All The Smoke: The Game Responds To EVERYTHING | Kendrick, Drake & The State of Rap

Summary

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The Breakfast Club: All The Smoke — The Game Responds To EVERYTHING | Kendrick, Drake & The State of Rap

Date: March 7, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guest: The Game

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Episode Overview

This candid, unfiltered episode features West Coast rap legend The Game reflecting on fatherhood, the evolution of hip hop, authenticity in the music industry, and his own place among rap's greats. He addresses lingering controversies, gives honest takes on J. Cole, Kendrick, Drake, the state of media, and much more, weaving in stories from his upbringing, career, and personal growth. The overall tone is introspective, real, and at times playful, with The Game baring both his pride and his regrets.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Fatherhood and Personal Growth

• Timestamp: 05:19

  • The Game reflects on how fatherhood changed him, forcing him to prioritize others above himself.
  • Quote: “You just, you know what it really does, right? It's like you gotta care about other people More than you care about yourself. That’s number one…when his daughter Callie was born…my decision was made when they was born. Like, that’s it.” (The Game, 05:28)

• Describes his youth, being left alone while his mom worked, and compares the “outside” childhood of his generation to kids today.

2. Health, Loss, and Motivation

• Timestamp: 08:07
  • Game shares motivation for getting in shape after his father died of a heart attack, and his mother’s ongoing heart issues.
  • Quote: “My pops died from a heart attack in 2018, right? So that’s number one…my mom has, you know, a pacemaker…So me, as their direct link, their son, I gotta be intentional about, like, getting it in.” (The Game, 08:07)

3. Longevity in Hip Hop

• Timestamp: 09:27 – 10:56
  • Reflects on having rapped over 20 years, citing older rappers still going strong as inspiration.
  • Recognizes artists like Hov, Nas, Clipse, Bun B for their continued relevance.
  • Quote: “As long as it’s open season on a skill set being top tier, I feel like everybody should do it.” (The Game, 09:50)

4. The State of Hip Hop & Social Media

• Timestamp: 10:23 – 12:32
  • Discusses authenticity in hip hop, the impact of social media, and monetary power in the new era.
  • Recognizes NBA Youngboy as a figure for the new generation—likening him to what Tupac was to his era.

5. Feminism and Women in Hip Hop

• Timestamp: 12:32 – 14:25
  • Reminisces about the early icons (MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim, Mony Love), acknowledging a new crop of female rappers.
  • Expresses desire for more originality, while recognizing the “copycat” trend.

6. Clout, Media, Internet Trolls

• Timestamp: 21:38 – 24:32
  • Critiques hip hop commentary from those without experience, calling out figures like DJ Akademiks.
  • Quote: “A lot of this shit ain’t built on principle…For academics or anybody else in media…one day somebody might not be with the bullshit that you on.” (The Game, 22:08)
  • Warns about the dangers of clout chasing and being “first and wrong” in reporting.

7. Respect, Legacy & Career Reflections

• Timestamp: 25:13 – 30:23

  • Addresses whether his reputation and antics have overshadowed his artistry.
  • Quote: "Every rapper alive that’s one of them guys will tell you that I’m not to be fucked with…But I’m a jokester. A lot of people take it, you know, too serious. But…I wake up in the mirror, bro. I’m in love with who I see." (The Game, 28:35)

• Acknowledges missing out on money and opportunities due to past choices but affirms his growth: "I'm well spoken, well dressed, and I'm sitting down with the guys that really...put them yachts on that water." (The Game, 25:30)

8. Kendrick, Drake & The State of the Big Three

• Timestamp: 30:23 – 32:15 / 43:45 – 44:00

  • Revisits his competitive stance in Compton, challenging Kendrick to "bar with me," yet always rooting for his success.
  • On Drake, calls him the most powerful artist in hip hop today; praises Kendrick and J. Cole.
  • Quote: “If I’m not the best, number one, let’s get this out the way. If you don’t think you’re the best at what you do, why are you doing it?...if I’m not, show me. Just bar with me.” (The Game, 30:32)

• Disappointed that J. Cole backed out of a “big three” lyrical sparring moment, but respects all three artists’ success.

9. The Game’s Creative Process and Authenticity

• Timestamp: 34:17 – 38:53

  • Describes his ‘Gangsta Grills’ mixtape and ongoing projects.
  • Stresses versatility and audacity, claiming no one can out-rap him.
  • Quote: “It ain’t no beat I can’t rap on. It ain’t no style I can’t go into and out of…I'm the only nigga in hip hop that can say any fucking thing. And everybody just gonna be like, oh, that's game.” (The Game, 36:13)

• Shares the experience of finally working with DJ Drama—fulfilling a bucket list item.

10. Industry Trends: Streaming, AI, and Media

• Timestamp: 55:11 – 57:43

  • Calls out fake streaming numbers and bots inflating success.

  • Quote: “There’s no way that these guys are streaming like this, right? …It’s kind of like the payola, but on a different scale because you could really kind of hide it behind these bots.” (The Game, 55:15)

  • Briefly addresses AI and music, then pivots to NIL deals in college athletics, likening music “cheat codes” to classic video game hacks.

11. Sports Sidebar: Basketball, LeBron, Lakers

• Timestamp: 63:23 – 67:09

  • Recalls playing with/against LA basketball legends ("Super Crip" David Hamilton, Ray Young).
  • Praises LeBron’s longevity and his ability to play with his son.
  • Quote: “LeBron’s 40, 41. I seen him bang on somebody...LeBron number one at playing at that age. Incredible like that, man. Like, shut up.” (The Game, 65:06)

• Offers thoughts on Vince Carter, legendary All-Star moments, NBA/WNBA sneaker game, and the pride in seeing peers' kids excel.

12. Super Bowl Halftime (and Hip Hop Representation)

• Timestamp: 50:19 – 52:04

  • Reacts to not being selected for the LA Super Bowl halftime show, suggesting major city events should reflect local icons.

  • Expresses maturity in putting himself in others’ shoes: “I had to put myself in Dre’s shoes and be a little bit more adult about it and just say, hey, man, this is what they want to do.” (The Game, 50:49)

  • Advocates for Chris Brown as a future Super Bowl headliner.

13. Quick Hitters & Fun Moments

• Timestamp: 71:32 – 73:59
  • Favorite album to play on repeat: Donnell Jones’ “Where I Want To Be”
  • Childhood crushes: “Candy from my hood … Nia Long, Tyra Banks in Higher Learning”
  • Favorite LA food spot: Stevie’s
  • Best NBA All-Star memory: Vince Carter’s “arm in the rim” dunk (72:39)
  • Dream guest for the show: Kendrick Lamar, and jokes about trying to make it happen (73:28)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

On Legacy & Authenticity

“I'm in love with who I see in the mirror...I'm a wonderful human being, bro. I'm a wonderful father, wonderful, wonderful family member. I'm one of the greatest rappers that ever did it. And any rapper that says different, I'm gonna put him in a lyrical chokehold today, not tomorrow.”
— The Game (28:35)

On Streaming Fakes

“It’s a nigga in India right now, damn near ass naked withdrawals on with a thousand phones. … They just keep downloading. He over there listening, glowing, like, yeah, streaming the shit out this album.”
— The Game (56:16)

On The State of Hip Hop

“What you think about that now? …I used to love what I love about hip hop and then hate what I hated, but now I kind of just see it from everybody, through everybody’s lens, you know what I’m saying?... I stopped, like, just hating on certain aspects of hip hop just because it don’t...bend the block on my street every day don't mean that I, you know, I gotta, like, feel a certain way about it.”
— The Game (10:56)

On Respect Among Peers

“When you respected by your peers, it doesn’t really matter what the outside world has to say, because they don’t understand what it takes to get there to begin with.”
— Host (29:35)

On Confidence in His Craft

“If you can outwrap me, outwrap me, because I'm here. And I know that it's just not possible because I'm not gonna stop until I see, quote, unquote, blood, you know, on the microphone.”
— The Game (31:32)

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Segment Timestamps (Selected Highlights)

• [05:28] – The Game on fatherhood and transformed priorities.
• [08:07] – Health motivation after parental loss.
• [09:27] – Longevity and age in hip hop.
• [10:23] – Social media’s impact on hip hop, new school artists.
• [12:32] – Women in hip hop and the rise of “copycat” names.
• [22:08] – Hip hop media's lack of authenticity, critics without credentials.
• [28:35] – The Game on self-love and authenticity.
• [30:32] – The Game’s competitive stance against Kendrick.
• [36:13] – His creative process and “uncancelable” persona.
• [43:45] – Drake’s dominance and three-artist rivalry.
• [50:35] – Super Bowl halftime reflections and city pride.
• [56:16] – Streaming numbers and fake play inflation.
• [65:06] – LeBron’s longevity and basketball talk.
• [71:32] – Fast questions: favorite album, crush, food, All-Star moment.

