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...Game (born Jayceon Taylor) finds himself in the unfamiliar position of trying to sell an album that includes no Dre instrumentals or Fiddy hooks and, therefore, is not guaranteed platinum status. The cards are stacked against him, but that’s exactly how this former drug dealer from Compton, Calif. likes...
...title of The Game’s sophomore effort, “Doctor’s Advocate,” is an homage to Dre, a fellow Compton native who discovered The Game in 2002 and gave him his first recording contract. Following a bitter feud between The Game and 50, The Game left Dre’s Aftermath label for Geffen because, as he said, he didn’t want 50 (who records for Aftermath) to make any money on his latest...
...that runs over your face like all the others are supposed to. This track proves that the Black Eyed Peas frontman, who effortlessly spits the gangsta-homage hook, would might be considered a great rap artist if he weren’t responsible for Fergie. On “Compton,” and to a lesser extent on the Public Enemy-jacking “Remedy,” Game transcends his obsessions with the Good Doctor and label politics and creates an organic, vivid Compton soundscape. Alas, next comes Scott Storch. He produces the same...
Corporal Michael Compton carries a plastic bag containing a pair of his wife's underwear. She gave it to him before his first deployment to Iraq, when they were still dating. "She said that she would stick by me," he says. But on a patrol outside Fallujah, the bag fell out of his pocket and blew away. "I thought it was long gone," he says. A week later, while "out in the middle of nowhere," he noticed a plastic bag and picked it up. The underwear was inside. "I couldn't believe it. I guess it was a sign because...
...Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Ben Harper, Ralph Nader and, proving that casting directors are underpaid, the mom from Dharma & Greg. You figure if the Field of Dreams guy got Shoeless Joe to come to a baseball field in a cornfield, this is just about right for a cornfield near Compton...