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The Game is back in headlines this week after dissing Meek Mill and calling him a snitch, sparking an extended dorsum and forth — on Instagram and on wax — that is however ongoing. But the consequence with Meek is merely the latest in Game's long history of music-industry beefing, dating back to his early days as part of 50 Cent'southward One thousand-Unit crew. As the diss tracks keep flying and more than and more than people weigh in on the problems between Meek and Game, Billboard takes a look dorsum through a decade-plus of Game's hip-hop beefs.
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fifty Cent and G-Unit (Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Cadet, Spider Loc, Mobb Deep), 2005-Forever
Ironically, The Game'due south biggest and longest-running beef stemmed, at to the lowest degree initially, from his unwillingness to beefiness in the first place. When Game signed to Aftermath Amusement in 2003, so-Interscope main Jimmy Iovine placed the immature MC into l Cent'due south G-Unit camp, which at that fourth dimension was effectively running the rap game. Simply 50's demands for complete crew loyalty included an ultimatum that anybody in the Unit of measurement join him in taking on his many, many beefs within the industry, regardless of the context or history.
Game had no problem piling on against the Ja Rules and Joe Buddens of the globe, merely he drew the line at Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Nas — none of whom Game had bug with, and all of whom were targeted in fifty's song "Piggy Bank." So 50, with his perpetual flair for the dramatic, officially kicked Game out of G-Unit live on the air at Hot 97 in an interview that was cut off prematurely due to a shooting outside the station involving Game'southward crew (which had arrived outside the station'due south headquarters during the interview).
What followed was 1 of the almost extensive, extended beefs in hip-hop history: dozens of diss tracks, some of them fantabulous; Game'southward protracted "Thousand-UNOT" campaign; 50's G-Unit Radio 21: Hate It or Honey It mixtape that had a doctored image of Game in a thong on the comprehend and called him a male stripper; several rejected peace treaties, more often than not from Game's side; and dissever branches of the beef that straight involved Tony Yayo, Immature Buck and Lloyd Banks, among others, in diverse ways. With so many touch points and flare-ups, it'due south impossible to explicate information technology all.
The feud with 50 "ended" earlier this year when the two buried the hatchet at a society, but because the history of this battle information technology's unlikely to ever truly exist over. Just hey, if l found information technology in himself to welcome Buck dorsum to the fold and re-unite the Unit after years of bug in 2014, anything is possible. Maybe.
Jay Z and Roc-A-Fella, 2004-2012
This one is a petty hazy, admittedly, because it revolves effectually a lot of tiptoeing and evasive wording. But conventional wisdom says that Game had been trying to goad Jay Z into a beef since his 2004 cutting "Westside Story," in which he said he doesn't "do push button-up shirts or drive Maybachs." Almost people idea that was a dig at Jay; Game denied it and said it was directed at 50 Cent's arch enemy Ja Dominion. Jay, every bit is customary for him, didn't directly acknowledge the beefiness, just in a freestyle on Hot 97 seemed to take shots at the L.A. rapper by mentioning the word "game" multiple times, though he described the freestyle as an "ode to summer."
Game then dissed Jay and Roc-A-Fella on stage publicly, including Memphis Bleek (who had bug with Game due to his Go Low Records, the same name as Game's former label Get Depression Recordz) and Young Gunz, and added to the beef with a direct shot on "My Bitch," in which he also went at Suge Knight and 50 Cent. He would go along taking shots at Jay for years until 2012, when he seemed to finally give it up. Jay only really went at him one time — during a alive functioning of the "Blueprint 3 Intro" in 2009.
Joe Budden, 2004-2008
Game has never shied abroad from his gang-affiliated past, so when Joe Budden chosen out G-Unit as "gangsta actors" on a vocal from a 2004 DJ Inkling tape, he took it personally. It also didn't assistance that the e'er-clever Clue tacked a poetry from the Compton rapper onto the vocal, making it announced that Game had signed off on the track — and drawing the ire of 50 Cent for the perceived expose. Game fired back on wax with a track called "Buddens," and the two continued their dorsum-and-forth for years before it was all squashed with a text message and a telephone phone call. "Me and Game never really had an issue," Budden told MTV subsequently the beefiness had died. "It was more than so a Joe Budden vs. G-Unit thing."
Ras Kass, 2005-2006
W Coast rapper Ras Kass had gotten locked up for a D.U.I. and was attempting to resurrect his career in early 2005 through a serial of freestyles. I of those, "Caution," called out a particular "West Declension lyricist with East Coast love" who had "a 1000 tattoos and won't raise a gun" — before continuing, "So when you become murked/ I'ma raise your son." Ras denied the track was aimed at Game, calling it a "general statement," merely soon later on the ii rappers encountered each other in a club in L.A. If you believe one side, Game tried to jump Ras with 30 guys and failed; if you believe the other, Game ended the beef with a unmarried dial to the face.