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Final Thoughts

The interview reveals The Game’s maturity and contentment with his place in hip hop, even as he retains a sharp competitive edge. He’s open about his past mistakes, his current ambitions, and the ever-changing state of the culture. Though playfully combative, he expresses deep love for family, West Coast legacy, and the bonds formed through music and sport. Game remains fiercely authentic—unapologetic, reflective, and true to self.

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Transcript

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[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Do you play against Super Crip at all?

[The Game]

Absolutely. I played with Super Crip.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, yeah. David Hamilton. I need to holl at bro too. I showed my number, I hit him right?

[The Game]

They would, yeah, Dave bro. They would put this in the Compton Sentinel or a newspaper and say David Super Crip Hamilton.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Which is crazy.

[The Game]

The paper, the nickname made the paper bro. And and, and he went to college. Is calling super Super Crip for three like.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

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Yes indeed.

The guest here, second time around. He's actually a part of the just trained family now too. For those of you that don't know, we in the gym getting right, man. Just dropped two mixtapes. Documentary three on the way. Welcome to the show. Brother of the program gang.

[The Game]

Yes, sir.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What's up my boy?

[The Game]

Just happy to be here, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

We here, I mean we was just talking about kids. Let's pick up their dad. So you got 23, 18 and 15. What is and one and baby.

[The Game]

That's right.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Baby. Baby boy or girl? Baby boy. Baby boy. What is fatherhood? Cause someone said we had a picture for those who don't know, we had a young picture. The liability. 2021 the game.

Then it was the liability.

That nigga right there.

[The Game]

Yeah, that's 24 right there.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

And someone asked, kind of changed his mental and he said, you know, when his daughter Callie was born. But what is fatherhood? How do you feel like fatherhood has made you a better person and a better man?

[The Game]

You just, you know what it really does, right? It's like you gotta care about other people More than you care about yourself. That's number one. You know, you got these little people, and I know, you know, y' all like me, like, we gonna go, you know, all the way out behind ours. And so I look at life in a full spectrum, right? And I say, it's a lot of people violating people out here, right? And I come to that, you know, that fork in a row where I'm like, well, it couldn't be mine, right? So you see, when somebody run up on somebody's son or do this, I'll be like, man, it's gonna be over. So I, I like, literally, you know, when. From that age to even to this day, you know, we forties, man, we, we here. You know what I'm saying? We lived, you know, pretty, pretty long time. But like, I tell everybody on any camera as much as I can, like, if you play with mine, you're gonna play yourself all the way out. Because I'm going all the and in full what comes with my decision. But my decision was made when they was born. Like, it's it. And you know, where we from, man, you know, we had, you know, outlets, basketball and rap and all of that to pull us out, but we still who we are, you know? And then when we come into a point where we watching our kids grow and we looking around at the world how it is now, like every, Every day, you got. You got kids. You know what I'm saying? You got kids. I got kids. Every time my kids leave the house, you know, outside of the one year old, they go three different places. And so we, we entrust school programs and teachers and, you know, that, you know, that type of structure to watch our kids during the day. And we want it. We just want them back home safe at the end of the day. So it's like every day we, you know, throwing our children on the craft table out here into the world. So it's like minds, man, they all I got. You know what I'm saying? Not that I don't care about myself. I love myself, but I love myself even more because I gotta. I wanna be there to walk my daughter down the. My son, 23 years old, he still don't. He ain't no adult. Like, you know, I was in the streets.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

We was in the streets. They got a lot left life experience, because they wasn't out in the streets of teenagers.

[The Game]

They not outside at all. I remember my moms used to go to work at the post office, boy, and wouldn't. She'd leave at like midnight. And wouldn't come back home till 10am you know, that was like Monday through Saturday. So it's like we was just waking up eight years old, making the salami sandwiches and Spam and then hitting the block and be going outside. And she locked the door. You know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I'm coming back. That's what I'm saying. We couldn't be inside.

Outside.

You can't come in the house, man.

[The Game]

These days, man, you drive by a park, man, you see the corn lady, she out there, Dolo. You know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It's just.

[The Game]

It's just. It's a different vibe, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, what. What inspired you to get in shape? You've been back in the gym, fucking with boss and the rest of us.

[The Game]

You know what it is, man? It's my pops died from a heart attack in 2018, right? So that's number one. Like that is. That's my bloodline. That's, you know, my old man. So he died from a heart attack, 65 years old. My mom has, you know, a pacemaker that's keeping her going every. And, you know, she. She in the hospital now, and. And she about to get out of there. But those are my parents, right? So you look at, you know, my father died from, you know, cardio problems. My mom has, you know, a cardio history. And so me, as their direct link, their son, I gotta be intentional about, like, getting it in. So, you know, I'm in there before I got in there with you. I'm still. Every day, I'm. I'm three to five miles. Just, just whether I'm walking or running, I'm doing something, I'm keeping it moving. Cause my grandm. Before she passed, like, you know, when you stop moving, your body think you chilling. It's over. Exactly. So it's like that. So, I mean, you know, as we. And you know, we athletes, I ain't as good as your. Well, I am.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

But we've been there. We've been there.

We've been there.

[The Game]

Yeah, man. But you know, you know, these days we gotta really. We gotta really look in the mirror and get adapted to where we are now in life. And we gotta make those. Make changes. You know what I'm saying? So this is where we at.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

First day you start decided to rap, and now you picture yourself still rapping and you still where you at 20 years later.

[The Game]

When I was young, man, I was just talking shit. I thought I would. I thought I would be. I never thought I would get old. You Know what I'm saying? Like, I was just young and I was going crazy. I remember when I came in, second album, I was like, you know, I'm 26. So is the dubs, you know, you still rapping? You 38?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Ugh.

[The Game]

You know what I'm saying? I'm 46, you know what I'm saying? I'M 8 past the shit talking, so it's like. But you know what, man? You know what makes it cool these days is to see, you know, the clips. I think Malice might be like 52 and Pusha like 48 or something like that. You know, whenever HOV or NAS drop projects, they both, they. Yeah, bun, they both 50. So it's like guys that could really do it are still doing this. So, you know, as long as it's open season on a skill set being, you know, top tier, I feel like everybody should do it.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

The state of hip hop, you know, I know me, I look at things a lot of different ways and, you know, even when I came out here, when I was with Loon during the George Floyd time, man, you had a chance to talk on the phone about some stuff. But the state of hip hop with the social media and how a lot of stuff is fake, you know, it's a lot of outlets that's giving false information the wrong information. And it's kind of putting a bad image on hip hop where it's not about, you know, being a lyricist and your craft no more. It's about all the bullshit that's involving it with getting famous in hip hop. What you think about that now?

[The Game]

I used to love what I love about hip hop and then hate what I hated, but now I kind of just see it from everybody, through everybody's lens, you know what I'm saying? It's like, I think my favorite new artist is probably NBA youngboy. And I don't listen to him all day. But I love that a nigga like that, as young as he is, got the fan base that he got because he is like Tupac to these little y ins, you know what I'm saying? You can't tell them nothing because when Tupac died, they wasn't even born. So they don't understand. They don't understand it how we understand it. So if I'm gonna coexist, you know, with these young cats, I gotta like walk in they shoes a little bit, you know what I'm saying? And if I run into them, then I'm gonna bring them up to speed on where I'm at. And how to have longevity in this shit. But I stopped, like, just hating on certain aspects of hip hop just because it don't, you know, just because hip hop don't bend the block on my street every day don't mean that I, you know, I gotta, like, feel a certain way about it. So I'm just embracing everybody and everything. I've just seen this post on Instagram where it was like. Like, I think Kendrick's Tour was like 300 and something million, and Drake's tour was like 300 something million. And Usher was 300 something million, and Breezy was 300 something million. And then Michael Jackson was like, on the second row at like 165 million, you know, gross. Like, you know, income. And I was just like, it still. It's still money out there to be gotten. Brought these. These dudes is like breaking Mike's records. And, you know, you know, Michael Jackson is to. It ain't no. No bigger than that. So, I mean, if you can surpass anything that Mike has done, you know, I think it's all right.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Shout out my three favorite with the rapper Rhapsody and Lauryn Hill. Talk about feminism and hip hop.

[The Game]

Yeah, feminism and hip hop. It's just funny, man, because, you know, we came up, it was like, you know, Missy and like, even when I was younger, MC Light and Queen Latifah and Foxy Brown, Lil Kim. And we. We had the Moni Love. Yeah, Mony Love, for sure. We had our boss lady of rage, you know what I'm saying? We had these rappers, but we could count them on two hands, you know what I'm saying? Now they everywhere, but I think every

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

dog, it's a dog something.

