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The Game - L.A.X.: Album Review
The Game, L.A.X. (Geffen, 2008) Despite his being kicked out of G-Unit and disowned by Dr. Dre, the Game's last album, Doctor's Advocate, somehow managed to be the rare commercial rap album that's actually worth a shit. Can he repeat that feat here, or was it just a fluke? The Game @ MySpace INTRO The Ronnie Dobbs of hip-hop, DMX, kicks things off with a prayer. Hilarious. X pronounces Jayceon the same way Ras Kass does. Or is that how it's pronounced? LAX FILES It's been too long since (I'll admit) I watched the first season of the X Files, but I think this beat might incorporate that series' theme. Hmm... Also, the Game, whom I don't anyone has ever regarded as technically gifted, kicks this awkward doubletime flow. STATE OF EMERGENCY Another confession: I used to own that shitty anti-globalization video game that shares a title with this song. I think I lost it in a move. Or maybe I still have it somewhere. Who knows? Anyhoo, I'm feeling this a bit more than that first one. It's got old, irrelevant Ice Cube on the chorus (and just the chorus, thank god), as well as that Ohio Players synth squeal that you find in so much West Coast rap. BULLETPROOF DIARIES Speaking of being old and irrelevant, Raekwon drops some guest raps on this. If him and the Game were actually in the studio together at all, I'm sure the two of them commiserated about trying to put an album out with that damn Dr. Dre. MY LIFE Question: Why is it that every major label rap album that comes out these days has gotta have a song with Lil' Wayne on it? Man, funk dat! MONEY Oh no, that's not... tell me that's not... a sample of that motherfucking Donna Summer record, "She Works Hard for the Money," or whatever it's called. Damn, I think it is. Also: I'm pretty sure this is just a song about how much money the Game has. Like one of those old Cash Money records, except with less of an excuse. CALI SUNSHINE This song's teh ghey chorus, sung by Bilal, is giving me flashbacks of several of my least favorite moments from the two Lupe Fiasco albums. Scary! YA HEARD What's the point of taking such an obvious sample and twisting it into such an avant garde form? Everyone knows this is "Jam on It." Except, now it's that much more migraine-inducing. Somewhere, J Dilla's corpse is rolling over in its grave. HARD LIQUOR A voicemail message Nas left for the Game. If ever there were two rappers made for one another... HOUSE OF PAIN Wasn't there a Dr. Dre record that sounds just like this, except without all of the musicality stripped out of it? God, DJ Toomp is worthless. How many more songs are these rappers gonna let him ruin, just because he had that one hit with T.I.? GENTLEMAN'S AFFAIR Holy crap, this is gay! Someone's gonna have to figure out a way to out Ne-Yo, so these rappers won't feel right about putting him on their albums anymore. LET US LIVE The keyboard Scott Storch used to make this must have a "meh" preset. TOUCHDOWN A third teh ghey R&B record in a row, just to round things out. The sad thing is, none of these has any shot at becoming a hit single. ANGEL The Kanye-produced Common feature. It sounds a lot more like something from the last Common album (in a bad way, natch) than a Game record. NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE Game raps from the perspective of 2Pac, Biggie, and Eazy-E, the nights they died. Huh? There's stannery, and then there's stannery. This is obviously the latter. DOPE BOYS What should have been this year's "One Blood." If only it didn't have seemingly the most obnoxiously bizarre production evar. GAME'S PAIN Another early single that failed to set the world on fire. This one's problem is that it sounds like a Keyshia Cole record. Like, maybe they took one of the throwaways from her last album and tacked a couple of Game verses onto it. LETTER TO THE KING A rap song about Martin Luther King? Really? Let me guess: Nas got this idea from the most recent entry in the Michael Eric Dyson book of the month club? Choice line: "I need Rihanna's umbrella for Coretta Scott's teardrops... I wonder why Jesse didn't catch his body before it dropped. Will he answer my question? Probably not." OUTRO DMX is back, and he's way more amped up than he was on the intro! Roffle. COMMENTS: If you listen closely, you can hearing a swishing sound in the background of this album. Those of us who went to college will recognize it as the sound of the law of diminishing marginal returns beginning to set in with regard to the Game's career. Well, at least artistically. Probably commercially as well, though. Doctor's Advocate didn't do nearly as well as The Documentary; and the only reason it did as well as it did is because it was fucking killer. This album, meanwhile, is fucking gay. BEST TRACKS: Who cares? www.byroncrawford.com
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Fuck game. Lax takes it up the ass.
