The Game Talks Meek Mill Beef, Ending Feud With 50 Cent & Apologies to Nicki on the Breakfast Club

The Game is back in headlines this week afterwards dissing Meek Factory and calling him a snitch, sparking an extended back and along — on Instagram and on wax — that is still ongoing. But the result with Meek is simply the latest in Game's long history of music-industry beefing, dating back to his early on days as function of fifty Cent'due south One thousand-Unit crew. Every bit the diss tracks keep flight and more and more than people weigh in on the issues betwixt Meek and Game, Billboard takes a look dorsum through a decade-plus of Game's hip-hop beefs.

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50 Cent and G-Unit (Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Spider Loc, Mobb Deep), 2005-Forever

Ironically, The Game's biggest and longest-running beef stemmed, at least initially, from his unwillingness to beef in the kickoff place. When Game signed to Aftermath Entertainment in 2003, then-Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine placed the immature MC into fifty Cent'south G-Unit camp, which at that fourth dimension was finer running the rap game. But l'south demands for consummate crew loyalty included an ultimatum that everyone in the Unit 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 world, simply he drew the line at Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Nas — none of whom Game had issues with, and all of whom were targeted in 50's vocal "Piggy Bank." So 50, with his perpetual flair for the dramatic, officially kicked Game out of Grand-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'due south crew (which had arrived outside the station's headquarters during the interview).

What followed was one of the almost extensive, extended beefs in hip-hop history: dozens of diss tracks, some of them excellent; Game's protracted "Yard-UNOT" campaign; 50'southward One thousand-Unit Radio 21: Hate It or Beloved It mixtape that had a doctored epitome of Game in a thong on the cover and chosen him a male stripper; several rejected peace treaties, more often than not from Game'south side; and separate branches of the beef that directly involved Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Lloyd Banks, among others, in various means. With so many bear on points and flare-ups, it's impossible to explain it all.

The feud with fifty "ended" earlier this year when the 2 buried the hatchet at a club, just considering the history of this battle it's unlikely to always truly be over. Simply hey, if 50 found it in himself to welcome Cadet back to the fold and re-unite the Unit after years of bug in 2014, anything is possible. Possibly.

Jay Z and Roc-A-Fella, 2004-2012

This one is a little hazy, admittedly, considering it revolves around a lot of tiptoeing and evasive diction. Just 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." Near people thought that was a dig at Jay; Game denied it and said it was directed at l Cent'due south curvation enemy Ja Rule. Jay, equally is customary for him, didn't direct admit the beef, but in a freestyle on Hot 97 seemed to take shots at the L.A. rapper by mentioning the give-and-take "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 old label Become 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 continue taking shots at Jay for years until 2012, when he seemed to finally give information technology upwardly. Jay merely actually went at him once — during a live functioning of the "Blueprint three Intro" in 2009.

Joe Budden, 2004-2008

Game has never shied abroad from his gang-affiliated past, so when Joe Budden called out G-Unit every bit "gangsta actors" on a song from a 2004 DJ Clue record, he took it personally. It also didn't help that the always-clever Clue tacked a verse from the Compton rapper onto the vocal, making information technology announced that Game had signed off on the rail — 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 bulletin and a phone phone call. "Me and Game never actually had an outcome," Budden told MTV after the beef had died. "It was more and then a Joe Budden vs. Thou-Unit affair."

Ras Kass, 2005-2006

West Declension rapper Ras Kass had gotten locked upwardly for a D.U.I. and was attempting to resurrect his career in early 2005 through a series of freestyles. One of those, "Circumspection," called out a detail "West Coast lyricist with E Declension love" who had "a thousand tattoos and won't heighten a gun" — earlier continuing, "Then when yous become murked/ I'ma raise your son." Ras denied the track was aimed at Game, calling information technology a "full general statement," but presently afterwards the two rappers encountered each other in a club in L.A. If yous believe ane side, Game tried to jump Ras with 30 guys and failed; if y'all believe the other, Game ended the beef with a single punch to the confront.

