Articles tagged "the game"

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E-40: The Ball Street Journal

by Jordan Sargent

[12.Feb.09] :. Legendary Bay Area rapper's eleventh album is 50% great and 50% an ill-fated attempt at pop. Sigh.

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The Game: LAX

by Jordan Sargent

[4.Sep.08] :. On his third album, rap's estranged headcase follows his first post-G-Unit album with one of 2008's most consistent rap full-lengths.

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The Game: Doctors Advocate

by Jeff Vrabel

[19.Nov.06] :. Dr. Dre appears nowhere on Doctor's Advocate, except in the title, the sonic influence of most of the beats and about 80 times in every track. Rarely, if ever, has a hip-hop record been so dedicated to an absentee who wasn't a corpse.

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News

Rap’s controversial Game offers a devilish ‘Advocate’

by Jim Farber [New York Daily News]

[15.Nov.06] :. He may have lost his connection to hip hop’s most potent producer (Dr. Dre), and scotched his association with one of the genre’s most powerful brands (the G-Unit of 50 Cent). But the...

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Film Review

Waist Deep (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jun.06] :. "Save our streets! Save our streets!" So pronounce the earnest demonstrators who appear at the start of Waist Deep, their placards raised high, their faces showing frustration.

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Books Review

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss

by Thomas Scott McKenzie

[7.Oct.05] :. The world's greatest pickup artists, who can have their pick of any female, damage their brotherhood over a woman.

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The Game: The Documentary

by Pierre Hamilton

[15.Feb.05] :. There is a saying in the hip-hop community that goes 'game recognizes game'. Backed by all-star rap cast, it's easy to see why he was handpicked to be the west coast's new Nigga Wit Attitude by the only man with the right to -- Dr. Dre.