The Game Announces "Gangsta Grillz" Mixtape Recorded In Just Two Days

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 24: Recording artist The Game attends the radio broadcast center during the 2016 BET Experience at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live on June 24, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images for BET)
This will be The Game's first entry in DJ Drama's legendary "Gangsta Grillz" mixtape series, which he cut down from 60 tracks to the best 19.

The Game recently stopped by The Cruz Show on Real 92.3 L.A. with some very special news. Tomorrow (Friday, November 28), he will release his first-ever Gangsta Grillz mixtape with DJ Drama, a project he apparently wrote, recorded, and put together in just two days. The "Freeway's Revenge" MC spoke briefly about the process in a clip shared by the program on Instagram.

"Yeah, it's gon' be good, man," he expressed. "It's my first time doing a Gangsta Grillz. We always talked about it over the years. I went in on Friday, and I'm done. From scratch. Two days. It's major. [It took me] 48 hours. 19 songs. I recorded, like, 60 songs over the weekend. But we picked 19. [...] I'm just being Game."

The project is reportedly in collaboration with Mike N Keys, and we will hear how it sounds for ourselves very soon. Fans are quite excited for the surprise drop, as the Compton native is known to bar up over punchy instrumentals. While the short turnaround might make some fans skeptical, the quality control might just result in a gem.

The Game Songs

Beyond collaborative songs in recent years, The Game hasn't dropped a lot of material ever since his aforementioned diss track against Rick Ross last year. As such, fans are ready for a new body of work. But this also comes amid more reflective moves in hip-hop, joining the discourse as much as he's fueling it.

The Game recently ranked the best L.A. rappers after Complex made their own list. He's number five on his own list, followed in ascending order by Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. Other notable names towards the top were Kurupt, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Xzibit.

We will see if the confidence created by this upcoming Gangsta Grillz project with Mike N Keys makes Jayceon Taylor rank himself higher on this list next time around. After all, that's what any MC and fan should hope for.

As 2025 is winding down, it looks like this will be a big hip-hop release to close it out. We'll hear how it sounds soon...

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.

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