Lil Eazy-E, 2005-2006

The Game has a well-known predilection for dropping names in both interviews and verses, and as a West Coast rapper from Compton, N.Due west.A was a favorite point of reference — especially the group's late founder Eazy-E, of whom Game's got a tattoo on his arm. Eazy's son, creatively nicknamed Lil Eazy-E, had collaborated on a vocal with Game in 2004, but at some betoken grew tired of Game name-dropping his male parent so frequently, and questioned Game's credibility. Game dropped "120 Confined" in 2005, calling out Lil Eazy for non writing his own lyrics and insinuating that he only started the feud to promote his own anthology; Lil Eazy responded a few months later with "Coming From Compton," which essentially said Game lied virtually knowing his father, called him disrespectful for the tattoo, and, one time over again, said Game used to be a stripper. Past the end of 2006 the beef was over.

Suge Knight and Yukmouth, 2005; 2007

Another beef that stemmed from G-Unit of measurement associations came via Game's feud with Yukmouth of Luniz, with several diss tracks flung across both sides. On Yuk's first, however, he as well claimed that Game had been slapped by Suge Knight, who had a long-standing result with Dr. Dre stemming back to their Expiry Row Records days, drawing Suge into the conflict as well. Yuk later admitted that he had no issues with Game specifically, only more with the Unit equally a whole, and the 2005 West Coast Peace Top spearheaded by Snoop Dogg brought an stop to their back and forth. Suge did not attend that event, though Steve Harvey spoke on his behalf, but Game had more bug to air out — in 2007, he dedicated the third poesy of his diss runway "My Bowwow" to taking down Suge.

Shyne, 2012

After most a decade in prison, Shyne was a scrap disgruntled past the state of things upon his release in 2009 and subsequent displacement to his native Belize. Only in 2012, he risked alienating everyone by calling Kendrick Lamar's widely-beloved debut album good kid, chiliad.A.A.d city "trash" on Twitter for reasons simply he tin can explain. Game immediately jumped in to defend the ascent rapper, telling Shyne to "back away… and if not… we might find ourselves face up to face." After some more back and forth in interviews, Game dropped an a cappella called "Cough Upward a Lung" aimed at the former Bad Boy 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 interviews. Eventually, things just died downward.

xl Glocc, 2012-Present

As with and then many of Game's beefs, this 1 stemmed from forty Glocc's G-Unit of measurement amalgamation, which automatically made the ii West Coast rappers natural enemies. As the story goes, Game rolled up on 40 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 conspicuously 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.five million; a judge eventually awarded forty $3,000 for his troubles. But that didn't end things, and 40 wastes few opportunities to throw shots at The Game, most recently piling on with "snitch" rumors post-obit the dust-up with Meek Mill.

Lil Durk and G-Count, 2014

Lil Durk and Tyga had gotten into a bit of a back and along over a lyric Durk dropped in a characteristic intended for a Chris Brown–French Montana song that referenced Blac Chyna, Tyga's then-fiancee and the mother of his son. Apropos of nothing exterior of backing up his boyfriend Westward Coast rapper, Game then hopped on a diss runway that Tyga dropped days later chosen "ChiRaq to L.A.," challenge that nobody knew who Durk was and… well, that was the extent of it.

Durk's preferred battleground was Twitter, and he weighed in on the artistic merits of Game's song, which he called "wack." Then Chiliad-Count from the Chicago group L.E.P. Artificial Boys — who Game name-checked equally a "existent" Chicago rapper in his original Durk diss — came to his younger comrade's adjutant against Game in a new rails, aptly titled "Fuck the Game Upwards." T.I. came in and mediated the issues 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-Present

Longtime allies and friends Game and CB got involved in a beefiness that was and so trivial it hardly bears mentioning, merely hither nosotros are. Brown ended things with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran in a protracted breakdown that seemed like a story that would never truly come to an finish, and Instagram became a place where he aired out his feelings. That didn't alter 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 blowing. Game and then shouted out Karreuche on his 2016 Jeremih-assisted single "All Eyez," keeping this one going for some reason.

