"It's a hundred different messages you can take from the song," Game said on Monday good afternoon, cruising through Houston on his way to a radio station. "It's called 'My Life,' so tune in." The video for the song, from his forthcoming LP L.A.X.,premieres on "FNMTV" Friday (starting at 8 p.m. ET).
"And I ain't no sermoniser, but here's my Erick Sermon," he raps on the phonograph record. "So eat this black music, and tell me how it tastes now/ And f Jesse Jackson 'cause it ain't nigh race now."
Later he adds "Walk through the william Henry Gates of underworld, see my Impala parked in movement with the high beams on/ Me and the devil sharin' chronic blunts/ Listening to The Chronic album/ Playin' backwards, shootin' at pictures of Don Imus for target practice."
It's very provocative � and he goes after Jackson even harder on a different raceway from the album, "Letter to the King," that leaked on Thursday (August 14).
The song � a duet with Nas � has bars that ar lyrically amazing, and will probably be the pair's most talked-about collaboration in time. Of course, the "King" the duette refers to is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At times, the deuce talk directly to the late civil-rights leader as if he were smooth alive; at others, they ponder aloud about what could have been.
"If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?" Game raps on the third verse. "I know Obama would, just would Hillary take share?/ I feel the pain of Nelson Mandela/ 'Cause when it rains it pours, I motive Rihanna's umbrella/ For Coretta Scott [King's] teardrops/ When she got the telephone call that the future just took a f---ing headshot."
If you don't remember anything else about the song, Game's controversial last line volition stay with you.
"I curiosity why Jesse Jackson ain't catch him before his body dropped," he asks. "Would he give me the answer?/ Probably not."
At press time, Game had non responded to MTV News' requests for comment on why he's going after Jackson � a longtime King associate, who was present at his character assassination in 1968 � so hard, only he did speak with us at length near L.A.X. in Houston earlier this week.
Several other noteworthy tracks from the record album hit the Net on Thursday (August 14), including "Angel," which features graeco-Roman name-dropping from an outspoken Game piece Common guest-drops metaphors. There's also a song called "Ya Heard" that features the Compton track-slayer piquant in some rap repartee with Ludacris.
Game described the album as "just me taking flight, man. This album is gonna be real special � from beginning to end, it's gonna knock."
In some interviews Game has said that this will be his last record album, but this week he told us his ultimate goal was to be known as the "charles Herbert Best lyricist." It may take a couple more albums before he's there � or possibly just a battle with Jay-Z.
Recently on KISS-FM in Phoenix, Game admitted that he's a fan of Jay's music, but predicted that a battle 'tween the deuce of them would be one-sided � against Jigga.
"I'm young, stupid, disrespectful," Game said. "I haven't confused a beef. I killed a solid group limb by limb � consider what happened to G-Unit."
Speaking of the Unit, estranged group member Young Buck appears in the video for "My Life," which also co-stars Lil Wayne.
"Buck is in the tV for a split irregular, robbing the liquor depot!" Game smiled. "Lil Wayne came out to California � he re-routed his tour coach, made a U-turn for me, [so we could] shoot the video. I think the video is gonna do some great things."
L.A.X. is due on August 26.
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