"You make hit records and people love you. You don't make hit records and people hate you" the Game quips." If I made bricks, I`d give people their money back, but I'm just not good at making bricks, I tried to make "Hate It or Love It' a brick and you saw what happened with that". What happened is that it became one of the biggest hits of 2005, checking in at number 10 on Billboard's year-end Rap Songs chart and number 24 on the year-end Billboard Hot 100.
Few MC's can survive a character assassination from the entire rap crew, especially if the mob crew leader is 50 Cent. But the Game has bloodied his knuckles protecting his brand and his manhood while the G-Unit crew has done quite a bit to destroy his street credibility. From DJ Who Kid and 50 Cent depicting him dressed as a thong clad stripper on the G-Unit Radio part 21 ;"Hate It Or Love" Mix-ape to the Game's own brother denying the rapper's street credibility in the press, he has sustained. And since authenticity is hip hop's meal ticket it's been a dangerous game indeed.
Signed by DR Dre in 2002, the rapper has the life story publicists dream about. Born and raised in Dre's hometown of Compton, he left behind college basketball scholarships for gang life with his older brother. Then, in a fateful twist, the Game was shot on Oct. 1, 2001 during a robbery on his home. He spent his recovery time learning to rhyme and studying hip hop classics. Though the legend is that the Game had never rapped before 2001, Dre found him, coached him and pushed him to release The Documentary album in 2005 which sold more than 2.4 million copies.