Immature Thug, 2015-2016

Following his own pattern of jumping into bug that don't involve him, The Game hopped into the feud betwixt Lil Wayne and Young Thug in May of 2015, taking to the stage to threaten to "f— Immature Thug upwards" for dissing Weezy. Thugger responded almost immediately in his own Instagram, referencing (once more!) Game'south male person stripper photo every bit a reason he doesn't want to fight the West Coast MC: "I don't desire no germs." The two sent more Instagrams back and forth before a truce was ultimately brokered past Jo Jo Capone, only for things to flare up over again a few months later after Game gave an interview defending Wayne one time more. More Instagrams and then — finally! — a lyrical diss from Game during a freestyle emerged, before everything, once once again, calmed downwardly in July.

Stitches, 2015-Present

Stitches was a novelty rapper from Miami who inexplicably started throwing shots at The Game, including in a diss rail titled — brilliantly!!!! — "Game Over." Sparring on social media followed, Game threatened Stitches in a freestyle on Ability 106 in L.A., and then in December 2015 the two rappers met contiguous in the parking lot of a Miami nightclub. An incident began when Stitches allegedly was denied entry to the club, Game and his crew came out, police were called, and then Game'southward manager promptly (allegedly) concluded the scuffle with a single dial to Stitches' face. The beef, unsurprisingly, remains intact.

Kehlani, 2016

In possibly the strangest beef on this listing, The Game got boozer one nighttime — drinking 50 Cent'southward Effen Vodka liquor line, no less — and took to Instagram to #GetReal. Maybe a little #TooReal: In an extended caption — during which he was trying to play nice with 50, no less — Game wrote that he and Fif "used to exist tight as @Kehlani's p—y." In a beautiful response, the young Bay Expanse singer took to Instagram to mail service a picture of Rihanna looking disgusted and, among others, dropped the hashtags #YourLackOfRespectForWomenIsShowing, #YouNeedANap and #KeepMyYouthfulAssNameOutChaMouth. A week afterward, the ii were in the studio together with everything h2o under the bridge.

Meek Manufacturing plant, 2016-Nowadays

All of which brings us to the current state of affairs with Meek Factory, which has extended to include Beanie Sigel, Sean Kingston, Omelly, 40 Glocc (of course) and, in a fit of height pettiness, Drake. This one allegedly started over a state of affairs in a guild a few months back when Kingston's chain was stolen, after which Game defendant Meek Mill of pointing the finger at Game and his coiffure. That is, allegedly, where the snitching accusations came from in Game'south initial diss, and while at that place were threats tossed dorsum and forth, the practiced matter almost this one is that it's stayed on wax — and produced some pretty solid diss tracks along the manner. With Game's recent comments on feeling torn about beefing with another Black artist while the Black Lives Matter motility continues, this ane seems similar it will die down pretty soon also. All we'll have left is Game's "Meeky Mouse" line, and nosotros'll all have to be okay with that.

Honorable Mention: Game's 2014 diss track "Bigger Than Me," which came pretty much out of nowhere and dissed everyone from Frank Ocean to forty Glocc to XXL Magazine's 2014 Freshman Form (which, it should be noted, included Lil Durk and helped fuel office of their beef). This one doesn't brand the list because, frankly, no 1 actually responded and it came and went without too much fuss. Sometimes, information technology seems, Game just disses because he feels like dissing.

Honorable Mention No. two: In that location are several beefs that Game commented on or stepped into without actively participating, and one of them was the long-running claret feud betwixt 50 Cent and Rick Ross. Despite his antagonism with Fif, however, Game sided with his former G-Unit boss in 2009, at least in the spirit of the beef, proverb that fifty was winning and Ross needed to step up: "Rick Ross, holla at ya boy, man. 50 eating yous, boy."

Honorable Mention No. 3: For as much as The Game has tried to terminate beefs — the multiple olive branches offered to 50 Cent, his involvement in the West Coast Peace Treaty — he has never truly been able to terminate himself from getting involved in them. To that signal, 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 fellow member of G-Unit who may take been tangentially continued to the coiffure that hasn't been previously named. There are many.

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