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Game, The - The Documentary |
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Saturday, 22 October 2005 10:44 |
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Hate it or love it, this has been a big year for The Game. His much anticipated album, The Documentary, actually lived up to its hype and propelled him to star status. Although, he
With perfectionist Dr. Dre at the helm of his project, The Game faced two possible outcomes: drop an outstanding album like all previous Dre proteges (D.O.C., Snoop Dogg, Eminem...), or drop from Aftermath after a prolonged creative stall (Eve the first time around, Last Emperor, Hittman...). By all accounts, Game was close to be added to the latter list until 50 Cent was tapped to inject some new and fresh ideas to the project. It worked.
The influence, guidance and clout of Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, the executive producers, can be felt all over The Documentary. Dr. Dre produced a majority of the cuts and mixed even more - Dr. Dre is excellent, yet criminally overlooked when it comes to mixing, which is an important part of what makes a record sound great. For tracks he didn
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