[The Game]

Hey, yo, hey. It's dolls.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It's little dog White, right Dog, Dark doll, Soft dog, Kitty dog, pit bull dog Doll, Doll, baby doll. It's a doll, everything.

[The Game]

You know what I wish, though? I wish it was a little bit more original myself something. But again, we. We just talked about. You just talked about, you know, this generation, like, they see and they just kind of like, you know, steal the car that way. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, okay, he's Lil Wayne. Well, I'm gonna be Lil Baby. And you know, not, you know, not, you know, shooting at nobody. But, I mean, it's just like, if it ain't broke shit, you know, don't try to fix it.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, but that's the thing, what you just said, I like about NBA youngboy. He authentic. He by himself. He ain't Trying to be like nobody. He ain't trying to fit in with nobody. And I think that's why he having a success, bro. Cause he's so authentic.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

In the world of copycats.

[The Game]

And if you look at it, you know, you know, on a wide scale, man, he been through some shit. You know what I'm saying? He got some kids, too. We all talked about our kid. I think NBA youngboy might got all three of us be combined.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He do.

[The Game]

But, you know. But my. He. That's like my pops. My pops was. I'm like the. I'm like somewhere in the middle, upper half of, like, 18 children, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people don't know that.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Rolling Stone too, huh?

[The Game]

Rolling. He was, boy. That. It was a dirt rock. Boy wasn't rolling. He wasn't rolling, boy picked up more dirt as he went, man. But, yeah, man, so it's like, you know, when I see the, you know, Nick Cannons and the NBA young boys, Stepon Diggs and all of that. Yeah. I just be feeling like, yeah, I could just keep on going, man. As a man, it's easy. But where I gotta be better at. We gotta be better at as men is you gotta have conversation with your woman or these women and get out in front of, you know, the bullshit and let them know, hey, I just wanna, you know, you know, put the seed in you. And I'm trying to, like, make sure that, you know, my legacy is spread out. So if you come to some type of agreement, you know, which I'm sure Nick Cannon has, I see how Nick Cannon. 10 places on Christmas, boy. With elaborate photo shoots. No problem. Clean. So it's like, yeah, what we got? And I think, you know, for both men and women, you know, in relationships, whether it's serious or whether it's platonic or whether it's like, just chill, you know, we just, like, sneaky linking, whatever. You just kind of gotta get in front of it, man. I remember how bad. Lying to people really, or lying to women really hurt. And then I understood, you know, as I got older, like, if you just tell the truth, you know, your girl might be under a little bit more understanding, man. So it's like, yeah, we gotta be.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

We had a deep dive on this with Kirk Franklin, Me, Him, Dog, and who was it? Dion Cole.

[The Game]

Yeah, Dion Cole.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Just having that conversation and. Big boy.

[The Game]

Big boy.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah. How was that? I never talked to you about it.

That was dope. That was a dope conversation. I liked it. Yeah.

[The Game]

I can't be around Kirk Franklin without singing Stomp in my head. So that's what I was doing. I was trying to talk and then like, come on,

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I'm the same way, nigga.

[The Game]

But yeah, hey, Kirk is a wonderful, wonderful human being, man. Even for getting us together. I felt like I watched a lot of them, you know what I'm saying? A lot of those, you know, his shows, ours hit a little different, you know, and I just felt like I was surrounded by the realest of the realest. And we had a good chat, man. Hey, and that food, food was fire. I ate like, yeah, I was about

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

to suck my dude over here. Fucking food. He just had a chef there cooking. Why were you talking, man?

[The Game]

Fire.

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[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

you know, like the state of hip hop. But Internet trolls, like, it's a lot of people that have a lot of say so in hip hop that don't even rap right. You know what I'm saying? You got guys like academics who say things and spew things between rappers, but at the end of the day, you're not even a rapper, you know what I'm saying? And it's a lot of people that have opinion that's not proven. They haven't really done nothing. What you think about so many people having opinions in hip hop and they haven't done nothing in hip hop to warrant that opinion?

[The Game]

I think, you know, sometimes I just think that it's a goofy time. Like they don't. A lot of this shit ain't built on principle and they don't have to be built on principle. So again, before I get to slandering anybody, I just gotta understand what it is. If you understand what it is, man, and you look at it and you be like, you know, like move around.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Everybody can't be silent.

[The Game]

Yeah. But then, you know, you know, for academics or anybody else in media that is, you know, doing that kind of like cognitive reporting and not really, you know, raised on super street principles. You just gotta like know that shit one day somebody might not be with on the bullshit that you own. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, what's in your ex? That's what I'm saying. So it's like, and it ain't even just him. It's a lot of that going around and it's a lot of clout thing. I guess that's how you climb the social ladder today. Today. But it's. I mean, I know for sure it's still Niggas out there that will run into you and run you over. So, I mean, again, I'm not here to tell nobody what to do. I'm just like, you know, a lot of them know not to play with because it's like, you know, I'm not saying I'm, you know, Debo or Incredible

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Hulk, but when I like it.

[The Game]

But when I see you, we're going to address it. Because I lose sleep over not standing 10 on how I feel. I'm not doing it. That's not how I raise my kids. And they not, they not, they not. I raised my, my sons to be stand up men. But like all the, you know, all the, and all the street or whatever, I just tell them to call me, me if you. I told, you know, my middle son is the most like me. But I tell him, bro, you don't engage in road rage. You know what I'm saying? You be patient with that. If you feel like somebody is, you know, on you and you feel like you don't like the situation, you feel any type of energy off, just call me, bro, I'll pull right up on you. We're gonna get to it. You know what I'm saying? You can go on and push off. So it's like, yeah, with me, just don't play with me. I'm not gonna play with you like that. I'm not from that era. And a lot of people say, oh man, you're almost 50 years old. I don't, I could be 80. I' ma see you about the bro. And that's just how it is. That's how I was raised by my uncle, my daddy, my, even my mama, my mama, anybody to know my mama. My mama's well known all throughout la, man. Especially, you know, growing up and being from Hoover and being tied in the streets and being a club promoter and owning clubs and different stuff. Like my mama, I watched my mama down there try to blow my daddy face off broad day. So it's like, I'm not. My family. Don't play no games.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Basically what we're saying to y' all out there is do your homework before you report shit and stop worrying about being first and being wrong. Yeah, get your shit right, fam. Was hip hop media better, better back in the day than it is now, you know, like we had the Source magazine and all that type of stuff.

[The Game]

Because I, I was looking, you know, you would get it and you would be like, who got five mics right now?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

And then when I came in, I Was like, I want. I want my five mics. And I don't know if I ever got five. I might have got four and a half, but I think I would have got five if I wasn't beefing with the owners of the magazine. So that was like. It's like always some crazy shit going on with me, bro. And I look back on it and I just be like, why, little bro? Like, you know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

When was that, though? And not to cut you off because I think as athletes, like, we're always in it, so you don't have time to kind of survey and understand what you do. But when you kind of step back now you're at an age now where you're not as rapping as much as you were when you were younger, at what point did you kind of start looking back like, damn, that was wild. Why I do that?

[The Game]

Or damn, when I think about. When I think about how much. How much money I missed out on, and I think about how many corporate opportunities that I missed out on because I just couldn't shut the fuck up about some gangster shit, you know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, man, I love where I'm at right now and I'm not rightin a lot of those wrongs. But I feel like I'm walking into these rooms now and, you know, I'm mid-40s and I'm well spoken, well dressed, and I'm sitting down with the guys that really, you know what I'm saying, put them yachts on that water and we having bigger conversations about bigger things. So in the next two, three years with me, you're gonna start seeing me kind of get what's owed to me.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It's funny too, because me and my homies talk if we're talking skill set. To me, you're one of the greatest that ever did it. But I don't think you in. And this is my question to you, is it? Do you feel like you don't get the respect or the love because of maybe the way you've acted towards certain people or in certain situations?

Today, Today, the top three alive. He topped three Alive today.

