The Game has been name-dropping since he came on the scene, and he's constantly criticized for it.
He defended he practice during an interview on Rap Radar, while also talking about his Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind album. The Game said before releasing it, he was going to issue a warning about his name-dropping.
“One thing I forgot to do with the album, when I put out the tracklisting, I was going to literally count the name-drops myself and put a disclaimer under like, ‘Just so you know, there are 377 name-drops,'" said The Game. “I think that if you listen to Hip Hop, everybody and every album, that everybody name-drops now. When I came, n*ggas wasn’t doing it in the space that they are now, but everyone name-drops. It’s wordplay, it’s lyricism, it’s metaphors and everybody has adapted to it."
“I’m the one that gets all the flak for it, but I love it," he added. "I be sayin’ n*ggas’ names. Like, I want you to know exactly who I’m talking about. Like if the car black as Akon, my n*gga, it’s black as Akon.”
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