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documentary was classic, da was good, lax is below average. way too many rnb features and some of the production is wack.
damn i hate weezy by the way, he ruins every song hes on with that annoying voice. that new album from gza>> lax >>>> carter 3 |
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i admit this album wasn't the best, but your just hating
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL, propz mayne!
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Lmao damn the album is garbage, i won't even listen to that shit but the reviewer sound like he telling the truth, lax could possibly be worse then da, those two albums might even be in the top 5 worst albums of all time.
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lmfao......
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Dam, Byron smashed this shit, dam. But come on, it aint as bad as he making it out to be, I dont think its that good of an album, its average, no hate, just real talk. Some wack ass songs, some dope songs, too many features and the production isnt what it should have been. Overall for him to keep saying its his last album, it wont be, and if I was a Game fan, I wouldnt be happy he is going out leaving the fans with this as his send off. Doc, Da > LAX.
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the album sucks. 2 much features and only like 4 good songs
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this review is just hating, but the album was wack. Dope boys was good, house of pain was alright, the rest = gar to the bage
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All you G unit Cumm Guzzlers just mad Cuz TOS Flopped the hardest in known History.
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LAX is better than DA....but thats not saying anything at all!!! it was not even close to TOS in the first place.....but i was actually having a pretty bad feeling about the album once game said that The DA was his fav album made during an interview.......theres only 3 or 4 good songs in the album anyways.....i dont think he'll ever make an album thats even close to The Doc....
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^^^^^wtf tos is 1 of the wackest album of 08(no hate) has only 1 or 2 good tracks!!!!!!!!!!!! l.a.x has 4 or 5 good tracks so lax>>>>>>>tos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and lol only gunit dickryders in this thread .. im out
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^^ wait so ur calling straight outta southside, piano man, close to me, casualties of war, no days off, t.o.s., let it go, i dont wanna talk about it, ready or not and money make the world go round bad songs?????? kill ya self.....
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this album is maaaaaaddddddd wack
game gon flop haaaaarrrrrdddd
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Bro you no the GAme stans, and well this kids name is Buck, so he just pissed Buck is fake and got exposed as the bitch he is, only 2 good songs on TOS? I mean you listed them all, I mean SOS, Rider are 2 songs that are dope as fuck, and really everyone in NY would say the same, since every mixtape DJ blasted them off like crazy, but Close To Me, TOS, No Days Off isnt dope? Caus Of War, You So Tough, Party Aint Over, Let It Go, Talk About It, Money Make The World Go Round, come on, I aint saying TOS is the best album, but wack or wackest of 08, shit is sad that little ass kids are that stupid. Either they dont understand anything about hip hop, or they are fake as fuck and just talk dumb shit, lie just to blast and hate on shit, either way, they corny both ways.
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And look at this kid, you no he is like 14, a total dipshit kid with no life or friends. Only a pure dumb ass would say something like that, TOS the hardest flop in known history? WTF? Reading shit like this, i really just cant imagine how fucking corny and gay some kids are out there, I mean dam, an album that sells 102k first week is the hardest flop in history? When you got albums that have number 1 singles doing 70k to 80k, albums out there that do 5k, 15k first week, and 102k with losing a member, no BET play, no new singles before or after the album came out, Fif didnt promote it, Interscope didnt promote it, only shipped 140k first week, lose a main member of the group, and still sell 102k first week, and thats the biggest flop in history?
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Fuck yourself and this review, cause the album you got as your sig is the worst rap album to come out ever
here is my impression of 50 after lookin at the soundscan "whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa" that is a gay song i dont care who you are and if you like it you are straight up gay, that whole album is trash and people know it that's why no one bought it or they downloaded it, every song iv heard from this upcoming game album has been a straight banger games pain dope boys my life letter to the king angel and camera phone (it was a softer song, no homo, but it was tight) and how do you even have the album? and why did you bother making a review? if you hate game so much why don't you boycott the shit and not listen to it? i think you really must love game if you took all that time....
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Worst album ever was T.O.S... lol this album was sick but it should of been more dark.. T.O.S. sold like 4 albums and thats cuz Tony Yayo lost his copy and had to go and buy it agian....
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lol funny review...
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Ay.. Hannah Montana >> TOS
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