The Game’s LAX was among the most anticipated releases of this month along with Ice Cube’s Raw Footage and GZA’s Pro Tools. This is his third studio album and to tell you the truth I was expecting more.
The Game does a lot less name dropping this album which is a plus. Although his feud with 50 Cent and Many, Many, others were quite entertaining his bitching and whining about getting kicked out of G-Unit got annoying. After awhile most of us didn’t even know why it all started.
Anyway, the album’s production is great. The Game has nice beats on nearly every track and I thought the incorporation of vocal artists like Ne-yo, Raheem Devaughn, Latoya Williams, and Keisha Cole were interesting and brought some nice choruses to some tracks. 6 of the songs had singing artists featured and more contained samples of RnB artists.
The Game also has some interesting rappers featuring on the album like Common, Ice Cube, Raekwon, Nas, Ludacris, and another who fits into neither category, Travis Barker.
Overall though I thought this was a pretty mediocre album. There are about 4-5 good tracks on the album that are worth listening to more than once. The others could be classifiable as skips.
The Game doesn’t really change his lyrical content at all in this albums from his previous works which is a disappointment for me. Although there is no problem with rapping about California, money, girls, cars, and how good you are, after awhile unless the wordplay and storytelling is good it gets annoying and repetitive.
And although he has some okay punchlines “I flow like oregano” from the song House Of Pain completely killed it for me.
1. This is a recycled line.
2. It sucks.
3. It makes no sense…. Since when does Oregano flow?
The standout tracks for me were Cali Sunshine, which has a nice chorus, laidback rhymes, and a cool electronic beat. Dope Boys, which is a club-banger for sure, and State Of Emergency in which The Game and Ice Cube deliver the catchy California-dedicated track of the album.
This one gets 3 mailboxes from The Mailman.
T Dub-The Mailman
The Hip Hop Post 
August 26, 2008 at 12:28 am
Good review.. I agree that a lot of it was trash, lyrics were weak.. I loved that song “Never Can Say Goodbye” though.. where he played the roles of Pac, Big and Eazy..
August 26, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Damn many albums being release this year are kinda trashy i agree on the review. but i hope Detox isnt near garbage