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Game finds sis, disses G-Unit
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
October 26, 2006 at 08:35:00 AM | more stories by this author

Rapper tracks down long-lost sister through MySpace and then posts a scathing diss track against 50 Cent and his crew.

The Game is making the most of his MySpace page.

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The LA rapper said this week that he has tracked down a long-lost sister through the social networking site and also posted a track on his page that amounts to a verbal assault on 50 Cent and G-Unit.

Although he counts 173,609 MySpace friends, The Game said he decided to type in the name of his sister that he hasn't seen since he was a child--and was shocked to find that she is a MySpace user as well.

"MySpace is dope, man," The Game told Complex magazine. "I recently found my sister that I haven't seen since she was three years old on MySpace. [I] typed in her name, and the s*** pops up."

But it's not all virtual hugs and kisses from the Game. Following the release of this week's US album sales numbers from Nielsen Soundscan, the rapper posted a G-Unit diss track on his MySpace page. Set to the beat of Jay-Z's "Kingdom Come," the song begins with the Game listing the top 10 US album sales, noting that G-Unit member Lloyd Banks' album Rotten Apple slipped to No. 16 in just its second week of sales after debuting at No. 3.

"Banks what you wearing all that blue for, you know Snoop Dogg?/ Fake King of New York you ain't Jay-Z you RuPaul," Game raps.

He then sets his sights on G-Unit's Young Buck: "You ni**** fightin' over air time it's my fault that he pushed your album back farther than Clyde Drexler's hair line / You got money in the bank? I think you're broke / What you gonna do when 50 stop paying your car notes?"

The Game's sophomore album, Doctor's Advocate, hits stores November 14.

In related news, Ras Kass' latest diss track of the Game has drawn the ire of the late Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin's manager John Stainton. In the track, Ras raps, "You're the waste of LA, you the Crocodile Hunter, I am the stingray."

Upon being told of the song, Stainton told the Sydney Morning Herald, "I just find it a bit sad that people have to stoop to that. It is a bit disappointing. I can't understand the point to it. There are other references they can make that will put the point across. I just think it a pity that people do have to use Steve or anyone who has died in tragic circumstances as a form of entertainment."

Ras Kass then wrote a letter to the paper, saying, "Every person should be treated with an equal brush stroke, or no one should, and everything must be considered in context. I am a hip-hop artist. Hip-hop is like any other art form; nothing is sacred, nothing is off limits. As such, I have used historical events and current events as metaphors to express a greater perspective to certain ideas and points."

"At other times, I myself, have been referenced--be it in a positive or negative light," he continued. "That is part of the creative process and the nature of what rap music is. I in no way have, or have had, any ill will towards the late Steve Irwin."

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10 Comments

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The game is the best there is, only rapper that stays true to his neighborrrhoood
Posted 05/30/2007 3:53am
Great story...
Posted 03/01/2007 6:19pm
The game iz ok but he should use his own beatz and rap bout anything other than dissing fifty out on his own beatz all tha time... stop snitchn & stop lying woz wack and a waste of thirty bucks!
Posted 01/20/2007 4:00am
Game is trying to get some buzz... so sad!
Posted 10/30/2006 7:59am
Game really needs to stop fighting with 50 and G-Unit so much.
Posted 10/29/2006 10:54am
Nasty Game... r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r... He make me feel sick...
Posted 10/29/2006 5:49am
As much i as i love Game's work, he needs to stop dissing G-Unit
It ain't right
Posted 10/27/2006 1:23am
game name drops way 2 much
Posted 10/26/2006 9:06pm
Fiddy and the Game are probably the two most overrated rappers in the long, sad history of overrated rappers. And if G-Unit's a rap supergroup, I'm a double-jointed circus freak.
Posted 10/26/2006 2:31pm
Sounds like Ras Kass has seen one too many South Park episodes. He's right, either everything is alright to talk about, or nothing is. This (when most recently recited by Kyle in South Park) didn't involve the slander of either the recently deceased, or any generally good person. This isn't poetry. There was no greater context. He simply tried to say - without saying - that he was going to kill the Game. It was a cut and dry reference, had little to do with hip-hop, a real rhyme or bar, and artistically void.
Posted 10/26/2006 12:09pm
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