Contributed By: DeadPunx
Created On: Monday, 01 September 2008
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 L.A.X. You do recall him right? The person who was on the verge of being employee of the month, and then reincarnated himself into the most recognized disgruntle employee in the history of Hip-Hop. Since selling over five million copies of his debut album The Documentary, his numbers dwindled down dramatically and a Dr. Dre/50 Cent-less Doctor’s Advocate barely scraped it’s way to over a million in sales. Stating that L.A.X. (Life And Times) will be his last proj ect, the man who many think are responsible for raising the West Coast out of the ashes pulled out all the stops for his last hoorah—as he (supposedly) bows out of a game (no pun intended) that’s handed him his high’s and most definitely his low’s.
On Ice Cube’s new album Raw Footage, The Game lent his young blood touch on a song called ‘Get Use To It,’ and Cube returns the favor by adding some wisdom on ‘State Of Emergency’ (also produced by J. R. Rotem). The Game reaches all the way to the slums of Shaolin and recruits Raekwon for ‘Bulletproof Diary.’ This time veteran producer Jelly Roll is up to bat, and he doesn’t disappoint allowing Raekwon to get reacquainted with a beat, "I’m a New York dinosaur, Staten Island artifact/Hip-Hop’s never dead, the Cuban gave it heart attacks.
The Game gets Lil’ Wayne to take care of the hook on ‘My Life’ and Weezy does his best Roger Troutman/T-Pain impression by bringing the overused synthetic vocal tone into play; while The Game grabs Cool & Dre to provide the sounds. The Miami duo double-up as they’re also responsible for ‘Money.’ They use a Betty Wright voice sample of her echoing the word money throughout the song, and The Game drops clever punch lines like, “I used to only sell 8’s like that Laker n*gga/now I’m moving 24’s, like I play at the Staple Center.” But right before the song ends, he still manages to get in a quick jab directed at his former boss, “I was through flippin’ quarters when I made my first meal/I’m about a dollar, 50 Cent ain’t real.”
There’s really not a quote-un-quote ‘bad’ song on L.A.X. (Life And Times), but it does raise the question of why have so many features? Was 50 Cent right when he said that The Game needed help on his first album? And did the lack of his and Dr. Dre’s presents on the second album lead to such an instantaneous drop in sales? Some might say he’s getting out of music and calling this his last album because it’s getting more and more difficult for him to carry a CD from front to back by his lonesome. With 12 guest appearances, the notion of him of needing people to hold his hand through an entire project doesn’t escape the mind. But in the end, only man that went from having a butterfly on his face, to the LA Dodgers logo, only to mix it in with a huge star knows the answer that.
 
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