The Game slams today’s hip-hop as “trash,” claiming he is among the best

The Compton rapper thinks anyone who doesn’t consider him a great lyricist is “lying to themselves.”

The LA spitter has always been outspoken and confident, and his latest comments continue to prove this.

The Game describes current hip-hop as “trash” and asserts that he is among the best rappers in the world:

In a recent episode of Big Boy's Neighborhood, the Compton MC described today’s rap music as “trash” and proclaimed himself “one of the best rappers on Earth” while discussing the state of rap.

“Everyone knows this. And anyone that disagrees with that is, you know, they lying to themselves,” he said (around the 31-minute mark in the video below). “Then bring up my discography and everything that I’ve done for hip-hop, L.A., the West Coast. Like, I carried a lot and I asked for nothing.”

The Game then listed his West Coast rap Mount Rushmore, including Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube,, and Dr. Dre.

Elsewhere in the interview, he talked about witnessing Kendrick Lamar early in his career and mentioned that he intended to sign the 22-time Grammy winner before he joined Top Dawg Entertainment.

“I was always asking [TDE founder] Top, 'Yo, let me get Dot,'" he recalled. “He was like, 'No.' He knew what he was, I knew what he was.”

“Let me get him as an artist because I already knew. I knew what he was gonna be and nobody didn't understand it yet except everybody that was around Top and TDE, they knew. And I knew.”

The Game also reminisced about the 2011 concert where the West Coast rap torch was passed to Kendrick, noting that he was present "for the movement."

2Teez, the head of security for TDE, has challenged his assertions about wanting to sign Kendrick Lamar, directly addressing The Game in the comments section of an Instagram post discussing the matter.,"Blood faking he never wanted to sign Kendrick!!!!!" he wrote.

Meanwhile, TDE engineer MixedByAli reacted to Akademiks' repost of the clip with laughing emojis, indicating that he likely doesn't take The Game’s story seriously either.