The Game trolled for allegedly not being invited to Kendrick Lamar’s Pop-Up concert featuring several L.A. Artists.
The Compton rapper discusses his absence from the Kendrick Lamar 'Pop Out' concert.
The Game addresses absence from Kendrick's ‘Pop Out’ show and where he stands with K. Dot and Drake.
On Wednesday night (June 19), Kendrick Lamar brought out special guests like — Dr. Dre, Jay Rock, AB-Soul, Tyler, The Creator, YG and more performed at Kendrick Lamar's The Pop Out - Ken & Friends. However, The Game was nowhere to be found despite his LA roots. This prompted social media users to speculate about whether or not he received an invite, and otherwise wonder why he decided not to attend.
Hip-Hop fans took to "Twitter X" platform trolling the rapper by saying, he wasn't invited based on him appearing to side with Drake during the Canadian rapper and Kendrick's rap duel, which started on March 22 after Kedrick dissed Drake on Metro Boomin and Future's "Like That." The former G-Unit rapper, who collaborated with Drizzy on songs like "100" and "Good Girls Go Bad," suggested that he was Team Drake on April 16 after hopping on Instagram and posting a since-deleted video of himself listening to Drizzy's 2015 single "Energy." As the caption, Game quoted a lyric to Drake's song, "I got rap ni**as that I gotta act like I like."
On Thursday (June 20), Game took to his Instagram account. He shared a 17-minute-long video, the “Hate It or Love It” rapper set the record straight on his feelings about the event.
The Game stated the show was “amazing” for the West Coast, giving K. Dot, his props for bringing together people from all backgrounds, sets, and neighborhoods onto one stage.
“I ain’t have to be there to think that the shit was motherfucking cool,” Game said.
“That n***a learned that shit on the way up,” he clarified. He compared Lamar’s act of bringing people together to the mentorship Snoop Dogg gave The Game, and subsequently the mentorship he then gave Kendrick. The two previously collaborated on "The City," "On Me," and "See No Evil."
The Game also claims Top Dawg offered him partial ownership of TDE, but he declined.
As for the speculation that he wasn't invited because he “sided” with Drake by posting “Energy” on his Instagram Story in the midst of the feud between Drizzy and Kendrick, Game called the Canadian MC his “brother" and Kendrick his "homie." "As far as my relationship with Drake, n***a? N***a, Drake is my brother, n***a. ... And my loyalty is with motherfuckers that's loyal to me," he said. Game and Drake memorably linked on "100" back in 2015, which was seen by some as another moment where Drizzy took aim at Lamar.
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