Lil Eazy-E, 2005-2006
The Game has a well-known predilection for dropping names in both interviews and verses, and as a West Declension rapper from Compton, N.W.A was a favorite betoken of reference — particularly the grouping'southward late founder Eazy-Eastward, of whom Game'southward got a tattoo on his arm. Eazy'south son, creatively nicknamed Lil Eazy-E, had collaborated on a song with Game in 2004, just at some signal grew tired of Game name-dropping his father so often, and questioned Game's credibility. Game dropped "120 Bars" in 2005, calling out Lil Eazy for not writing his own lyrics and insinuating that he only started the feud to promote his own album; Lil Eazy responded a few months later with "Coming From Compton," which essentially said Game lied about knowing his father, called him disrespectful for the tattoo, and, once once again, said Game used to be a stripper. Past the end of 2006 the beef was over.
Suge Knight and Yukmouth, 2005; 2007
Some other beef that stemmed from G-Unit associations came via Game'due south feud with Yukmouth of Luniz, with several diss tracks flung across both sides. On Yuk's first, all the same, he as well claimed that Game had been slapped by Suge Knight, who had a long-continuing issue with Dr. Dre stemming back to their Death Row Records days, drawing Suge into the disharmonize as well. Yuk later on admitted that he had no problems with Game specifically, merely more with the Unit of measurement every bit a whole, and the 2005 West Coast Peace Elevation spearheaded past Snoop Dogg brought an end to their back and forth. Suge did not attend that event, though Steve Harvey spoke on his behalf, but Game had more than issues to air out — in 2007, he dedicated the third verse of his diss track "My Bitch" to taking downwardly Suge.
Shyne, 2012
After virtually a decade in prison, Shyne was a chip disgruntled by the state of things upon his release in 2009 and subsequent deportation to his native Belize. Only in 2012, he risked alienating everyone by calling Kendrick Lamar's widely-beloved debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city "trash" on Twitter for reasons only he can explain. Game immediately jumped in to defend the rising rapper, telling Shyne to "dorsum away… and if non… nosotros might find ourselves face up to face." After some more back and forth in interviews, Game dropped an a cappella called "Cough Upwards a Lung" aimed at the former Bad Male child rapper; Shyne responded with an a cappella of his own, "Psalms 68 (Guns & Moses)," later remixed into "Bury Judas," and more than shots were fired in more than interviews. Eventually, things just died downwards.
xl Glocc, 2012-Nowadays
As with so many of Game's beefs, this one stemmed from 40 Glocc's K-Unit affiliation, which automatically fabricated the ii W Declension rappers natural enemies. As the story goes, Game rolled up on twoscore Glocc with his crew and stepped to 40, and the two began exchanging punches while Game filmed the whole thing on his iPhone. The bad news for 40: he clearly lost the fight, and is shown in the video running from his fellow rapper. The bad news for The Game: 40 Glocc sued him for $4.5 million; a guess eventually awarded 40 $3,000 for his troubles. But that didn't stop things, and 40 wastes few opportunities to throw shots at The Game, most recently piling on with "snitch" rumors following the dust-upward with Meek Mill.
Lil Durk and G-Count, 2014
Lil Durk and Tyga had gotten into a bit of a back and forth over a lyric Durk dropped in a feature intended for a Chris Brownish–French Montana song that referenced Blac Chyna, Tyga'south then-fiancee and the mother of his son. Apropos of nothing outside of backing up his young man West Coast rapper, Game then hopped on a diss track that Tyga dropped days later called "ChiRaq to Fifty.A.," claiming that nobody knew who Durk was and… well, that was the extent of it.
Durk'southward preferred battleground was Twitter, and he weighed in on the artistic merits of Game's song, which he called "wack." Then Thousand-Count from the Chicago group L.E.P. Bogus Boys — who Game proper noun-checked every bit a "real" Chicago rapper in his original Durk diss — came to his younger comrade's aide against Game in a new rail, aptly titled "Fuck the Game Upwardly." T.I. came in and mediated the bug between Game and G-Count, and six weeks later, Game and Durk got on the phone to settle their differences during the 2014 BET Awards weekend. And all was well.
