The Game Biography

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assailants coming to his apartment late at night. Though the incident almost cost the young man his dear life as he laid in coma for two days at the hospital, it on the other hand appeared to be a blessing in disguise since this became the turning point for him to start anew. "That was the biggest learning experience ever in my life," he recalled. "This sounds crazy but I appreciate that happening to me, because I'd probably be dead if it didn't. Anybody who gets shot and survives feels lucky."

Came to a decision to be a rapper, Taylor then spent much of his time listening to hip-hop music while recovering. "I listened to so much music that it started to consume me," so he said. "I would jot down Jay-Z's rhymes, Snoop Dogg's rhymes, Ice Cube's rhymes, and kind of fix them so that they pertained a little bit more to me."In the course of five months, the guy persistently studied the artists' albums and crafted his free-styling skills until he felt confident enough to make his first effort, a mixtape called "You Know What It Is Vol. 1" via The Black Wall Street Records that he founded ...

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with Big Fase. To his delight, the work ultimately found its way into the hands of Dr. Dre who instantly signed him in under his Aftermath Entertainment.

Afterwards adopted the nickname his late grandmother had given him due to his eagerness to always 'game' for any sports activity as his moniker, The Game was then plotted to work together with 50 Cent's G-Unit to create a growing buzz around both of them. Within a short time, he wonderfully saw himself participating in the band's mixtapes while also getting featured in their music video of "Wanna Get to Know You" as well as Cent's "In Da Club" before releasing his U.S debut single "Westside Story" in September 2004. Previously welcomed the birth of his son, Harlem Caron Taylor, by summer 2003, he smoothly followed it up with his first major album "The Documentary" released on January 18, 2005.

Featuring the likes of Eminem, Faith Evans, Busta Rhymes, and Mary J. Blige, the record really did not find any difficulty to instantly soar as the new phenomenon in the hip-hop scene as it amazingly sold over 586,000 units in its first week to secure the top spot of The Billboard 200. In ...