[The Game]

I feel like. And I appreciate you for that, but it's like, you know, I grew up, you know, doing both. You know, my hoop dreams didn't lead me to where Tysons and BD and Gills did. And those are niggas I came up hooping with. So it's like when it come to basketball, they'll tell you off, Chuck Is, you know, he wanted him ones, but he would just fight, get throughout the game. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. But, you know, y', all, you know, you guys, like, made it to that level. And I tell people all the time, bro, people compare. Like, say I watch people, like, try to slander your game or your game or say, you could have did this. I'm like, dog, you don't know who you talking to when it comes to these basketball players. You know what I'm saying? And so it's the same thing. Fans are fickle. And they gonna say they gonna do, like, you know, like we said the Internet, they gonna follow suit, right? They see the first comment, and they want to be funny, you know, with that shit. But I guarantee you, right? And I say this on all these cameras, a lot of them, y' all getting real money. There's like four cameras now. Now y' all got, like, 12. All the smoke, baby. But, yeah, every rapper, right alive, every rapper alive, that's one of them guys will tell you that I'm not to be fucked with. And you can start at the top. You can go from hov down the dot. You can call Drake. You could talk to J. Cole. You could talk to anybody, bro. You can ask NBA YoungBoy if you want to go that low. I cannot be with when I'm serious, bro. And anybody knows that. Does my. Does the antics get. Get in the way of my skill set? Of course. But. But I'm a jokester. A lot of people take it, you know, too serious. Like, I'm a comedian as well. We joke all the time. You know what I'm saying? But I think that people don't know how to. You know, it might be my fault. I don't give them an opportunity to differentiate the two. But the thing about that is, I don't give a shit about that. Like, I wake up in the mirror, and, like, I'm gonna tell y', all, both of y' all my brothers, man. I'm gonna tell y'.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

All.

[The Game]

I'm gonna be 100% transparent. I wake up in the mirror, bro. I'm in love with who I see in America. That's important, and that's it. And it don't go no further than that. So it ain't a on earth that could tell me nothing about me. You know what I'm saying? I don't let my mama do it. I don't let my kids do it. I don't let my girl do it. I don't let Nobody tell me about me, man. You can make a suggestion, but you're not gonna walk me down out of my. You know, out of my. You know, the steps. I got to be here, bro. I'm a wonderful human being, bro. I'm a wonderful father, wonderful, wonderful family member. I'm one of the greatest rappers that ever did it. And any rapper that says different, I'm gonna put him in a lyrical chokehold today, not tomorrow. We ain't backing out. We ain't doing none of that. Hey, hey, but you notice, look, I'm both of y'. All. When do the rappers say I'm not who I am? Any of them. Any of them. Hov ain't gonna tell you that, bro. That's the top of the top when we talking about somebody who's acclimated, like, you know his name on that level.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

And that's the thing, too. I mean, to. To kind of cross it over to basketball with me and him, obviously, the accolades and all the all star appearances he could have got for shit. But when you respected by your peers, it doesn't really matter what the outside world has to say, because they don't understand what it takes to get there to begin with.

[The Game]

And I seen Kobe talk about both of y'. All. You know what I'm saying? And that's, you know, one of the things.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It don't get no better than that to me.

[The Game]

Yeah, I seen Kobe out his mouth, talk about both of y'.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

All don't get no better.

[The Game]

And so for me, I. I seen hov out his mouth, talk about me. Hov dissed me, and I'm still here. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, man, I love rap. I love sports. I love entertainment. I love anything that elevates my people as a whole or gives us opportunity to be better humans, man. And, like, we started. Fatherhood is at the top of that list.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Dissect this line for us from whatever on Gangsta Grizz. If I ain't the best rapper from Compton, it's gotta be Kendrick. And if Kendrick is the best rapper, tell him step up and end it.

[The Game]

Yeah. So basically, it just goes back two minutes to what we was just talking about. Like, if I'm. If I'm not the best, number one, let's get this out the way. If you don't think you're the best at what you do, why are you doing it? Why are you doing it? Who are you? And I would never. If I was Matt Barnes and I'm on the Court with Kobe, it's no way I'm telling Kobe he's better than me. Letting him think that he's better than me. I'm not gonna go home and look my sons in the eye and be like, yeah, Kobe's just better than your dad. Like, who does that, bro? What type of man does that? So, number one, Kendrick came up, right? I embraced him when he came up. I helped him and Top Dog get into a better position, whether it was, you know, like, I'm not taking responsibility for their rise. Like, Top Dog really grinded it. Top Dog Entertainment out. Kendrick really wanted to be where he is today, and I. I knew he would get there. I was just a helping hand, right? You know what I'm saying? But so all I'm saying is that I'm the best rapper from Compton. You know what I'm saying? And if I'm not, show me. Just bar with me. I'm your bro. Just spar with me. You know what I'm saying? But it's like I said, no rapper. And I'm not threatening nobody or saying nothing. I'm saying, if it's about rap, I'll see and beat you up. Like, it's just. And I'm not talking about Kendra. I'm talking about everybody on a broad scale. It's just like, if you can outwrap me, outwrap me, because I'm here. And I know that it's just not possible because I'm not gonna stop until I see, quote, unquote, blood, you know, on the microphone.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

People are scared of confidence. I think a lot of people are so not, you know, just don't have confidence in themselves. When they see somebody with confidence, it's like. Like it offends them.

[The Game]

Right.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You know what I mean? And, you know, I. I see that a lot. And you just being yourself. You know what I mean? And that sucks, because the people that don't have confidence, they be the main ones talking about you, and they can't do what you do. You know what I'm saying? And it's just so many people. There's so many people that's. That haven't achieved their goals than people that have achieved their goals. So they sit around and just point fingers on.

Let all their insecurities on you.

Exactly.

Because they can't do it. They feel you can't do it.

Exactly.

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Exactly.

[The Game]

And that's everything. You know what? That's what. That's what the Internet comments section is. It's somebody in the matter in the bottom of their mama basement who can't climb up the stairs and let the sun shine on them or be great. And so, you know, they try their best to tear you down. So it's on you if you want to go down there. And with them and I around down

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

there every once in a while, I

[The Game]

ain't gonna lie, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I play with y'.

[The Game]

All.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I start thinking about brand. Like, when I'm choosing my words, or it says, you may want to edit this. I'm like, all right, I'm ed Yeah,

[The Game]

that's when you know yeah, that's when you know that. Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

IG Smack your told me when you get mad Jack don't press S so I a. I don't even around me.

[The Game]

When I get hit with that message, I start changing characters. I turn. I turn the eye into an exclamation.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I'm talking about. You put an exclamation point instead of an I. A dollar stick instead of an S. Like, there's ways to get around this shit, but you really gotta. You gotta build it.

[The Game]

You gotta be convicted.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yes.

[The Game]

You get to change your characters. You serious about your shit?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You wanna get that shit off?

Give me your three favorite songs from Kendrick.

[The Game]

Oh, man, you know what? We gonna be all right when that comes on, man. I feel like.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I like that, too.

[The Game]

I feel like the ancestors is having a seance. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like. Yeah, like, you know, get up. It will be that. I like. I like Dodger Blue. Yeah, that put me in. That gives me everything that I need about la. And then, let me see a third one. I like a good Luther vibe, man. That's right. Cause I'm just speaking for right now. Yeah, man. Sza good at what she do, man. That song just. It's an amazing song, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Mixtape, Gangsta grills. You took it back on him. Steezy. A deluxe project. Steezy's in the building. What role did Mike and Keys have been playing on west coast hip hop? Man, y' all got Rider in Easy Ryder.

[The Game]

Yo, come on, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Man,

you know the gangsters be around us, man.

[The Game]

I look like that's my dog. Yeah, man, Max.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Supposed to be a Max. Missed two flights.

[The Game]

Hey, yo, I'mma tell y' all something real quick. Quick. Hey, man, when you came. When you came into the league, bro, and he start going off, bro, he. It was like Junior Rider. That's when I started making people call me jt. You know what I'm saying? I just wanted. I wanted, like, two initials. When I was on the court. I swear to God, bro. I went through some motion, man. It's just funny how your. How your idols be, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It just.

[The Game]

Oh, man, that's dope, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

We all grew up watching and turned up to be our homeboy, man.

Our brother's Crazy Max.

Yeah.

Oh, Max. Anyway, Gangster Grills deluxe project went into. What was your thought process behind the mixtape?

[The Game]

Yeah, so the mixtape, man, I'll be in there with Mike and Keys, and they be pissed off at me, man. They be like, yo, when you gonna. You know, when you gonna call game time on this album, bro? We been had it. And I'm like, man, I'm gonna just keep recording. Cause something happens when I get deep into, like, a classic vibe when creating albums. And I really, really got a lot of love and adoration for my. My legacy and what it means to me. I come from, you know, the same place y' all come from, music where we had the CD book and I would put all my Jay Z's on on one page and all my nas on one page and do it like that. So it's like, when I think about, you know, all of my albums and my projects, man, the ones that are really classic, they gotta be able to go next to the, you know, the previous one.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

If I restore my life.

