Hate It or Love It: Game's 25 Most Controversial Moments
The Compton MC has made headlines for years now.
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Hate It or Love It: Game's 25 Most Controversial Moments - Deja vu, anyone? Game's fourth full-length, The R.E.D. Album, is in stores this week, and sure enough, the Compton MC is back in the conversation with several recent controversies. Whether it's dissing Jay-Z, getting in trouble with the L.A. sheriff, or even taking shots at Lebron James, Game certainly knows how to get people talking. Click on for a look at Game's 25 Most Controversial Moments. —Alex Gale (Photo: Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)
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You Give Me Butterflies - When Game tatted a dainty-looking butterly beside his right eye, he got quite a few, well, side-eyes. He later covered it up with a much more gangsterific red star and the L.A. Dodgers' logo.(Photos, from left: Peter Kramer/Getty Images, Terrence Jennings/PictureGroup)
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Ex Girl to the Next Girl - Back in 2006, TMZ uncovered a humiliating old episode of the dating show Change of Heart featuring a 21-year-old Game and a former girlfriend. The rapper’s love interest disses him repeatedly, saying that he cries “like a baby,” “has nothing going for himself,” and is a “scrub” — and then dumps him at the end of the show. We wonder if she wishes she could get a do-over on that one.\r\r(Photo: Warner Bros.)
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Legacy of a Legend - In 2004, before his debut album had even dropped, Game got into a feud with Lil Eazy-E, son of the late Compton gangsta rap legend. E charged that Game was misusing his father's name. (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Soul on Ice Pack - In one of the more random rapper beefs of all time, Game and slept-on underground lyricist Ras Kass have gotten into multiple rumbles in various L.A. clubs over the past five years. (Photo: Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)
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What Happened in D.C.?\r - In 2005, Game and members of his crew were hit with assault charges and a $280 million lawsuit after a DJ and cameraman were assaulted at WKYS-FM near D.C. Game later bragged about the incident in "Hate It or Love It," rapping, "Don't make me remind y'all what happened in D.C." Game's manager, Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond, was later convicted of assault.\r\r(Photo: Chad Buchanan/Getty Images)
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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong - On February 28, 2005, 50 Cent announced on the air at New York's Hot 97 that he was dropping Game from G Unit, criticizing the Compton MC for failing to back him up during some beefs with other high-profile rappers. Game and his entourage attempted to get into the station during the announcement, words were exchanged, and shots were fired, leaving a 24-year-old Compton man wounded.(Photo: Frank Micelotta/Fox/PictureGroup)
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I Love You, Man - In perhaps the most awkward man-hug of all time, Game and 50 Cent agree to a truce at a press conference in the wake of the shooting at Hot 97 FM. Just weeks later, they were back beefing with each other again.
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Play on Words - After their much-hyped truce breaks down, Game lights into 50 and G-Unit by launching his "G-U-Not" campaign onstage at Hot 97's Summer Jam in 2005.(Photo: G Unit Records)
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Behind Bars - In 2005, after starting his "G-U-Not" campaign, Game releases "300 Bars and Running," a vicious, novel-length diss track that takes some serious shots at G-Unit, as well as members of Roc-A-Fella Records. (Photo: Mike Yarish/PictureGroup)
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Game Off - In 2007, Game was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in Greensboro, North Carolina, after he allegedly walked around a mall wearing a Halloween mask, filming shoppers and cursing loudly and then refused to leave when asked. The police officers involved in the case, which never went to trial, later sued him for defamation. Too bad Dre isn't a real doctor, cause sometimes it seems like Game needs one!(Photo: Law Enforcement)
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Run the Courts - In May 2007, Game was arrested in connection with an incident at a basketball game in L.A. earlier that year. He was alleged to have threatened a person with a gun and is charged with multiple crimes. In February 2008, he pleaded no contest to a felony weapons charge and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 150 hours of community service and three years probation.
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Hip Hop Cop - In November 2005, Game was arrested in Manhattan on charges of impersonating a police officer after he told a cab driver he was a cop and convinced him to speed through several red lights. The case was later dismissed.(Photo: Terrence Jennings/PictureGroup)
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Death Row for Real - In 2005, rumors emerged that Death ROW CEO and long-time Dr. Dre nemesis Suge Knight slapped Game. The Compton rapper denied the incident on his website and wrote that if Knight ever stepped to him he would be left "six feet under." (Photo: Walik Goshorn/Retna Ltd.)
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Rock Bottom - Only Game could get into a rap battle with model Vida Guerra. After Game name-dropped her in 2007's "Wouldn't Get Far," he also spilled some rather explicit details about an alleged encounter between the two years prior in a radio interview. Guerra denied the incident ever took place, and responded with a diss song (if you want to call it that) of her own.(Photo: AdrianSidney/PictureGroup
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Roses Really Smell Like... - Despite his frequent—and dope—collabos with Kanye West, Game dissed the MC-producer's then girlfriend in passing on the Jay-Z-focused "I'm So Wavy," calling her a "h-" and a "gold digger." Game tweaked the model again in this year's "Uncle Otis" freestyle.
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So Crazy Right Now\r - Onstage at a show in Madrid, Spain, in 2009, Game spit a freestyle directed at Jay-Z, and his wife Beyoncé got hit in the crossfire. The Compton firebrand accused her of sleeping with several NBA players, but later recanted, saying it was a "freestyle."\r\r(Photo: Aaron D. Settipane/WENN.com)
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The After-Aftermath\r - Years after Dr. Dre dropped him in the wake of his beef with 50 Cent, Game reconciled with the Aftermath CEO last year, tweeting a picture of himself wearing several Aftermath chains. It's unclear what the surprising reunion means for the relationship between 50 Cent and Dre.\r\r(Photo: Fernando Leon/Elevation/PictureGroup)
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Killin' Everbody in Sight - This past July, Game dropped his “Uncle Otis” freestyle over the beat to Kanye West and Jay-Z's chart-topping "Otis." Sparing no one, Game takes shots at long-time target Jay-Z, Kanye, Rick Ross, Frank Ocean, Big Sean, Shyne, Miguel, Drake, Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator and others on the song.(Photo: Roc Nation, Island Def Jam)
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Get Off Moms - We don't even know what to say about this one. Game gets a little graphic on Lebron James' mother, Gloria James, on a new track called "Martians vs Goblins":Then I hit LeBron mom, in Bron's Bron's coup With Delonte West taping, and we had BonBons too And Cleveland cheerleaders, they had pom poms too(Photo: AP Photo/Phil Long)
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Can't Leave Rap Alone - Game pulled a move out of his long-time target Jay-Z's book in 2008, claiming that his third album, LAX, would be his last. He's leaked several songs since then, and The R.E.D. Album hits stores this week. (Photos: Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)
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Crossing the Line\r - This past April, Game was denied entry into Canada — where he had been scheduled to perform several shows — and detained for two days, supposedly because of his alleged ties to the Bloods.\r\r(Photo: The Game)
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Debased God - In an interview with DJ Vlad earlier this month (August 2011), Game is asked who the five wackest rappers are. He names Vanilla Ice, long-time rivals Memphis Bleek and Ras Kass and everyone’s favorite punching bag Lil Zane, but says Internet sensation Lil B is the wackest of them all. (Photo: Amalgam Digital)
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Am I My Brother's Keeper? - Last year Game and his older brother, Big Fase 100, got into a war of words. Fase accused Game of neglecting his family and stealing song ideas, and Game shot back "f--- family," claiming that none of his family members visited him in the hospital after he was shot in 2001.(Photo: Interscope, Aftermath Entertainment)