The rapper The Game called a “jealous piece of shit”
The Game was on top of the world during the mid-2000s, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 with his The Documentary and Doctor’s Advocate albums. Around that time, he was also kicked out of G-Unit due to his alleged disloyalty to 50 Cent. Their feud was sour, with the Compton rapper putting his weight into the “G-Unot” movement.
During an interview in 2006, Game was asked whether he ever anticipated his relationship with the crew ending on such bad terms. He claimed his position in G-Unit had never been organic from the beginning.
“I knew 50 was a fuckin’ jealous piece of shit from the start but I was forced into that situation,” he told Rap Reviews. “But I knew in time I would gain some things from it, and so would G-Unit, and I had a wonderful time while I participated in the group. But at this point, I’m Ice Cube when he left NWA, man. I gotta make it happen for me now.”
Game went into detail about being added to G-Unit by Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine to fast-track his rise to fame. “It was, ‘We’re gonna put you with these guys and there’s a possibility that you might blow up before you’re supposed to blow up,'” he said. “That was by Jimmy Iovine, and it was a fuckin’ ingenious idea, man. Jimmy Iovine’s the fuckin’ brain of the whole operation. But now it’s me doing my own thing. I’m The Game, I was a solo artist then, and that’s why I didn’t really fit.
Adding, “It’s kinda like trying to put a puzzle together, you don’t have that last piece. What are you gonna do, shove a piece of gum in there and mould it around the puzzle? That shit’s not gonna look right. So you’re gonna have to take that gum out and stick that gum on the wall, and that’s me at this point.”
On another occasion, Game opened up about getting into a shootout with 50 after they parted ways. 50 announced he was kicking Game out of the group on Hot 97, prompting Game to approach him at the radio station.
“They wouldn’t let us in the building, it was locked, and there was security,” he said on VladTV. “50 was travelling with like, ex-Marines and shit like that. We just had the homies. We got into some shit with his entourage and his security, and shots were fired, a lot of shots were fired. The crazy thing about it, I think it was one of the coldest days in New York in the last 50 years or something.”
He concluded, “The snow was like, up to n*gga’s knees and so, we had on Converse and shit. I don’t know if anybody ever been to New York when it’s snowing heavy, but Converse in New York in the winter is the absolute worst decision you could make. “It was n*ggas slipping and sliding, I remember we was hiding behind trash trucks and shooting back. It was just a whole shootout outside of Hot 97.”