LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 22: The Game plays in the BETX Celebrity Basketball Game Sponsored By Sprite during the BET Experience at Los Angeles Convention Center on June 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for BET)
Whew! The Game’s Twitter fingers got loose late Wednesday night. The rapper took to the platform to condemn using streams as a way to measure rap skills, blast labels and challenge Eminem and any “dumb enough” rappers who are willing to “go to war with [him]” when he’s on his A game. Chile, let’s get into what Game had to say!
“All this talk I see on the net saying Eminem is better than me because he sold more records is like saying McDonalds is better than Tams burgers, its FALSE,” The Game wrote first. “They just put more money in McDonalds & promoted the sh*t out the happy meal dangling toys in kids faces.”
The Game might’ve been referencing Wednesday’s reports that Eminem made RIAA history. Apparently, he set the record for artist with the most gold and platinum certified singles. Per the announcement, Eminem has received a total of 227.5 certifications, with 166 million single certifications and 61.5 album certifications. Not only that, the rapper is also one of seven musicians to have three or more diamond albums across any genre or era.
In his follow-up tweets, he wrote about the influence of record labels on artist sales and streams.
“Translation for those of you who dont know how major record companies do business: its a machine designed to work for the artists who PLAY NICE in massas house,” The Game said. “I was TOO REAL, TOO UNAPOLOGETICALLY BLACK & cut the puppet strings early on in my career n decided to rebel.”
He claims most labels buy albums and pay off people to boost artist sales.
“If you aint dancin to massas tune, you lose your budget & the machine is taken off your project and put to work on another artist whos willing to SD,” The Game wrote.
Lack of interest apparently kept The Game quiet in the past about these inner industry workings.
“But Im tired of the lies & bullsh*t propaganda they throw out here for fans to gobble up, conspiracy, smear campaigns & black balls ni**as been bouncin round this industry my entire career,” Game continued. “Im back outside & this entire sh*t bout to get shook the f**k up!!!”
And outside he’s been, especially with the newly single Kanye West. Game and Ye recently dropped a controversial music video to their song “Eazy.” The video went viral for featuring an animated character that resembles ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s new bae Pete Davidson.
The Game also wrote about the control labels exert over artists and what matters in real rap artistry.
“They only want you to believe in yourself to a certain extent. Soon as you start telling yourself youre better than their CHOSEN ONE or challenge the machine, they start feeding the internet STATS like I give a f*ck how many records the next man sold,” The Game wrote.
He doubled down on trashing records sales saying, “F*ck how many records he sold, you sold or I sold.” The artist made it clear that sold records mean as much as his “YMCA [trophies].”
“I dont give a f*ck what songs Eddie Kane use to be able to sing. Get the f*ck in that booth in REAL TIME TODAY & LETS F**KIN RAP,” Game said.
He wrapped his tweets with what reads like both a warning and a challenge.
“And that aint just for Em, thats for any rapper in this sh*t that been in this sh*t since I came in thats dumb enough to think they can go to war with me when Im ALL THE WAY IN MY F**KIN BAG,” the rapper said.
And for anyone who plays with him this year, The Game is prepared to take their “whole fan base.”
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