The Game is quite busy lately. He’s currently busy raising a child (Harlem) and preparing for another one, King Justice, who is scheduled for birth at the end of April. He also has the streets buzzing with a new mixtape and he recently spoke to MTV on many issues.
On his new nickname:
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“I’m changing my street name: I’m killing Hurricane and I’m just gonna run with the Murda Game. Like I said, I talked to Nas at the “Hustlers” video shoot, and we was talking about his career and where he’s been, talking about [Nas’ aliases] Escobar and Nasty Nas. And I said, “I had heard some sh– from back in the day when you was Nasty Nas. It was the so raw, uncut, so street.” I was like, “I need one of them aliases.” He was like, “Well, if I’m Nasty Nas, then you Murda Game because you murder n—as.” That’s what it is: Out with the Hurricane, in with Murda Game. I got that from a don, man. A king gave me that, so I had to run with it.”
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On his relationship with Nas:
“The “Hustlers” video shoot was dope. You gonna see it real soon. I ain’t even got a lot to say about it except it’s dope. To be in the same space, same area, even to be a part of the same song as today’s hip-hop king, Nas, is real. That’s Mr. Illmatic, everybody knows Illmatic — my grandma knows what Illmatic is! To be in Cali shooting that video with Nas, and for him be as big a big brother as he has [been] to me in my career, was just dope…”Why You Hate the Game” is not definite, but it’s supposed to be my next single. If all goes right, we’re gonna shoot that in L.A. too. Me and Nas been talking, doing lot of polying lately. He’s one of the n—as in hip-hop that I really f— with, that I really have a lot of love for outside of hip-hop.”
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On50 claiming Buck is in the same space as Game:
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“When I heard that, I had to throw it on the mixtape. 50 saying he’s gonna kick Buck off of G-Unit, he’s on the same space as I am. I feel bad for Buck because I knew all this was gonna happen, and I tried to tell Buck this a long time ago…Me and Buck are still good. A lot of people thought in the “Body Bags” song, when I say that line, “F— the whole G-Unit, who lied to Buck?” that I’m dissing him. I’m not dissin’ Buck. I meant, why ain’t nobody tell him … why n—as don’t keep it real over there [at G-Unit]? Why you don’t tell your artists you not gonna take care of him, that you self-motivated? I’m just speaking on 50 Cent. All 50 cares about is himself, he don’t care about Buck, he don’t care about Yayo, he don’t care about Banks. He didn’t give a f— about me. [Former G-Unit Records president] Sha Money — him and Sha Money ain’t really talking. 50 says they cool but they ain’t really cool.I’m just saying, why n—as over there don’t keep it real? If you don’t f— with a n—a, just tell him. Let him know instead of making money off of him. I wasn’t dissin’ Buck — just shedding light on a situation I’m too familiar with.”
On his current position with Buck:
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“I talked to him over the phone. I let him know where we stand. We always was 100 and we always gonna be 100. If the waves get crossed and the communication lines get cut, we gotta do what we gotta do to stay eating and keep our families alive. If it’s beef, it’s beef; if it’s all love, it’s all love. We talked about our past issues and what we can do in the future to make sure we don’t cross paths on no enemy note. I think we pretty much got that figured out and wrapped up. But like I said, ain’t no beef with Buck. I was talking about the rest of the G-Unit and finishing off my mission to pretty much nip them in the bud — which I’ve done. All this whole “50 not wanting to work with G-Unit” and him not feeling Buck and him saying he don’t wanna do features [on G-Unit records] anymore, it’s all me. That’s my campaign. Them dudes is down, G-Unit is wrap. Don’t ever expect to hear anything from them in a collaborative effort in your lifetime.“
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On Yayo hitting Jimmy Henchman‘s son:
“I ain’t got too much to say about that situation. I hope Jimmy’s son is all right and I hope [Yayo] gets whatever he deserves from God and whatever else punishment he deserves. Hitting on kids ain’t cool. But you know, Jimmy is making all the right decisions. That whole thing they doing with Reverend Al Sharpton, instead of taking it to the streets, I think that’s the right way. You gotta take action against cats like that. You can’t let anybody get away with that. It’s a travesty that he would belittle himself to do that. It’s just not cool.”
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