The Game’s number one favourite album of all time
The Game was discovered by Dr. Dre and signed to his Aftermath label in 2003, so it may come as no surprise as to who is responsible for his favourite album of all time. The Compton rapper was asked to name his top 25 albums in 2011, but there’s one body of work that had to take priority ahead of the rest.
“You know how I want my list to look? The Chronic got to be by itself with no number, and then the list starts,” The Game said. “The Chronic was just an incredible fucking album, man. It was so well put together. It was actually more of a fucking Snoop album. Snoop was on every song on The Chronic and shit. It was like Snoop’s introduction to the world.
“You think, ‘Damn, if I’m going to meet Dre, or I’m about to be signed to Dre, I’m going to ask him so many questions about the album.’ But I never had that conversation with him. Neither one of them, and I see them and talk to them all the time.”
The Chronic, released in 1992, served as Dr Dre’s first album as a solo artist away from NWA while also introducing the world to Snoop Dogg. The classic LP is triple-platinum, with sales of three million copies in the US.
Dr Dre, together with 50 Cent, executive produced The Game’s debut album The Documentary, which was released in 2005 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. It was home to his hit singles ‘Hate It or Love It’ and ‘How We Do’.
However, in recent years, The Game has created some tension between himself and Dr Dre after claiming Kanye West had done more for him in just two weeks than Dre ever did. The Compton rapper later admitted he regrets his comments and put it down to being under the influence of alcohol.
“So basically I was hollering at N.O.R.E. and them a little inebriated,” he said on the Bars and Nuggets podcast. “And I said some things that I meant. I’m not gon’ take it back – I ain’t no sucker. But having Dre do anything for your project, anything in your career, touch any part of anything you’re doing in life is such a blessing that I shall not ever shit on that again.”
He continued, “And I haven’t talked to Dre since. And it don’t really matter if we talk again in life. Like, I’m a standup Compton, L.A. n-gga and it is what it is. I said what I said, I’m not going back on it. It’s just that I should have actually gave him more grace for what he did do and that was actually mentoring me and doing things that nobody could have done for me in my career.”