The Making of The Game's "The Documentary"
By Insanul Ahmed, Toshitaka Kondo | Feb 10, 2011 | 12:36 pm | Permalink
By 2005, it had literally been over a decade since a new West Coast rapper had made a huge national impact. If Jayceon “The Game” Taylor was going to break the dry spell, he’d need help. Luckily for the Compton Blood with a Yonkers flow and a G-Unit affiliation, he had Dr. Dre beats, 50 Cent hooks, and an Eminem feature for his debut album, The Documentary.
In addition, with production from a diverse array of A-list beatmakers like Buckwild, Havoc, Just Blaze, Timbaland, Hi-Tek, and Cool & Dre, the album’s geographical ambiguity only increased its appeal. Game also continued G-Unit’s tradition of making gangsta-ass albums that had big pop smashes with “How We Do” and “Hate It or Love It.”
When the highly-anticipated project dropped on January 18, 2005 and the first week numbers of almost 600,000 CDs moved came back, the drought was over. Unfortunately, so was Game’s time as a member of G-Unit as him and 50 fell out shortly after. As their beef escalated and became uglier, questions started emerging about how much Dre actually produced, how much help 50 provided, and just how much Game did.
The fact remains, The Game’s The Documentary is a classic album. Six years after its release, Complex decided to speak with the album’s key contributors to try and answer everything else. Like Game once said, anything is possible if 50 fucked Vivica Chelsea Handler.
As told to Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin) and Toshitaka Kondo (@ToshitakaKondo)...
itsMe February 10th, 2011 at 01:56 PM
the album was always good...never was a classic...people seem to throw that word around for anything these days...smh
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Flamur Kaqiu April 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 AM
its good clasic and all good!
Tupac Shakur February 10th, 2011 at 02:24 PM
This album is a REAL CLASSIC. THE DOCUMENTARY >>>>>>> MBDTF Inside you, I know that you agree with me.
dave February 10th, 2011 at 02:43 PM
"I'll just say your name. I don't give a fuck." It's funny that he says this, then immediately admits that he was going at Ja Rule in that line where he never says Ja's name.
Ms.Live@5 February 10th, 2011 at 02:53 PM
I'm sorry I don't know who ya fooling with that not a classic and the word being thrown around, but that album was a certified classic, because you could bang that joint beginning to the end. The only problem with that album was Game rhymes about people and dropped names too much, which was the rookie in him shinning through on now a major project being green lit.(every freshman does it) He also did this on the second album but has since seem to drop it and has grown as a man and is taking his place in the rap wold and standing on his own. But this right here will remain a classic the introduction to The Game to main stream listing audience.
yprichb February 10th, 2011 at 03:03 PM
The album was a classic in terms of the production. Game name dropped on every damn song at least 10 times. He is such a mediocre rapper and he still name drops on just about every song. In each verse too. With beats like that, a lot of dudes could've come up. I disagree with Ms.Live@5 saying every freshman rapper does that. A lot of rappers say their own names so you can get familiar but I remember seeing articles listing all the rappers Game name dropped on that album. It's ridiculous.
blame game February 10th, 2011 at 03:04 PM
It's funny how Cool & Dre and Game have very different versions of how they met each other...Game is a liar lol
dmfslimm February 10th, 2011 at 03:55 PM
yes games first born is a classic so yall can stop lying to yourselves. listen to it right now and see if you turn it off.
maC February 10th, 2011 at 05:55 PM
TOP 5 ALBUMS IN HIP HOP HISTORY... CLASSIC SHIT
jeff February 10th, 2011 at 07:00 PM
great article! Documenatry is an all time classic!
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