The most eyebrow-raising move on The Game’s new album isn’t a verse, it’s the feature. Dropping Drake on a hook while name-dropping Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and his “Boogeyman” nickname across multiple tracks was always going to raise questions, and now The Game is in the comments trying to put them to rest.
The Game released “The Documentary III,” his 11th solo album, and listeners started flagging what they heard as subtle shots at fellow Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar almost immediately.
The critique spread quickly after Instagram account @obzervetv shared a callout from user @tyleravilez, who laid into The Game directly and didn’t hold back.
Tyler’s argument was rooted in West Coast loyalty. “As an L.A. native, we’re supposed to be sticking together, we’re supposed to be showing that we are a unit, and that if you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us,” he said, adding that The Game should be stepping into an elder statesman role rather than stirring up tension.
The Game jumped into the comments himself and shut it down in one line. “Ain’t diss nobody on that song loud fa nuthin,” he wrote, and the comment was pinned, so you know he meant for people to see it.
But the lyrics are doing a lot of talking on their own. On “Geezus,” he raps, “I say Drake the homie, y’all say it’s treason, I can’t believe it, want me to pick sides while y’all d-kride, when you’re from the west side you ain’t gotta pick sides.”
That’s a direct reference to the Kendrick and Drake beef that dominated 2024, and he’s clearly planting his flag somewhere.
Then on “No Brakes,” the track that actually features Drake, he goes further. “Me, Drake and a Draco, we the Three Amigos, n-ga said pick a side, then I’m picking homicide,” he raps, which is about as unambiguous as it gets when you consider the context of that beef.
The Kendrick references don’t stop there. On “LA Monster,” The Game raps, “I ain’t got no problem with the boogeyman, and he ain’t got a problem with me,” which is a direct nod to Lamar’s self-given “Boogeyman” persona. He also drops a line about driving a GNX, the same name as Kendrick’s Grammy-winning 2024 album, twice across the project.
So on one hand, The Game is saying there’s no diss. On the other, he’s threading Kendrick’s imagery and the Drake beef throughout multiple songs while having Drake on the album itself. Those two things are sitting in tension right now and fans are not letting it go quietly.
Fellow West Coast rapper Stat Quo added another layer to the whole situation, pointing out that the friction may trace back further than this album.
He suggested the real issue started when The Game brought Drake to Compton to film the video for their 2015 collaboration “100,” a move that apparently didn’t sit well with everyone in the community even back then.
The Game has always thrived in the middle of controversy, and this is shaping up to be no different. With “The Documentary III” still fresh and the conversation getting louder by the day, it’s hard to imagine this is the last word on it.
