On this day 20 years ago, The Game releases The Documentary

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Classic

Game a goof but his catalog can't be denied

yeah chuck catalog is one of the best

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Album is in the top 5 greatest West Coast albums for sure.

easily
most people let game personality dictate the way they view his music
documentary is one of the greatest rap albums. it could go song for song with any of the goat albums. And it could easily beat alot of the “goat” albums

 

[ADP]

This was probably the last time Dre was fully locked in from a producer standpoint. I'm talking both his actual beats on the album but also the Executive Producer side. Definitely one of the best produced albums of the 00s.

Game was still raw and became a lot better technical rapper later on. But he still had the mic presence, energy and charisma to take advantage of the perfect storm that presented itself on this project.

would prolly give that title to Bustas album but as far as more of an Aftermath release fair point

having listened and anticipated this album at the time, this def did not disappoint, i feel Dre's involvment made the album what it is, Game did his thing as well but the production is the impressive thing here, BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER BANGER...

Wouldve preferred that Dre and Snoop vocal contributions were kept for the retail release but thats more of a nitpick

RIP NATE D O GG

 

[reserved_one]

Freshman year of high school. 2005 doesn’t get mentioned enough as one of the GOAT hip hop years.

At the time, I would’ve definitely said that the album was a masterpiece. In retrospect? I’ll give it the classic stamp but it’s by far Game’s worst album lyrically. It’s mostly due to it sounding dated with all the G-Unit references and repetitive name drops (Dr Dre, Eazy, NWA).

I know that it went out to be his trademark style but I thought Game got stronger lyrically as his career went on.

The production, mixing and sequencing is A+++++++. Dr Dre really brought out his heavy artillery for Game here. Just look at the production credits….you will never see a more star studded list of producers on 1 album like this again.

My top 5 songs would have to be

Hate It Or Love It
Start From Scratch
Dreams
Westside Story
Runnin

Honorable mention

Don’t Need Your Love
Church For Thugs

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

start from scratch
like father like son
runnin
higher
hate it or love it

 

[Gthug]

Production, features and hooks(by fifty) carried this album. Alot of corny rapping and namedropping by Game

 

[A187]

classic album

thought he was gonna drop Doc 3 this month

 

[Trips]

Haven't listened to this one start to finish in years. But, I remember when it dropped and the stranglehold it hand on me in the car and at home. Or just randomly bringing it up. One of my boys was like shyt get off this album.

 

[Ashtrey]

Absolute classic. One of my favorite albums of all time. I bought the CD but my car at the time only had tape so I dubbed it onto a Memorex lol.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Production, features and hooks, carried this album.

You just described 95% of rap albums.

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

The experience in the whip hearing this straight out the plastic has not been duplicated since. One of the all time great hip-hop albums

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Outstanding album

 

[Krs2]

Production, features and hooks(by fifty) carried this album. Alot of corny rapping and namedropping by Game

Yeah this is a classic mostly because of Dre ( and timbalad too). Remind me of fat joe albums top notch production with no memorable rhymes

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

This was probably the last time Dre was fully locked in from a producer standpoint. I'm talking both his actual beats on the album but also the Executive Producer side. Definitely one of the best produced albums of the 00s.

Game was still raw and became a lot better technical rapper later on. But he still had the mic presence, energy and charisma to take advantage of the perfect storm that presented itself on this project.

let Game tell it these days, Dr. Dre did none of the beats on The Documentary

could be an emotional ghost-producer stray, but you're right, The Doc felt like the most attention to detail Dre had put in on another nikka's album up to that point in a long time.

Havoc even gave it up to Dre , citing that Dre re-created the "Don't Need Your Love" beat from scratch after Hav lost the files.

The Game was and still is dope, but those records made the album; he didn't necessarily make the records. The production, hooks and features -- the perfect storm, as you said. He was practically given a classic album.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Album is in the top 5 greatest West Coast albums for sure.

Death Certificate
AMW
AEOM
DOGGYSTYLE
CHRONIC
Makaveli
GKMC
TPAB
Straight Outta Compton
Dogg Food
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