[The Game]

Come on, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

If I could take away the pain, the past, man, that's my shout out, Marsha and brochures, man. Y' all look crazy.

[The Game]

Yeah, so the mixtape. We did the mixtape in a few days, man, and we just threw it out because my fans, bro, they, you know, they. They tough on me. They want the, you know, the documentary 3 Now. And I just need a little bit more time, man. So I just put out a mixtape and then they start banging on me again like, yeah, we loving this.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I ain't banging on you yet. I'll give you a couple more months. Yeah, I'm still riding today. I'm still riding it Summertime. I'm still riding it at it.

[The Game]

I promise you, man, I'm not gonna let nobody down with this next album, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Where have you. Obviously, to survive in this game, you have to grow. Where do you feel like you've grown the most lyrically in music?

[The Game]

I think the pockets that I'm in, the way that I'm able to get in and out of these pockets on beats now, it's like you got a lot of rappers, right? And not to taint what they do, but you got a lot of rappers that sound exactly how they're gonna Sound every single time you, bro. It ain't no beat I can't rap on. It ain't no style I can't go into and out of. And I mean, I can do everybody else, but everybody can't do me. And I guarantee you one thing, that. And anybody that knows me knows this. I'm the only nigga in hip hop that can say any fucking thing. And everybody just gonna be like, oh, that's game. I could say anything, bro. Anything. And it's gonna get chalked up. I can't be canceled or none of that, bro. I can say anything. But I'm not. But I can.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I'm past that. But I can still do it, though.

[The Game]

Yeah, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

DJ Drama being able to work with him, what was that experience, Drama.

[The Game]

Man, I always wanted a Drama tape. It's just one of those things, you know what I'm saying? I always wanted to sign JR Ryder Jersey. It's just. I got a bucket list. I got my bucket list, man. I got my bucket list. But, yeah, I always wanted to do a Drama tape. And it's funny. Cause sometimes you have friends in the industry and out the industry, but you never really get to work with them. And so me and Drama always said that if the opportunity presented itself before we were both done that, you know, we. We would get it in. So we did, man. And it's like, Drama ain't really dropping tapes every day, you know, he getting money from all other.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He been out the way for a minute too.

[The Game]

Yeah. Because he gets money.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Who'd he do? He December, a couple years ago. He December, right?

[The Game]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's not. He not doing a lot. So I was grateful that he was just open to it. And he. As soon as I sent it, you know, he did his thing and sent it back. Then I sent him another one. He was like, we going again? I'm like, yeah. And so he sent that back and, yeah, we just threw it out, man. And people. People love to mixtape.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, that's dope. So the documentary three is loading. When you sit here again and Jack kind of asks us, but 20 years ago, you dropped your first project.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What it would to think you're still here as a. As a rapper, as a man. You'd have been in a lot of shit, bro.

[The Game]

Yeah, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I mean, what do you. When you look back on those 20, what comes to mind?

[The Game]

Second time I've been asked this question. Like, I don't know. The last few years, when I was at. When I was young, man, I had My first son, right? And I loved him to death, man. And then I had my second son. I loved him to death, but I was coming outside every day trying to die. To be honest. Like, I just. I didn't care. I'm from. I'm from a family, and I'm from a neighborhood, and I'm from a city where the inevitable is that you die on this type of time. And so I really. It's hard for me to get people to understand the seriousness of what I'm saying when I'm. When I'm saying this shit. But I understand life in total, right? So I know that no one leaves here alive, right? So I didn't care at that time. I didn't care when it was Tuesday, Thursday, next week, I didn't care. And so I'm always going to go to the max. And it was like that with, you know, my siblings, my brothers. They knew, like, I got older brothers, you know what I'm saying? And, you know, they taught me the way. But once I came of age, everybody around the neighborhood knew. If you came to get me, it was like, it was lights out. It was serious. Cause I'm coming around there and I'm, like, ultimately tripping because I had lost one of my favorite siblings, which was my brother Javon when I was 13. He was 16. And from then, I was just like, oh, okay. People kill it. Like, this shit's serious. Y' all taking from me. I want to take something back. And that's just the mentality of, you know, lost souls when you come from. Of, you know, the type of family dynamic where, you know, your mom is working and she ain't really there emotionally, but she. I had guest jeans and Jordans, but my mom wasn't with the I love you every single day. But my dad told me, I love you every single day. But it was behind the glass, you know what I'm saying, in the pen. So it's like, I didn't. And my brothers was already, like, off in the streets. One was a crib, one was a blood. They was just running, you know, off and running with the gang, banging. So it's like I just. I fell into it, you know, I just rolled into it like how I was supposed to. I got tired of getting banged on and. And I'm from an era in Compton where I was. I can remember vividly walking to school in the second grade. This is seven years old. And a. That was like, 19 is like, where you from, little. And I'd be like, you. I'm from da da da da. Like literally that's how I used to be. And I used to walk a mile to school with my, with my 5 year old son sister, bro. Like I'm from those times. I wouldn't Even let my 15 year old daughter walk right down the street in Santa Monica to school. You know what I'm saying? So it was just, it's just a different time, man. And people, you know, they'll watch this and they just don't understand the era we from, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You had to be there. Will the documentary three have any production from any big people you've worked with in the past or you know, what

[The Game]

I tapped into, you know, Timbaland and Swizz and Mike and Keys. They man two, they a dynamic duo, bro. They don't have. Have no type of. We just gonna do this ourselves. They just like, man, let's make the best album possible. And you know, they, you know, they did Nipsey's, you know, Grammy winning album and they just, they got. Nipsey just is putting out another album and they got, you know, production on there and then Problem, bro. Who is really the, the unspoken hero behind what we doing, man? It's just dope to be able to work with him. A lot of people don't know. The problem is one the of, of the most smart behind the scenes, in front of the scenes lyric. Lyrically, he's just dope, bro.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Get out there and hoop with us too.

[The Game]

Yeah, man. Yeah. He tried to pull me out there, man. I'm like, man, everybody, you know, he ain't nasty.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He's literally getting old. That's it. Them two things don't work together.

Yeah,

[The Game]

little and old.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Be in the gym in the four in the morning though. Getting it in.

So Drake is Drake still the most powerful artist in hip hop?

[The Game]

I feel like Drake is the most powerful artist in hip hop. The reason being, and it's not to knock anything that Kendrick did. I think Kendrick is doing amazing, bro. Like, he just toppled Jay Z for the most Grammys. That is a fake that nobody else, obviously nobody else has been able to do. To have 26 Grammys, crazy is a serious accolade. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, but Drake, I mean, I feel like Drake, you can't lose, bro. He broke Beatles records, Michael Jackson, he been Drake for I don't know, I don't know how long, man. Women love him. We gonna ride to it. Cause it's smooth. And so I'm anticipating that album. Like I just anticipated Cole. I'm anticipating what Kendrick does next. I think Baby Keem bout to drop. I'm gonna run jog to that review that I'm just I think hip hop is dope and I and there was never a point where I thought that if J. Cole saw Kendrick, they would square up. Or if Kendrick saw Drake, they would square up. Or if Drake saw J. Cole, they would square up. So I was just really in tune with the hip hop aspect of it. I wanted everybody to spar it out cause you want to see, you know, if that's the big three, I want to see y' all big three it out. You know what I'm saying? So I was a little hurt when Cole backed out, but then he put out the album.

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[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You did a breakdown on your ig not too long. Have you been doing that for a minute?

[The Game]

Just kind of like Cole's album is the first time I ever did that publicly. But I think that's something.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I've been doing it though.

[The Game]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been doing. I do it. I do it the same way. I listen as a fan, I listen as a hater and then I listen as the game. And that's the only way that yeah, that's the only way that I'm gonna

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

be able to Some of you niggas out here can't admit that hater side. Yeah, you right. That's the side you lead with.

[The Game]

Yeah, yeah, but see, a lot of people just listen to it one way. Fans listen to it as a fan, so they gonna dick ride all the way. I'll tell you, it's no flaws. A hater gonna be like, ah, that shit trash. They gonna listen to it all and call it trash no matter what they hear. You know what I'm saying? But when you're an artist, you know, you have a different. Different ear. You know, you have a different perspective. So I like to listen to it three times and then give it a break for a week and then come back one last fourth time just to make sure that I ain't do the wrong thing. So, yeah, man, I gave Cole's album a spin, and it's a lot of dope elements. Me personally, I would have put this there, move shit around. But, like, it ain't my fucking album. And he could do the same thing when I dropped the DOC 3. But it's just all like, you know, how you feel about your project. So it was dope to be able to do that for Cole. I think the next album I'm excited to do that for is Baby Keem and then Iceman. So I hope you know I want Drizzy to be his best. Drizzy.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I think I just got some type of feeling, man, that this Iceman finna be on one.

