The Game calls out Interscope records, says leaving the label was the best decision.
The Game is going for everyone’s throat as the rapper called out his former label Interscope and says leaving it was the best decision of his life. The Game was signed to the Aftermath Entertainment after being discovered by Dr. Dre after his independent debut album “Untold Story” in 2004. Aftermath Entertainment operates as a subsidiary of, and is distributed through, Interscope Records.
The Compton rapper left the label after a dispute with G-Unit, 50 Cent, and went on to sign with Geffen, another label under Universal’s Interscope Geffen A&M unit, to terminate his contractual obligations with G-Unit in the summer of 2006.
He was in part because he had put Dre in an impossible situation. In 2002, the kingmaking super-producer signed the Game to his Aftermath record label and served as executive producer on his 2.4 million-selling first album from 2005. “The Documentary” effectively elevated him to celebrity status. The trouble started when the Game got into an acrimonious “beef” with Aftermath labelmate and fellow Dre protege 50 Cent – who has claimed he wrote a few tracks on The Documentary” and pursued a noxious bitter feud with the Game via mix-tape diss tracks – despite Dre’s pleas that they settle their differences.
He only released one album through Aftermath / Interscope, his major-label debut project “The Documentary” which debuted on #1 on Billboard 200 after selling 586,000 units in its first week.
“F**k INTERSCOPE. I meant it when I said it 17 years ago & I mean it today !!!! They’re runnin a modern day slave trade & they steal from every single artist. Best decision of my life was parting ways. #StayIndependent,” he wrote in his tweet.
The Game is now working on his next studio album “Drillmatic”, and kicked off the campaign with Kanye West collaboration called “Eazy“. Check out the track below.
