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The Game - Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf</div>

Bigger Than Me: 2.5/5
-In the first four lines, he manages to mention Eminem, Nas, Big Pun, 50 Cent, and Jay-Z. Classic Game. Classic. The Game comes in here on a hard hitting beat with equally hard hitting beats. However, damn does he have some bad bars here. I'm not expecting lyricism, but shit hurts to listen to. Really, any lines that end in "ass *****"....nah. "Frank Ocean go ahead and fuck these fuck niggas" is also terrible. Did I mention he name drops a lot on this track? He mentions that Complex can make a list of all his name drops as a shot at them, but damn son, how about you come up with actual bars instead of just showing off your hip hop knowledge? Game comes in with a lot of energy on this track and I would love this like this one, but fuck, he's just so bad on this song. Again, I am not expecting it to sound like poetry or nothing, but I want it to be listenable. His bars here...are not. However, the beat is hot and I love the energy he brings on the track, so I do not hate it as much as I could.

F.U.N.: 3/5
-It is no longer 2005 and 50 Cent is no longer on The Game's hooks. This hook was made for 50, but sadly, no 50. Let's shed a tear for one of the greatest duos. Thanks for "Hate It Or Love It" and "How We Do", brahs. The Game does better on this one and keeps the energy from the last track. In particular, I love the way he ends the first verse, "Watch how I'm driving, can't let the double cup spill on me / Same block and stop snitchin', mother fuckers still on me / G-Unit had a reunion". His flow and delivery of those lines is great. Also have to say I was not expecting horrorcore with lines like, "I tie up your wife, pull out my dick jack it off, kiss the knife / Before I cut her, take my jacket off, fuck her then hit the lights", which is like The Game trying to emulate Eminem or something at this point (I know Em isn't the king of horrorcore, but let's be real here, The Game's choking on his dick). This one is pretty weak too, but again, not horrid thanks to The Game's great flow and delivery here.

Really (ft. Yo Gotti, 2 Chainz, Soulja Boy, & T.I.): 4.25/5
-Ah, this is more like it. The Game is known for his game drops first and foremost, but right after that is his love of features. Boy oh boy does my man love his features. This one is a small track compared to some of his usual stuff. Just four features? Rookie shit. I really like 2 Chainz on this one. The beat was really just made for him and he murders it. T.I. also does well here with his flow that would make a cookbook riveting to listen to. In particular, I really dug his delivery of the lines, "And no disrespect, boy, you violate me, we gon' handle that / Blow your ass off the map". The Game, however, really kills this one. Like, damn. "Niggas ain't gon' kill shit / I'm ridin' 'round, 7 pounds, *****, Will Smith / It's a whole heck of y'all and a whole deck of cards / This shit right here you can't deal with / Two ice cubes and some cognac / Spent some time in twin towers, I ain't goin' back / Spent my commissary on some M&M's thinkin' I was Eminem / Runnin' Aftermath in all black / I'll slaughter your house with 5 9's". He's almost screaming at times and you can feel his passion here." The closing bars here...also dope, "Like Nasir and Hov when I'm 40 years old / I will still be the pilot that light up the stove / And be cookin' that crack 'til the Doctor come back / And tell niggas that Detox come out this October / Like Ol' Dirty Bastard, I'm finally sober / And verses like this'll get me a new Rover / Get you a new home and it's in a casket / Your funeral boring, I'm glad that it's over". When I first saw this track on the track listing, I expected the worse, but damn is it ever dope thanks to The Game going absolutely the fuck in.

Fuck Yo Feelings (ft. Lil Wayne & Chris Brown): 1.5/5
-Yes, let's autotune the hell out of The Game's vocals. Good idea, guys. Definitely trying to be a banger with a beat like this and the dumb lyrics, this is simply not The Game's wheelhouse. Also hate the autotune on Chris Brown and then on Lil Wayne's hook. Just really, autotuned to hell. Could have been a dope banger that became a guilty pleasure to me, but oh man the autotune.

On One (ft. King Marie & Ty Dolla Sign): 1.25/5
-"(Please), bae trippin', I don't know what the hell wrong / Bae dippin' she on some shit". Did he really just use "bae" in a song? Oh man have times changed. Time machine me, please. The Game's verse is more like an intro since he just sets the table for King Marie and Ty Dolla Sign here. I really like King Marie's vocals on this track, but sadly Ty Dolla Sign is horrid with bars like, "Fuck her in the room with the speakers loud, yeah / She give me head on the highway / She say her favorite position is sideways, ooh." The fuck brah, nobody gives a shit. Though, I do love the "cinnamon apple" quote from the popular vine video. Hilarious shit, but that does not save this one from being dreadful.

