The Game talks about not being a part of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Earlier this year, the Super Bowl Halftime show was a hip-hop-centric event, as Dr. Dre teamed up with 50 Cent, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige for a historic performance. While the Rap fraternity celebrated the iconic event, The Game seemed a little upset over not being included in the performance. In the upcoming interview on “I Am Athlete” with Brandon Marshall, Pacman Jones and Nick “ Swaggy P” Young, the Compton emcee shares more light on the whole thing.
“The real reason I wasn’t on the Super Bowl [Halftime Show] is because I’m not a ‘safe’ artist,’” he explained in tease of the interview. “You don’t know what the Game gon’ do when he get up there. So, it’s just like, ‘He not safe,’ so they went with the safe artists.”
He continues, “We, on the West Coast, are the only motherf**kers who have this crab-in-a-barrel mentality, where we wanna keep ni**as down. Snoop Dogg is icon. Dre is icon. Em is an icon, but Em is not from L.A. 50 is not from L.A. I’m not taking away from the fact that they’re were on the Super Bowl, but L.A. [artists] wouldn’t have been in the Detroit Super Bowl or New York Super Bowl. It just wouldn’t have happened… L.A., L.A., L.A. all around the Super Bowl and I didn’t get the call.” The rapper was then asked about how it made him feel, “I was hurt by that,” he responded.
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“I talk to Dre often. I just know if I was Dre and he was Game, he would’ve been up there. That’s just it. It’s L.A. I am L.A. I’m in the streets… So, yeah, I was hurt. Now am I bothered by it today? I’m not bothered by it today,” he added.
However, Game has not been deterred by his omission. On July 1st, the rapper will release Drillmatic, a new 30-song album. The proud Los Angeles resident tweeted on Friday (June 10) that the release date of his new album, Drillmatic, has been moved back to July 1. The project was supposed to drop on June 17 with a staggering 30 new tunes.
Check out the interview trailer below.
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