Online Review: The Game @ The Kentish Town Forum
Artist:
The Game
Having not seen The Game in concert myself, I had been informed by various sources that the West Coast spitter’s set would mainly consist of plenty of alcohol consumption, G-Unit bashing and throwing up of W’s as well as other gang-related finger movements. And you know what? They were right.
After bland performances from support acts Strictly Business and Craze 24, N-Dubz provided an energetic performance before making way for Hurricane Game. DJ duty fell to Black Wall Street’s Kris-Stylez who loaded up Westside Story for The Game to walk out to clad in a red t-shirt, cap and bandana. It was clear as Chuck Taylor ran through a set of West Coast bangers that included Compton, Let’s Ride and the massive Higher, that The Forum’s poor sound-system really couldn’t handle the leviathan of sound that was surging through them. Mirroring this, Game mumbled his way through tracks, so that where he had switched up old pro-G-Unit lyrics it wasn’t really noticeable to the gathered few until 50 Cent’s recent single Amusement Park got the G-Unot remix of “F*ck 50, f*ck Yayo, f*ck Banks and f*ck Bucks,.” After name-checking 50, Jayceon Taylor proceeded to perform their two singles together How We Do and Hate It Or Love It.
Up until now what had been quite an uninspiring event took an interesting turn when Game appeared to down two bottles of Hennessey in one go. Unless he has some sort of stomach of steel, I highly doubt that the drinks hadn’t been diluted or tampered with. Nonetheless the influence of alcohol brought out a much more entertaining, non-mumbling, charismatic Game who followed up Put It On The Game, Wouldn’t Get Far and a tribute to Biggie and Pac with the highlight of the night; an emotional rendition of Doctor’s Advocate. A charged Chuck Taylor then revealed to the crowd that he felt that so called ‘tough people’ were actually fools who ended up dead or in prison, and that he himself had given up gangbanging and acting tough, and was trying to be a reformed role-model so that he could live out his dreams. Unsurprisingly the speech was followed up by none other than Dreams before he closed the evening’s proceedings by inviting anyone in the crowd wearing red (as well as one dude with a Bob Marley flag) up on stage as he performed One Blood.
So what did I learn? A drunk Game is a fun Game.
Words By Rajveer ‘Raj Kapone’ Kathwadia
Having not seen The Game in concert myself, I had been informed by various sources that the West Coast spitter’s set would mainly consist of plenty of alcohol consumption, G-Unit bashing and throwing up of W’s as well as other gang-related finger movements. And you know what? They were right.
After bland performances from support acts Strictly Business and Craze 24, N-Dubz provided an energetic performance before making way for Hurricane Game. DJ duty fell to Black Wall Street’s Kris-Stylez who loaded up Westside Story for The Game to walk out to clad in a red t-shirt, cap and bandana. It was clear as Chuck Taylor ran through a set of West Coast bangers that included Compton, Let’s Ride and the massive Higher, that The Forum’s poor sound-system really couldn’t handle the leviathan of sound that was surging through them. Mirroring this, Game mumbled his way through tracks, so that where he had switched up old pro-G-Unit lyrics it wasn’t really noticeable to the gathered few until 50 Cent’s recent single Amusement Park got the G-Unot remix of “F*ck 50, f*ck Yayo, f*ck Banks and f*ck Bucks,.” After name-checking 50, Jayceon Taylor proceeded to perform their two singles together How We Do and Hate It Or Love It.
Up until now what had been quite an uninspiring event took an interesting turn when Game appeared to down two bottles of Hennessey in one go. Unless he has some sort of stomach of steel, I highly doubt that the drinks hadn’t been diluted or tampered with. Nonetheless the influence of alcohol brought out a much more entertaining, non-mumbling, charismatic Game who followed up Put It On The Game, Wouldn’t Get Far and a tribute to Biggie and Pac with the highlight of the night; an emotional rendition of Doctor’s Advocate. A charged Chuck Taylor then revealed to the crowd that he felt that so called ‘tough people’ were actually fools who ended up dead or in prison, and that he himself had given up gangbanging and acting tough, and was trying to be a reformed role-model so that he could live out his dreams. Unsurprisingly the speech was followed up by none other than Dreams before he closed the evening’s proceedings by inviting anyone in the crowd wearing red (as well as one dude with a Bob Marley flag) up on stage as he performed One Blood.
So what did I learn? A drunk Game is a fun Game.
Words By Rajveer ‘Raj Kapone’ Kathwadia
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Comments
Warrior
02 Aug 2007, 13:43
02 Aug 2007, 13:43
Either dis is da 1 dey showed on MTV Base or game dus EXACTLY da same fing each time, and i dnt fink its da 1 dey showed on MTV cah da yout hu was spittin was American + it was time ago dey showed it