Married To The Game (ft. French Montana, Dubb, & Sam Hook): 1.5/5
-No Game, Dubb, and French, motherfucker does not rhyme with motherfucker. Though, it can make for hot bars. Sure, The Game is talking about literally nothing (literally nothing), but I do enjoy his verse. It is certainly nothing that will be enshrined as the best verse ever, but I fucks with it. French Montana is trash, though. Dubb...also weak as fuck. I cannot in good faith give this one a good rating. The beat is trash, just not interesting at all and really lacks the quality I am looking for in a banger. The hook is fire, sure, but that is not a saving grace here.

The Purge (ft. Stacy Barthe): 4.75/5
-Man is Stacy Barthe's contribution to this track ever amazing. Holy cow, beautiful voice and beautiful vocals. Wowowowow. "Light a blunt, throw on Nas, collect my thoughts / Blow the candles out as I contemplate in the dark / Dumpin' ashes on the fuckin' Time magazine / Tryna burn a hole between Israel and Palestine / All this world news, all these dead bodies / All these kids dying, the talk of illuminati", "You give a kid 30 cent and think you sponsor somethin'? / I feed a village by myself ***** Compton comin'", and "Me and my mercenaries, middle of South Sudan / Carryin' babies bodies, long as I got two hands / Long as I got two feet, millions and my crew deep / We purge for the families, they deaths ain't in vein now" are dope, and the bars, "Crash my ass, niggas know who shot that plane down / 298 innocent lives severed / Flyin' on Aaliyah's wings all the way to heaven" are just touching as fuck. The way this album was going, I was no expecting a track like this to pop up. Everybody let a manly tear drop from your eye here as Game laments the death of the innocent and wishes he could kill all wrong doers. Really touching shit from The Game and I truly was not expecting this one. Great song.

Trouble On My Mind (ft. Dubb & Jake&Papa): 4/5
-Do not like the hook here, but on the positive side of things, Dubb is dope here. "Sixteen with it, ho, one in the chamber / Mask on my face so I remain a stranger" and "Bloody rag wrapped around my motherfucking tech / Snoop "Murder Was The Case" what was playing in the deck" are delivered perfectly and he has a great flow throughout the track. Impressed by Dubb, who I had never heard of. I do not know why The Game decided to give him a solo track, but whatever.

Cellphone (ft. Dubb): 2.25/5
-I really like the beat here, pretty laid back and chill. However, The Game's stuff does not really match up with it at all. He does not flow very well over the beat, but Dubb certainly does much better here than The Game. Not awesome from him, but terrible. The hook is pretty bad as well on this one. Overall, not much to say, other than: eh. This isn't dreadful, but it does suck pretty bad.

Best Head Ever (ft. Tyga & Eric Bellinger): .5/5
-Ok, this one has the weirdest skit intro ever. Bar fucking none. Like, what the living fuck. The hook is dreadful here from Tyga. His verse, however, is not horrendous. In particular, really dug his flow on the line, "Or ride dolo and get no dough, you know what". Tyga brings very little to the table, but his flow is nice. The Game's verse is gross as fuck to listen to, but I hate it because the line, "I got a bitch named Superhead, she give super head" opens it. LIKE, DUDE, YOU USED THAT ONE ALREADY. Ok, so this one is garbage already, but then it gets worse with Eric Bellinger's disturbingly sexual verse and then the autotune on his voice. Shot him and put him out of his misery, because he sounds like a dying animal here.

Or Nah (ft. Too Short, Problem, AV, & Eric Bellinger): 1/5
-Just going to pretend this one is not here, to be completely honest with you. Solid beat, at least and I like Eric Bellinger's contribution to the song on the hook. However, other than that, I will take a hard pass on this song.

Take That (ft. Tyga & Pharaoh Jackson): 3.25/5
-This beat is pretty interesting, I have to admit. Certainly grabbed my attention. Not overly unique, sure, but it does bump. Pharoah Jackson is fine on this one, as it is just Tyga and him on this track. He dominates much of this one and does just fine. I like his vocals, though is lyrics leave a bit to be desired at times. Though, I love his delivery on the lines, "Shake that, girl, I wanna feel your body, yeah / Take that, got a hundred grand on me / Can't fake that, girl, I'm a real OG". Tyga also does just fine on this one. Nothing horrible from him. Now, in saying that, this song is certainly not good, but it's not putrid. Thanks Tyga and Pharaoh Jackson, you managed to raise the bar a bit (woah).

