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Whistle Stopper - LAX
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List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Geffen Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517745292
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen Records
Release Date: 2008-08-26
Studio: Geffen Records
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Game proves why he is at the top of the game.
Comment: Despite the feud with fifty, and the 60 days of jail for gun possession, The Game proves on LAX that he still have enough time to deliver another slamin album. With Lil' Wayne on the first single, "My Block" The Game defintley knows who to work with to make a great club banger. If The Game can do more collobrations like this one, than The Game is going to doing alright without Fifty.
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Summary: High Dissapointed
Comment: Just not what I expected from the Game. I felt he could have done more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Getting better
Comment: Officially no more Dr. Dre and consecutive name dropping. This is the major improvement for The Game on this album (and I don't mean Dre beats). Otherwise it is a descent offering and a different sound. Some of the production is a little weak but still worth listening to. I would recommend this to any mainstream listeners that like The Game.
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Summary: average
Comment: If he wanted to do a last cd, he had to call Dr. Dre to make some beats; Dre made only masterpiece... without him he does average albums
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Summary: ....It may be time to change The Game
Comment: As soon as I heard Game on Jim Jones' remix of "Certified Gangstas", that also featured Cam'ron, I knew that his rap career had some potential. My old roomate let me hear a Game mixtape that featured "Westside Story" w/50 Cent on the hook, "Get Your Money Right" w/Dr. Dre & Jay Z and my favorite track from the mixtape "The Whole City's Behind Us" w/Ludacris & Kanye West. After liking what I heard from the mixtape, I was interested to see what his 1st solo CD would sound like.
The Documentary was released in 2005. The first single was the Dr. Dre produced "How We Do", which also featured 50 Cent. The track was a nice song for the clubs and was a good choice to be the 1st single. Cool & Dre produced the 2nd single "Hate It Or Love It", which also featured 50. The song talked about them coming up from their childhood where they never imagined they would get to the point where they were at that time. My other favorites from the CD included the 3rd single "Dreams", which was produced by Kanye West, "No More Fun And Games", which was produced by Just Blaze, "Runnin'", "Start From Scratch" w/Marsha Ambrosius from Floetry, "Where I'm From" w/Nate Dogg (Get well soon) and "Put You On The Game".
"The Documentary" remained in heavy rotation for awhile. The only thing that I didn't understand was the constant namedropping that Game had going on in various songs. Dr. Dre, Eazy E, Compton, 50 Cent, etc. were mentioned too many times on the CD. I saw the tension between Game & G Unit coming because Game didn't want to make the same alliances against rappers that 50 Cent wanted to do. So once Game was "tossed" from G Unit, the disses went back and forth. When it came time for Game to work on his sophomore album, Dr. Dre decided not to produce any tracks on it, so it was assumed that the album would flop.
Doctor's Advocate was released in 2006 and the first single "One Blood" featured Junior Reid. The all star remix featured acts such as Snoop Dogg, TI, Nas, Bun B, Pusha T of Clipse, WC, Tha Dogg Pound, etc. Since Dr. Dre's production wasn't featured on the CD, Game relied on producers such as Scott Storch, Just Blaze, will.i.am, J.R. Rotem, Kanye West, etc. to try to match the production on "The Documentary". My favorite track ended up being "Why You Hate The Game" which was produced by Just Blaze and featured Nas & Marsha Ambrosius. My other favorites included the title track, which featured Busta Rhymes, "Wouldn't Get Far" w/Kanye West, "California Vacation" w/Snoop Dogg & Xzibit and "Remedy". The CD may not have been as good as "The Documentary" but it wasn't as bad as people, 50 Cent included, thought it would be without production from the good Dr.
2 years later, The Game has released his 3rd solo effort "L.A.X." I was surprised not to see "Big Dreams" on the CD. The Cool & Dre produced track was a nice intro to this CD, but it is featured on the deluxe edition. The 1st single "Game's Pain" features Keyshia Cole and allows Game to pay homage to all the rappers who influenced him to become a rapper himself. The 2nd single "My Life" features Lil Wayne on the hook and Cool & Dre on the production. This introspective track is one of my favorites on the CD and sometimes you wonder why Game doesn't release more songs like "My Life" and less songs like "Touchdown" w/Raheem DeVaughn or "Cali Sunshine" w/Bilal.
