like that. But I think that I'm raising an outstanding young woman and she'll be. She gonna go and do great things.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

How do you handle the social media, my daughters? You. Because, you know, people come at you all kind of high and say crazy things, but. So where are you now? Because.

I can't imagine. And it's hard because, like, people are so receptive and so respectful when they see you in person.

[The Game]

Right.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But when they can hide behind that computer. Computer screen and be in that basement or be somewhere that's far, far away, out of reach, out of touch, they say the most disrespectful and reckless.

[The Game]

Well, you gotta start at the foundation. The foundation of it all is they follow you, right? Not the other way around. So if you are 100% invested in yourself, your brand and who you are, and you're operating at, you know, the highest level of confidence, you should have no problem with anybody saying what they say. It would be like the Walton family in Walmart. Everybody ain't gonna like the chicken and Al3, but we Walmart and we got 100,000 of these stores, and you can't please everybody, man. So I don't. Even if I catch some bullshit, I'll go in there and be a troll. You know, I have my 50 moments where I just go and don't care and make comedy out of it. But for the most part, I don't even read it and I don't even care about it because it is someone somewhere unhappy with themselves, you know, diving in with an opinion that no one else cares to hear except, you know, this platform. And I think a lot of times these days.

We lose sight of what social media is, right? It's literally social media. Instagram is a video and picture app. TikTok is a video app. You just gotta understand what it is. That YouTuber. But then again, listen, if I got a gambling problem and I keep going to the casino, I mean, is it MGM fault or my fault? If I have a. If I have a social media addiction and I can't stay off the app, then how am I gonna complain about something that's going on within, you know, that little camera space? So it's like, I don't get into all that, man. I get on there. I don't really post that much, but when I do post and people comment or they got something to say about game, like, say what you want to say at the end of the day. I started off trying to make a name for myself and be great and being able to take care of my family and provide for my children. I've done remarkable job at that. And so I don't really care what nobody got to say if it ain't positive.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is that how you protect your mental health?

[The Game]

Oh, the mental health started back in the, you know, the foster home. When I told you I built that wall up, I stopped giving a shit about things that would, like, had me in my head too much. I just don't. I'm not thinking about that. I'm thinking about how many days left I got on Earth, making the best of them and being kind to as many people as I can before I.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Go.

Tell us about the tattoos. I mean, what made you decide to get tattoos on your face?

[The Game]

Cause my grandmother. Everything's gonna revert back to my grandmother. She told me my mom was mad that I was getting tattoos when I was young. And her mother, my grandmother told her, her daughter, she was like, well, the skin is just a costume that he borrowing for God. Borrowing from God for about 80 years, she said. And you know, at the end of the day when we pass, we all have to turn our costumes back in that God let us be. Which would be the shell of a man. He is just gonna have writin on it. What's the big deal? And so from there, man, I just went crazy. And tattoos are addictive, man. Once you get one, you just keep on going.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I ain't got none.

[The Game]

Good, man. I always wanted to be you. I was you at one point.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

I ain't got no pierces.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

See? Limited facial hair.

[The Game]

Yeah, you good, man.

Living the American dream, Shannon.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

But you have look, you got the facial tattoos. You got a tattoo dedicated to Kobe. Which tattoo did you have means the most to you?

[The Game]

I think I got my daughter's face plastered, like right in the middle of my chest. And every time I see it, I just remember this point in life where she was like, I didn't want her to grow older than that age. You know how it is. And then they do, and then it gets a little weird and you're like, where's my baby? But yeah, man, they'll come back.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Cause they go through that stage like they cute and then all of a sudden they get that teenage years and they get them hormones start going and they hate you. And then they come back and they like everything that you said.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So it's gonna be full circle. But she 15.

[The Game]

Yeah. How's your oldest?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

33.

[The Game]

Oh, yeah. See?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

So where do you get 17, 18, 19.

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[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Mm.

Acting. You done with acting or you want to get back into it?

[The Game]

You know what? I'm really good at acting, but.

It'S the hurry up and wait. I do not like that, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

That's crazy.

[The Game]

It's like we would be shooting a movie and they would ask us to be there at 4am and I wouldn't be shooting until 4pm and I can't figure out for the life of me why I gotta be trailer. But then again, it's somebody's money. They want everybody on set. And, you know, they may want you earlier, it may change. So I get it. But that was the main reason why I passed on a Lot of stuff in my 20s and 30s. But now I think I'm at that age where I can get back into it. Cause, you know, kids are.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, you got more patience now as you got older.

[The Game]

I got a lot more patience, man.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Is there any roles that you turned down that you regret?

[The Game]

I think.

The B.A. baracus role in the A Team.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Oh, yeah.

[The Game]

And it went to Rampage. Yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Why you turn it down? You wasn't sure what your agent.

[The Game]

I think I might have been 24. Who knows?

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

That was a good and a bad year for you, huh? So what of all. Cause you've been on set with Tyrese, Megan Goode. You had Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr. And Street Kings. You had Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker. What's your favorite memories about being on the set?

[The Game]

Just being in a place that I know where I know I was the rookie and I needed to be my best because I didn't want to make anybody think that just because I was big in one genre, that I can come over here and just act like a spoiled rich rapper from the hip hop world. But again, man, from, you know, working with Reese and Forest Whitaker and Megan, and, you know, these are actor actors. You know what I'm saying? And so I never wanted to. I never wanted to make them feel like I didn't appreciate the opportunities. Cause the Street Kings, that was all. Reese did that for me. And so I just always wanted to make sure that when I step into an acting role or when I step on set, that I am just playing my position.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

If you could go back and do anything differently in your career, what would it be and why?

[The Game]

If I can go back and I don't really regret anything, but if I can go back and change anything, I probably.

Man.

Yeah, I don't know. That's crazy. Cause I just don't live with regret. One thing I would have did better, money management. I think that's it. I think when I was young, I spent maybe $10 million on just jewelry from the time that I was 24 to the time that probably I was 30.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Damn.

[The Game]

Yeah. And I don't have any of it. I gave it away or threw it in the crowd or did a lot of stuff. And it's like, remember, you're saying, the rich give rich. I gave Dre, like, two watches before. Wow.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

What is the biggest difference between the game 2005 and the one that's sitting on the couch across from me today?

[The Game]

I think the biggest. The one thing that stands out. When you asked me the first thing that I thought about is that I care if I live or die.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Now you got a reason to.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

There's nothing like living for someone else.

[The Game]

Nah, that's all the joy in life comes from that sentiment right there.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Wow.

You got anything you want to promote? You got a mixtape coming out with DJ Drama Drops on December 5th. Your album drops next year. Mixtape. Game album.

[The Game]

Game Mixtape is fun. I don't have to take it too serious. I did this mixtape in a weekend, an album I worked on for a year, so maybe longer than that. But I can't.

My album and you know, my catalog has to be given the type of love it deserves. So if I'm working on the album, it's serious and mixtape, I just want to have some fun.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

All right. The Coast Guard the game.

Appreciate you.

[The Game]

All my life been grinding all my life Sacrifice, hustle, paid the price want a slice got to roll the dice to swat all my life.

Grinding all my life.

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[The Game]

What a matchup we got. Yo.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat everybody showing that school pride Game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola.

[The Game]

Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band that has lifetime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola.

[The Game]

That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard.

[Interviewer (Shannon Sharpe)]

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[The Game]

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