Food For My Stomach (ft. Dubb & Skeme): 3.5/5
-"Spray out Caprices, drive by with the reaper / I hang out the window like I'm an AC / Bodies turn cold after losing your pulse / Turn that dude to a ghost like the homie SP". Oh, so Dubb is going in and killing this one? I'm totally ok with that. Featuring just Dubb and Skeme, Dubb fucking kills this pretty run-of-the-mill beat. Skeme also does well, in particular on his delivery of bars like, "Grab a cartrige, get to sparkin a targetin like all of my opponents / Raise these haters up off of me / Talk some cash when you talk to me / I ain’t got no love for you if you ain’t getting guwop with me / All my niggas from day one who I’m gon take to the top with me / And this shotty on me, got that boy walkin so awkwardly". I am not a huge fan of the hook or, again, the beat, but I am not overly mad at this one. Again, two guys not named The Game are saving his album a bit here at the end.

Hit Em Hard (ft. Bobby Shmurda, Freddie Gibbs, & Skeme): 4.5/5
-Heard this one before the album dropped and it banged like all then and it bangs like all hell now. "That Rolls Royce, come gift-wrapped / Them birds still come shrink-wrapped / I'm not strapped, don't think that / I'm low key with that click clack / That rat a tat tat tat tat" and "And I ain’t wearing no vest today / I do the Shmoney dance with this mac / You better do it too or get Shmurda’d" from The Game are dope. Love his flow and delivery on the whole verse, really. Also love Freddie Gibbs here as expected. He was born to be on this beat and he showed it with bars like, "Running cocaina back and forth / Copped the bag of salt / E S to the G N / I’m the boss dropped the package off / Coming for the murder, masks is off / Bitch you took a loss / Fuck the DEA we shook ‘em off / Bitch we shook ‘em off" and "You know the business, them niggas find out that you snitchin', them niggas gon' be at your throat / Everyday Halloween niggas will go trick or treatin', with two tweny-three at your door / Flippin' a check off this rappin', go back to the trap and put that in the weed and the blow like". Skeme does well here, as well, though he is outshined by both The Game and Gibbs here. Also love Bobby Shmurda on the hook throughout. Appropriately hard hitting hook for a hard hitting track. All around, yay, a good song.

Black On Black (ft. Jeezy & Kevin Gates): 4/5
-The Game on his name drop game on this verse as he name drops everybody under the sun here. Though, I do love the line, "Put ten karats on my daughter ear, fuck it / She deserved every rock I done sold out in public". Nothing really stood out to me in Jeezy's verse, but I do love his flow and delivery on it as expected. Lyrically, there is not much (again, expected), but overall, solid stuff from him there. His hook and bridge are also very good here and, honestly, make the song for me. Kevin Gates comes in and eats the booty (he appreciates his woman, man, he been incarcerated). Though, I do love his closing bars here, "Dicks cut the water 'fore they kick a ***** door / Tried to flush it down the toilet but the dope just float / Tear gas from the cannon / Everybody scramblin', but I ain't never panic / Double homicide, broad day, that's my jacket / Try to bird feed, cut throat, I'mma jack you / And I take change, I'm a serve when they askin' / Come from out of town, I'mma tax, no relaxin'". All three guys do just fine here and the beat is nice, so I cannot be too mad. Overall, a good banger.

41.5/75 -> 2.77/5

An album of true high and true lows, Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf has, shockingly, beat out Blacc Hollywood by Wiz Khalifa for the worst album I listened to all year. I honestly did not expect it to, but it has. I love The Game, namely his albums The Documentary and Doctor's Advocate. Also enjoyed, to a certain extent, The R.E.D. Album and Jesus Piece. However, this one is recycling bin worthy. Hell, this is why they invented the recycling bin. "The Purge" and "Hit Em Hard" are really good songs, honestly. However, there is so much garbage here with tracks like "On One", "Married to the Game", "Best Head Ever", and "Or Nah", it pulls the whole album down. Sad part is, the only reason this album is not lower is the inclusion of some tracks without The Game, which wound up being better than a majority of the tracks that did include him. Sad times for a guy who used to be one of the best West Coast guys out there.