[The Game]

Well, he waiting, man. Yeah, man, got to.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

Yeah. He gotta go back to zero to 100 bags. Yeah. Shout out backwoods.

Yeah. Imagine you getting paid from backwards now, man.

Listen, man, all you gotta do is. All you gotta do is tell me you paying me and I got you.

[The Game]

Shout out King Palm.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Just tell me. Just tell me. I got you.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Shout out backwoods again.

[The Game]

King Paul. What's up with y'? All?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, talk to them. They gonna see you.

[The Game]

Yeah, those my guys, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

The super bowl backwood.

I'm smoking, by the way. These will get this money, J.R. these ones.

These ones.

Those right there.

These ones right here.

Yeah, those backwoods. Shout out them.

Ceezy. What you got over there? Ceezy? You might as well throw it on set.

[The Game]

You know one thing.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Look, is this the first time gracing the set?

Yeah, come on, man.

Is this the first time gracing the set? Yeah.

Shout out to Steezy all the smoke packs.

[The Game]

I ain't going to lie, man. Ste. Steezy seen the young game do what he do.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, yeah.

[The Game]

Come on, Steezy. You remember them boys pulled up what I pulled out.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What?

[The Game]

Yeah. Oh, Steezy was like

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

super bowl coming back to LA in 28. No, actually he's 27. Right. And reportedly Jay Z last year of his contract with the NFL. Obviously there was mixed feelings. I never, I don't know if I heard what you thought about it, but obviously you not being included in Dre's run a couple years ago.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What are your thoughts on that and has it changed at all? Because you also saw Wheezy didn't get a chance to perform in New Orleans. What is your thoughts kind of where that stands and what is your motivation coming into next Super Bowl?

That sucks. Let me say thought off, baby. That sucks.

[The Game]

I feel like, like Super Bowls and halftime performances in certain cities should represent. Represent for those artists who made those cities, you know, like pop on it. If we're talking about, you know, Jay Z running it. But I'm not Jay Z. And I had to put myself in his shoes. And then I had to put myself in Dre's shoes and be a little bit more adult about it and just say, hey, man, this is what they want to do. I feel like, you know, I feel like myself, yg, like a few others should have been included in that. But you know, Em was there not to slight him. You know, Queen Mary J was there not to slight her. And you know, of course dawg and Dre was there and Kendrick was there. And I feel, but I feel like it's la, you know what I'm saying? I know for sure that they're not gonna put, you know, if they do one in New York, you know, hov gonna be like, look, we gonna do Nas and Fat Joe and you know, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, man, I just, you know, at the end of the day, man, I just watched Bad Bunny do his thing. Oi, oi. You know, I heard a thousand oys and I, I appreciated it, man. So yeah, man, I'm just in the bag where, man, I'm. I'm enjoying my life and I'm watching other people enjoy theirs, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

If.

If you had a decision besides yourself, who would you like to see perform

[The Game]

here in the Super Bowl? Yeah, Chris Brown. Chris Brown. Who don't want to see a bat flipping light skinned nigga flying through the clouds, man? Like, it gotta be breezy, man. I wanna see Chris Brown. Cause we're talking about performers. I put him up there with Michael Jackson every single time, and people sometimes like, oh, he can never be Michael Jackson. Like, it's one of those people you said, though, nigga, you can't moonwalk telling Chris Brown what he can be. But Chris, he don't like the. He's like, I'm a fan of Michael and I appreciate it, but I'm Chris Brown and I love that, too. But for me, nigga, I ain't Chris Brown. And I love Michael Jackson. We all grew up to Mike, you know, he the king of pop. And then. And Chris gotta be like, right there with him, man. Because as far as performing, if you ever watch Chris Brown perform, right, and he in his mid-30s now, he's still doing them back flips and doing the same shit. And he can hold you. Yeah, and he can hoop. I ain't, you know, I ain't never seen Aaron hall do no motherfucker backflip, stupid. You know, I don't want no smoke. Big Dog.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

The Russell someone we had on the show a while ago, really behind the scenes, independent. It hustling built his audience. Just signed with Roc Nation, kind of changing the game in the streaming area. What do you thought? What have you liked about what you've seen him do? Not only on the music side, but on the business side.

[The Game]

I look at it like this. You can have your barbecue truck in the hood, right? Everybody know you got the fire barbecue. It's Stack Jack 5 barbecue. Everybody in the hood love the barbecue. And you come to a point where, you know, Walmart is like, hey, man, we want to carry your barbecue sauce. And you like, damn, I got to talk to my family about that. You notice we've been in my people. You go talk to your people, and they, like, excited for you and happy for you that you about to be in every hood and every Walmart. We gonna get the Stack 5 barbecue sauce from Walmart. But I live in Ohio and I'm not from where you from, man. I think go get it. I think he did enough grinding in his backyard. And he put on and showed you show other artists how to be independent. And I think that's worth something. And I think he went to get that.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Anybody know what type of deal or what type of.

I heard it's distribution, but I don't really know the intricacies of it. Yeah, well, because you remember the first time he said Jay came with some bullshit, you know what I mean? Oh, no. Someone for all. I mean, Roc Nation came with some. So, you know, this time, I mean, he had all the power in the world because he had his analytics behind him.

[The Game]

And you talking about confidence, boy, you can't hey, you can't tell the Russell. He ain't Alby Shore. 93, right? That. Hey, L. Russell walk around like he got matte hair. Swear to God, he do. He walk around like he got mad hair. Kobe game and. And he tall as Giannis. You can't tell. Hey, you cannot tell the Russell. Then he came. When I first met the Russell, he's like, oh, what's up, Jason? I'm like, I'm the game. He didn't care nothing about that, bro. But, yeah, man, I love, bro. I love. I love, bro, man. I love what he doing, too.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Shout out to Russell, man. That's the homie.

Streaming number lawsuit. Are streaming numbers fake? Fake, then the fake.

[The Game]

That's why I don't get. I don't get excited. Yeah, you ain't got to scream me. We got to get like. Like what Cole doing with the physicals and getting out there with the fan. What was really hard is. Is the two fans that he let roll with him. You know what I'm saying? And. And when he pulled up in the. That's top tier, real hip hop. I love it, man. I was like, yo, I'm gonna have to bring that back. Pull up in the Impala, scoop, you know, Scoop. Scoop a couple bottles up and ride to the album. But, yeah, man, like, that. The strings, bro. I'm not. I would. And you know what? I was going for the cat for a minute. I was like, damn, these niggas screaming like a mother. And it got to a point where I was like, nah, this is ridiculous. There's no way that these guys are streaming like this, right? And they at the top of the game, and then other niggas just, like, really amazing. Ain't doing nowhere close to that. I was like, yeah, it's just the bag. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like the payola, but on a different scale because you could really kind of hide it behind these bots. And it's a nigga in India right now, damn near ass naked withdrawals on with a thousand phones. Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

And they just download.

[The Game]

Watching them shits, they just keep downloading. He over there listening, Glowing, like, yeah, streaming the. Out this album. Yeah, but no, that Cap, bro.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

So Apple music just wiped 2 million streams.

Billion.

2 billion streams. Excuse me. That turned out to be fake, which is crazy. That's a lot of. That's a lot of artists we know and listen to. That was Cap.

[The Game]

Yeah, it's. Yeah, I seen it, man. And I was like, you know, it's one of the things where you know. Remember when Jordan hit Byron Russell ass at the free throw line? I was like, I got on my knees like you bitch ass niggas, like they taking y' all shit. Yeah, but that's what you get, man. You can't. You shouldn't. I mean, you can, but it's like you shouldn't cheat this shit, man. You know what I'm saying? Like, if it's only, you know, you're

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

not good if you got it cheated.

[The Game]

That's ass. I can't lay down at night and feel good about it about that. You know what I'm saying? I ain't never wanted. When I had the cheat code to Mike Tyson punch out. But that's the only time.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

Oh, in contra. Up down, up down. Left, right, left, right. Ba select. Start. Boy was in there.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What's that, 30 men?

[The Game]

Hey, I don't care. Close the door, mama. You want food? Nah. Yeah, but yeah, other than that, man, like, you know, cheating on a high level, you know, that is what whack, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

AI and music. AI artists.

[The Game]

Hey, before we get to that, let me ask y' all a question.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, I knew it was coming.

[The Game]

How. Yeah. How y' all feel about being college athletes and going through the struggle and then getting these nil deals in. In college before they even hit the game, man. And then. So then when they get drafted, it's kind. You know, these kids these days, bro, they.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

They take their foot off the gas. Yeah, Yeah. I think Jack went to the league, straight to the league. But. But, you know, I mean, I was an all American in two sports. And I couldn't imagine what kind of money I used to get.

