Numerous well-known celebrities appear on The Game’s new album Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind, but it’s his explosive single “The Black Slim Shady” that will have fans buzzing.
The tune features several musicians mentioned by the West Coast MC, who definitely echoes Eminem’s breakthrough single “My Name Is.” However, the majority of the song is devoted to criticizing Em, with several allusions to the rapper’s discography. He even makes reference to his 26-year-old daughter Hailie Jade in an obvious attempt to get Eminem to respond.
“I killed Dr. Dre in my basement last night/I was wasted last night, I went ape shit last night,” Game opens the second verse, in a reference to Em’s “The Real Slim Shady.” Before getting to the third verse, he goes on a short interlude in a conversation with an Uber driver in which he interpolates Shady’s “Stan.”
“Crazy story behind it, my brother Stan, rest in peace…he gave me this hat 22 years ago…Eminem, he used to be like this rap god,” he says as the brother of Stanley Mitchell during the interlude, in which he also remarks that he “don’t really like any of his new stuff.”
“So ficky-ficky Slim Shady, please, stand up/Shoot the fade with me, I’d love to put these hands up,” the 42-year-old spits. “I could .40 Glock you, unarmed/Drop the world on your head with one arm/Dear Slim, Hailie’s with me and she’s unharmed—for now.”
Game name mentions 50 Cent in the lengthy last line while making another reference to “Stan.” (In April, he said he was more interested in going after Marshall since 50 Cent, Game’s longstanding foe, “can’t rap.”)
“You done pissed off Jimmy, Universal, and Interscope/Know I got Jimmy, Slim, 50, and Universal in a scope,” he raps. “Let’s get this all together, the picture was ripped, I fixed it/But none with me, you, and 50, let’s stitch this shit all together/You like, Slim?/I made it just for you/I even kidnapped Stan’s brother and baited him here for you/But you would just say ‘no’/Probably leave us in the blistering cold/God made you damn near perfect, he just missed your soul/You ain’t the shell of who you used to be.”