Game should have named the CD "State Of Emergency". The track that contained Ice Cube on the hook is definitely another one of my Top 5 favorite tracks from this CD. The energy on this track is top notch and J.R. Rotem delivers with the production. "Bulletproof Diaries" features Raekwon, who is about 3 years overdue in delivering "Only Built For Cuban Linx 2". Jellyroll provides a nice, street track for Game and Raekwon to deliver quality verses to. That surprised me because usually Jellyroll is just providing party sounding tracks to Snoop Dogg or his homies all the time. My favorite track, "Let Us Live" features Chrisette Michele on the hook and Scott Storch on the production. This should be the next single, but from what I have heard it will be the Cool & Dre produced "Money". Chrisette shines on the hook and she makes a nice contribution to the track. Nas joins Game on his ode to Martin Luther King. Jr, "Letter To The King". In my opinion, when Game spends his energy on thought provoking tracks, the results turn out alot better than when he is making club tracks and tracks for the ladies. I understand that a CD must contain some type of balance, but you have to be able to maintain the quality at the same time. "Never Can Say Goodbye" pays tribute to 2 Pac on the 1st verse, Biggie on the 2nd verse and Eazy E on the 3rd verse. Latoya Williams shines on the hook, as she usually does and the track ends up working, in my opinion. "Angel" features Common, which you would think would be an odd couple but as soon as the Kanye West beat comes on Common delivers a nice verse. Game follows and the track actually ends up working. The best thing about "Money" is the Cool & Dre production, but Game still ends up making it a song that you will want to check out most of the time. "Dope Boys" features Travis Barker (Get well soon) and while the production is top notch, you just wish that Game would have came up with better lyrics in certain instances.
The problem that I have with "L.A.X." is that after making "The Documentary" and "The Doctor's Advocate", you would expect Game to release an effort that is just as good or even better than his previous releases. In my opinion, that just doesn't happen. There is less namedropping this time around, but it seems as if Game's lyrics have taken a dip. There are too many instances where Game is using tired metaphors like "That Flavor Of Love, Deelishus in my lap money". The Game is a better rapper than that and it seems that instead of improving or maintaining the lyrical level of his previous 2 releases, it seems as if he was taking the easy way out lyrically on some songs.
Overall, I still think that is a release worth checking out. However, if you have high expectations, you may want to lower them immediately. There are songs such as "State Of Emergency", "Let Us Live", "Letter To The King", "Bulletproof Diaries", "Never Can Say Goodbye (Nice tribute) and "My Life" that will disprove my theory but other than those top notch tracks you're just left with some pretty good ones such as "Angel" w/Common, "Dope Boys" w/Travis Barker, and "Game's Pain" w/Keyshia Cole.
Once we get past these 9 tracks, you're left wondering what was going on with the rest of the CD. You have a bunch of tracks that are either average or mediocre compared to the standars of his 2 previous CDs.
James' Top 5
1) Let Us Live w/Chrisette Michele
2) State Of Emergency w/Ice Cube (on the hook)
3) Letter To The King w/Nas
4) Bulletproof Diaries w/Raekwon
5) My Life w/Lil Wayne (on the hook)
Honorable Mention:
Never Can Say Goodbye w/Latoya Williams
Angel w/Common
Dope Boys w/Travis Barker
Game's Pain w/Keyshia Cole
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Game returns with his third and supposedly last CD LAX. Keisha Cole is featured on the lead off track 'Game's Pain.' Other guests include Ice Cube, Raekwon, Ludacris, Bilal and Raheem DeVaughn, appearing on "State of Emergency," "Bulletproof Diaries," "Cali Sunshine" and "Touchdown," respectively. Cool & Dre, Irv Gotti, Nottz, J.R. Rotem, Scott Storch, DJ Toomp, Hi-Tek and Kanye West lend their production efforts to the album.
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