[The Game]

The.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Me and Ray used to get the 2500 Pell Grant. You couldn't tell us shit. That shit was gone in three days. Two days in the Westwood. But I just feel like it, you know. And I'm not mad cause we've always wanted players to get money. But to me, when you're getting these 500 or 250, 500amillion, couple million, like it's only natural to take your foot off the gas at a young age, like. Cause pros take their foot off the gas when they get paid. So to me, it's just like. I just wish more shit would come with that money. More education, more struct future, more understanding of, yeah, whatever. You get half of that is owed back next year. I just think that it's too much of the Wild west. But I don't have as Much issue with the money as I do with the age of these that are trying to play college basketball. You think a 26 year old, 26, 27 years old.

They went something else to do my.

But they went pro and now they're trying to come back to college. And they're saying that because you have sons. Yeah, I'm saying that because I have sons. But it's just. I don't want to see. No. If I want to see a 27 year old that could barely play, I'll go to the to pick up play pick up basketball at LA Fitness.

I'll go watch the NBA. 27 years in the NBA. It shouldn't be in college.

[The Game]

It's funny you reminded me but how I feel to go from down the block to the NBA, man. Cause you because you remember they. They had it and then they cut that out. It was one pissed me off. When I drafted to the Pistons. I knew that was Cor.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

What he was. He was tough in high school though, bro.

[The Game]

That's cool. Cool, but that. I saw that on the Pistons, bro. And I hey, I don't want no smoke, bro. That man. I was like yo bro, this. They gotta cut this out.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

We just talked about him the other night.

[The Game]

Stop this.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Look, not just him.

[The Game]

You was just in science class. Now you in the NBA. How that feel?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, I mean it's. It's a. You can't really explain it, you know what I'm saying? It's like 0 to 100.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You know what I'm saying? You do a lot of up up, you know what I'm saying? You do a lot of up and learning from experience, you know what I'm saying? That's. That's the bad part of it. Getting the money and your life changing. That's the good part. You know what I'm saying? You get to buy everything, change everybody life. But you do a lot of up and all the up only you got to try to fix.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

When there's all the up and there and all. And as you come to the rock bottom, ain't nobody around but you. That's the up part. You know what I'm saying? But the being able to have be in that position is the blessing. Blessing. So if you don't take advantage of it, that's on you. Five did still live.

[The Game]

If I want him, he got game head ass. Jesus.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

This just spoke itself in third person. This said five did.

Five did.

Hey, five did. Five did.

But you know what I'm saying.

You still hooping it off.

[The Game]

I throw the three up five.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

That mean no.

[The Game]

That mean no. That means no. That means no. Still hooping.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He going rebound, throw out the way. All kind of.

[The Game]

Hey, man, it's cuz I get mad too much, man. You know what I'm saying? I like. I'm like. I'm like J R spre to this. I be up over some say JR Spre. Hey, bro, I tell you one thing. Hey, this. Where Ray at? Right here.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

Hey, this Ray, bro. We. Hey, we're at. We're at. I don't know. I think we're Dominguez, bro. This Ray set a P number one, Ray pretty boy as far as as this come through the gym. Same ways he got now. Light hair. This, this got the Cortez on with

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

the hand one trying to work bow leggings.

[The Game]

Everybody know Ray Young coming in. Ray Young. Ray Young coming in and I'm tying my little up. I'm over here. You know what I'm saying? Me and Coach Young, we had Fremont, Daryl and all them. This Ray we play. We get in the game, bro. This Ray, he must have had like 48 or something. But we. I come off off. I come off a screen for three, dog. This Ray punched me in the nuts, bro. Like this. I never. I never. I never talked to you about that. He. This. This was dirty, bro. I never got hit like that in my life. Hey, bro, I came off a pick. Ray was like this. I said, nobody is gonna believe this just did this. I was out of there. But nah, Ray, Ray. One of the best basketball players in Los Angeles history. I tell him every time, but that.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You said it last time on the show, bro.

[The Game]

This come fresh as white teeth. That was the pro club king with the shorts with the match. Swear to God.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Pro club.

They used to call him NBA Ray.

[The Game]

What?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Everybody was sh. Back then.

[The Game]

Ray Young man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

NBA Ray. You do you play against Super Crip at all?

[The Game]

Absolutely. I played with Super Crip.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

David Hamilton. I need to holl at bro too. I hit him.

[The Game]

They would. Yeah, Dave, bro. They would put the. This in the Compton Sentinel or a newspaper and say David Super Hamilton.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Which is crazy.

[The Game]

The paper, the nickname made the paper, bro. And, and. And he went to college. Is calling Super Super 3. Like what? And I'm playing Snoop Dogg, cuz sn Snoop made. I swear to God, bro.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Super.

[The Game]

But Dave is the only. Dave's the only nigga who like bomb on. You don't get kicked out the game. He just keep coming. This they ain't. They don't even foul this out, bro. He just did what he want. He's. He's one to deal with him and Lamar Gale, I remember that. Lamar Gale, one of them guys, man. But yeah, Super Crip Dave, Super Crip Hamilton, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Lakers, Lakers, Lakers. LeBron is. Is. It's. I think he set the bar so high that I think it's. It's hard for some fans and people who played against him to kind of see him age because he's finally showing his age, thoughts on him and just the state of the Lakers. Oh, yeah. Hold on. Who's that? Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Who was that? Step forward, please.

Step forward. Just show your face.

Just show your face. Cause you gonna get it anyway.

Come on. Who is it?

Come on, forward.

We got some cushions.

The longer you wait, the more cush ups we add to. So you guys just walk them on.

Just say how.

Come on, come on, come on.

Before we have.

Come on. Okay, you had 30. It was 25. You had 30.

It's Nate. Please tell me it's Nate.

Nah, it's not Nate.

Okay, we'll find out who it is. We have enough eyeballs. We ain't got a point.

You have 30 now, so you show your face. Push ups coming.

[The Game]

That was a little weak. Weak ring.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, I think I know who it was.

Who, Who? We just wave to us real quick.

Just wave.

Oh, she's. Oh, that's Monica.

[The Game]

Oh, yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, yeah. You're in trouble. No, it's okay.

35 push ups on the way, baby.

You didn't tell them the rules, baby. Yeah, so, baby, you got, baby, you got five of her cush ups. Monica, you got 10 cush ups. All right. Yeah.

Oh, nice job.

Nice job. State of the Lakers and state of

[The Game]

Braun the Lakers, man. You know What? Again, man, LeBron is LeBron 40 yet?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

23.

LeBron still gets triple double.

[The Game]

Come on, bro. LeBron's 40. 40, 41. I seen him. I just seen him bang on somebody. Like, he wasn't 41 like three days ago, bro. Or something like that, man. LeBron number one. It playing at that age. Incredible like that, man. Like, shut up. Everybody just shut up. And his son on the team, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, his kid is on the team with him, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, bring your dad to work day. Like, nigga, every day. Like, shut up. Like, LeBron is just LeBron, bro. I don't know how long bro gonna play, but he in his own lane, bro. He can stop when he want to, man. But it ain't like he ain't losing no steam as a player.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It's amazing to me when I watch him, I be like, God Damn, this nigga's 41 years old.

[The Game]

You know what the knees and shit do at 40?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

At my best day, on my best game with the best tape job, the new Jordans on, just feeling good. My tights, new, fresh cut, feeling good, feeling like I'm gonna get 40. He doing shit like that that I couldn't do on my best day, which is crazy, dog. And I played in the league. That's still amazing.

I just don't. I hate that we live in a day and age where. Where our superstars and our heroes can't age gracefully.

[The Game]

I watched Vince Carter age gracefully, you know what I'm saying? That's one of my favorite players all time, from North Carolina. And Rasheed Wallace. I remember when E40 was beefing with Rasheed Wallace, I was, what's the nigga's name? Wallace. Hey, yo. I was like, hey, yo, hey, Stack. I was like, I'm torn. I'm 40. Yeah, that was great. Crazy, man. But, yeah, man, I watched Vince age. Like, you know, Vince's hoop career reminds me and how he went out right on his own type of time. Remind me of Lennox Lewis, you know what I'm saying? Like, Linus Lewis ain't go out with dementia then can't remember his name. Like, he was just like, you know what?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

That's enough.

[The Game]

I'm done. Enough is enough. It's how Bud Crawford just kind of set it down.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Like, smart.

[The Game]

It ain't super smart, you know what I'm saying? But, yeah, man, Vince is one of those guys. LeBron, man. It's like, we talking about. About LeBron. LeBron. LeBron gang. Like, smart, dog, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

The gang.