Chris Brown, 2015-Nowadays
Longtime allies and friends Game and CB got involved in a beefiness that was so trivial it hardly bears mentioning, merely hither we are. Chocolate-brown ended things with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran in a protracted breakup that seemed similar a story that would never truly come to an end, and Instagram became a identify where he aired out his feelings. That didn't change when he reacted to gossip 'grammers The Shade Room capturing The Game liking some of Tran's photos on the app and called out the rapper for "gimmicks" to promote his upcoming Documentary 2 album, to which Game responded with typical bravado. Game then shouted out Karreuche on his 2016 Jeremih-assisted single "All Eyez," keeping this one going for some reason.
Young Thug, 2015-2016
Post-obit his ain pattern of jumping into problems that don't involve him, The Game hopped into the feud between Lil Wayne and Young Thug in May of 2015, taking to the phase to threaten to "f— Immature Thug up" for dissing Weezy. Thugger responded almost immediately in his ain Instagram, referencing (once more!) Game's male person stripper photo as a reason he doesn't want to fight the West Coast MC: "I don't want no germs." The ii sent more Instagrams back and along before a truce was ultimately brokered by Jo Jo Capone, but for things to flare up in one case again a few months subsequently after Game gave an interview defending Wayne over again. More than Instagrams and then — finally! — a lyrical diss from Game during a freestyle emerged, before everything, once again, calmed down in July.
Stitches, 2015-Present
Stitches was a novelty rapper from Miami who inexplicably started throwing shots at The Game, including in a diss track titled — brilliantly!!!! — "Game Over." Sparring on social media followed, Game threatened Stitches in a freestyle on Power 106 in L.A., and and then in December 2015 the two rappers met face-to-face in the parking lot of a Miami nightclub. An incident began when Stitches allegedly was denied entry to the society, Game and his crew came out, police were called, and and then Game's manager promptly (allegedly) concluded the scuffle with a single punch to Stitches' face. The beefiness, unsurprisingly, remains intact.
Kehlani, 2016
In possibly the strangest beef on this list, The Game got drunkard one night — drinking fifty Cent's Effen Vodka liquor line, no less — and took to Instagram to #GetReal. Maybe a petty #TooReal: In an extended caption — during which he was trying to play dainty with l, no less — Game wrote that he and Fif "used to be tight as @Kehlani's p—y." In a beautiful response, the young Bay Area vocalist took to Instagram to post a picture of Rihanna looking disgusted and, among others, dropped the hashtags #YourLackOfRespectForWomenIsShowing, #YouNeedANap and #KeepMyYouthfulAssNameOutChaMouth. A week afterwards, the two were in the studio together with everything h2o under the bridge.
Meek Manufactory, 2016-Present
All of which brings the states to the current situation with Meek Manufacturing plant, which has extended to include Beanie Sigel, Sean Kingston, Omelly, 40 Glocc (of course) and, in a fit of peak nothingness, Drake. This one allegedly started over a state of affairs in a lodge a few months back when Kingston'southward chain was stolen, afterwards which Game accused Meek Manufactory of pointing the finger at Game and his crew. That is, allegedly, where the snitching accusations came from in Game'due south initial diss, and while there were threats tossed back and forth, the expert thing about this 1 is that it'southward stayed on wax — and produced some pretty solid diss tracks forth the way. With Game's recent comments on feeling torn about beefing with another Black artist while the Black Lives Matter move continues, this one seems similar information technology will die downward pretty soon as well. All we'll have left is Game's "Meeky Mouse" line, and nosotros'll all accept to be okay with that.
Honorable Mention: Game'south 2014 diss track "Bigger Than Me," which came pretty much out of nowhere and dissed everyone from Frank Body of water to 40 Glocc to XXL Magazine's 2014 Freshman Class (which, it should be noted, included Lil Durk and helped fuel part of their beef). This ane doesn't make the list because, frankly, no one really responded and it came and went without too much fuss. Sometimes, it seems, Game just disses considering he feels similar dissing.
Honorable Mention No. 2: There are several beefs that Game commented on or stepped into without actively participating, and one of them was the long-running blood feud between l Cent and Rick Ross. Despite his animosity with Fif, however, Game sided with his former Chiliad-Unit boss in 2009, at least in the spirit of the beef, saying that 50 was winning and Ross needed to footstep upward: "Rick Ross, holla at ya boy, human being. 50 eating you, male child."
Honorable Mention No. 3: For as much as The Game has tried to end beefs — the multiple olive branches offered to 50 Cent, his involvement in the West Coast Peace Treaty — he has never truly been able to end himself from getting involved in them. To that point, some shout outs to others Game has gotten into feuds with or dissed over the years: Benzino, Bishop Lamont, Xzibit, Guerilla Black, Lil B, JT the Bigga Figga, Olivia and every other member of G-Unit who may have been tangentially connected to the coiffure that hasn't been previously named. At that place are many.
Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/the-game-rap-beef-history-meek-mill-50-cent-7518026/
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