Luca.

[The Game]

Luca, I like, yo, I like it. No, no, no, I like Luca. I just like Luca. I just. I was one of them. We don't.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

That ain't the question, Chuck. The question is, do you believe in the. Do you believe in Luca era? Do you believe in Luca, dog?

[The Game]

I believe the children are the future.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Teach them where.

[The Game]

I let him leave. Hey, I love Lucas, but I was one of those. I was one. I'm telling you. Hey, I was one of those who didn't feel like we needed Luca in la because the Lakers be doing some. Sometimes they be making moves we don't need to make. But I. I appreciate watching Luca do his thing, man. If. If anything, I like how he rolled up to the first game, man, in the old school with that.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Then back door to the Bugatti, you

[The Game]

know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He on one now.

I ain't giving.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You have a relationship with Elijah Arenas?

[The Game]

Yeah, man. That's my dog, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Happy to see him back on the court, man.

[The Game]

Yeah, my boy. My boy Trav, man, he put me with Elijah, and Elijah is a great talent, man. I just talked to him, like, a few days ago and not saying I didn't, you know, turn the tide for my young brother, but, no, I told him, man, I said, you got to relax and let the game come to you. I said, you just got there, you know, happy.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

He just happy to be back out.

[The Game]

And. And. And I like. I like to think a few of my words is, you know, while, you know, doing his thing.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

But I think it's dope for us to be able to be in a position where at any time, we can give each other's kids the game.

Mine don't want to hear from me.

That is.

Nah, nah.

We can say the same shit. And he could say it, and it'll register, you know what I mean? So to be able to have that kind of circle where Elijah can reach, you know, because I talked to him not too long ago, and to have a circle where that your father. That the fathers have built, where we can pour back into these kids whether there are kids or not, I think that's real important.

[The Game]

And then Gil, you know, Gil's one. Gil's special. I love him. That's my dog, man. But he, you know, he got super genius. Yeah, super genius.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

One of the smartest people you know, period, man.

[The Game]

And unapologetically him. Yeah, you know.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

This segment is brought to you by StockX, your trusted source for the most coveted drops.

We know you have a hell of a sneaker collection, my brother. What's your holy grails?

[The Game]

I think the black cat fours I'm sitting on, kind of. I look at them, and I really appreciate what they are. My phone posits collection is solid, super solid. You know what I'm saying? Paranormans is in there, you know, So I love them. I think that I'm starting to wear after 20 years, bro. And one of them is funny because I posted it. One of my air max fell apart when I was running in it because I hadn't ever wore my Air Max 95. So I ran. I went to just train in it. Then I ran down the street and coming apart. But, yeah, I'm starting to wear my Air Max 95s, man, after 20 years.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

So you've been holding on them that long, huh?

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You know what's funny? We got a stock X partnership, bro, and that was back when I couldn't afford, like, I was wearing payless shoes up until I got into high school. So we can never afford them. So I'm buying all the 95s, 96s and wearing the ass shout out StockX. We appreciate Y', all, man. Couldn't afford it then, but I can now.

[The Game]

Yeah, shout out StockX, man. I need some money, too. There you go.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Who got the best shoe in the NBA. And the wnba.

[The Game]

The wnba. Phew. Man, I think I seen. I don't know if it was Caitlin Clark or somebody got a Jordan that or a Jumpman that kind of looked fly. I like the Angel Reese joints too, the NBA, but, you know, unless you get a motherfucker 16, like, I can't do nothing with it. But the NBA, man. Like, it. It's. It's always going to be, you know, the J's, man. For me, man, I think. I think for me, you know, a good. A good 11, you know, do it for me. I can't hoop in the fours. I don't know, Mike. That's.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

But again, this is hooped in the fours, though.

[The Game]

I can't understand, bro. They do some. Them shits like grab you right, like on the top.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

It kept him on the ground, though. He wasn't really up in the air too much much with them fours. He'll give you a jab step. Footwork, though.

[The Game]

Yeah. And. And I know the deal is over, but I hooped in Curry's Under Armours before and had a good time.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

And you told to live about it.

[The Game]

You.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You. You lied to tell the story.

[The Game]

I think I. I think I might have jammed on Darrell Wright in the Drew and. And them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jelani. I still get underarms. You know what I'm saying?

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, Jelani.

[The Game]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

All right.

[The Game]

UCLA runs, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Them are legendary quick hitters. First thing to come to mind, let us know one album you can listen to on repeat.

[The Game]

Donnell Jones.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Where I Want to be, Where I Want to be.

[The Game]

Everybody know that.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Good call. That's a great call.

That's the first time someone said that, too.

That's a good call. Childhood crush.

[The Game]

Ah, Candy. She was cute, man. She was cute.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

From Escape?

[The Game]

Mm, no, from my hood. Oh, Caddy from your hood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you mean like, like a Ron Away catch right now.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

She got six kids, four baby daddies.

[The Game]

Hey, yo, she just got out too. Childhood crush. Nia Long. Tyra Banks in Higher Learning.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[The Game]

Deja, when that came. I love you, De. You was like, yeah, skinny with the big head. I think that's my type. But yeah, man, so them too.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Best undercover. Low key food spot in la.

[The Game]

Steven Stevie's. I don't know if it's undercover.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You putting me on something. What's that?

[The Game]

You ain't never had Stevie's. I got you, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, we gotta listen to your album in that and go get some. Stevie.

[The Game]

Yeah, man, for sure.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Best NBA All Star memory.

[The Game]

Vince.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Vince putting his arm.

[The Game]

Arm in the Ram chain. That. That was like. That was just one of them things, bro. It was like.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Like we didn't really understand what the. He did, though. Like.

[The Game]

Nah, I did it took the replay. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Yeah, nah, he did that, bro. It was. That was crazy, man. Oh, my other one, Brent Barry.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, yeah.

[The Game]

When Brent took off.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

When Brent took off in his warm

[The Game]

up jacket, it remind me of Billy Ho and White man can't jump.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah.

Yeah, he tried to.

[The Game]

I don't know what he did, but I. Yeah, I like. I like Bren Barry, man. He had a. On.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

On.

[The Game]

On live playing with the Clippers for. He wouldn't do none of that on the game.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You can jump. If you could see one guest on our show, who would it be? But you have to get your answer on the show.

[The Game]

I like to see a DOT interview on here, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Oh, that be dope.

So did you hear the second part of that question?

[The Game]

No.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

You have to help us get your answer on the show.

[The Game]

Oh, yeah, I'm in a pickle there.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

How about I say make sure you hit the second part of the question. I've been.

[The Game]

I know, I know, I know, I know. DOT is. You know, he might. My. He got a plug too.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

I've been tap dancing around top for a minute about it and then.

[The Game]

Yeah, but you know what, man? He. He. Yeah, like, I know him, right? He. He'll do it, man. Y'.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

All.

[The Game]

You know what I'm saying? It's. Y' all appreciate, but me, I'm. I'm still friends with Drake. Ain't, you know, impartial to my decisions.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Stupid.

I like them both. I ain't got nothing to do with it.

[The Game]

I'm the same as you, man. It's just like, you know, I can appreciate. I can appreciate both. Like I said, I've been there since Kendrick was a young pup. And the same for Drake. I was there when Drake came in, but Drake ain't. I just couldn't. I can't turn my back on nobody who I call and they just always there. Or I say the kids want to come to concert and they say Brent sent them all and shit like that. Fans want you to not be somebody friend or make it about the west coast or this or that. But you know, to me, like, nigga Dot went and did power and was on power when I. I was still hate hated 50 to death. I didn't feel like, oh, you wouldn't, you know, you did power. I don't 50 get a don't with 50. We from Compton. I don't feel like that. I don't have. I don't have that type of, you know, hate. So, yeah, it's just I, I with everybody, man. I like die. And Drake is my.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

So you got the deluxe mixtape out now. Documentary three coming summertime.

[The Game]

Probably before, man. Okay, probably before.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Okay, go listen to that. Yeah.

[The Game]

Quarter zips and matcha.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

Yeah, go listen to that. Go listen to that.

[The Game]

Come on, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

And then we gotta. We might have something cooking too. Stacked with bro. So we gonna talk about it after this.

Yes, sir.

Might be coming into the family. Do some work.

Do one for the one time.

[The Game]

Yeah, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

All right, man. That's a wrap, man. Best of luck, man. Appreciate you coming through.

[The Game]

Thank you, man.

[Interviewer/Host (possibly Jack or a co-host)]

The game. You can catch this on all The Smoke Productions, YouTube and the Draft Kings network. We'll see y' all next week.

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