EVEYONE'S FAVOURITE NAME DROPPER GAME STARTED THE YEAR OFF WITH THE RELEASE OF HIS DOUBLE MIXTAPE "PURP & PATRON" (24/01/2011) WHICH BOASTED 29 TRACKS AND WAS CO HOSTED BY BOTH DJ SKEE & FUNKMASTER FLEX!!
ALTHOUGH IT WAS RECIEVED TO MIXED REVIEWS IT WAS A SOLID EFFORT THAT BOASTED PRODUCTION FROM THE RZA, COOL & DRE, DENAUN PORTER, DJ GREEN LANTERN, PHARRELL, NOTTZ & MOST IMPORTANTLY A REUNION WITH EARLY MENTOR DR. DRE AS WELL AS A STAR STUDDED LIST OF FEATURES RANGING FROM LIL WAYNE "SOO WU", PHARRELL & SNOOP DOGG "IN MY '64", TO KURUPT "I JUST WANNA FUCK" AND DR. DRE ALONGSIDE BUSTA RHYMES FOR "THE OCEAN".
AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH TO TIE OVER THE FANS ANTICIPATING THE MUCH HYPED & FOREVER PUSHED BACK FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM "THE R.E.D. ALBUM" HE THEN PROCEEDED TO DROP ANOTHER 2 MIXTAPES FOR THE FANS "PURP & PATRON: THE HANGOVER" AND "HOOD MORNING: (NO TYPO) CANDY CORONAS"
ONCE AGAIN BOTH MIXTAPES WERE FEATURE HEAVY MOST NOTABLY SNOOP, DR.DRE, BUSTA RHYMES, GHOSTFACE, JOELL ORTIZ & REDMAN AND WERE A MIXTURE OF CUTS THAT EITHER NEVER MADE THE "PURP & PATRON" DOUBLE MIXTAPE OR THE OVERDUE "THE R.E.D. ALBUM" THERE WAS STILL ENOUGH TO GET YOUR TEETH INTO!! THROW IN "DAYTONA 500 (500 BARS)" AND A SELECTION OF GUEST FEATURES ON OTHER ARTISTS TRACKS INCLUDING CHRIS BROWN'S "LOVE THEM GIRLS", DJ KHALED'S "SLEEP WHEN I'M GONE" & TRAVIS BARKER'S "CAN A DRUMMER GET SOME"
THE WORLD WAS SET UP NICELY FOR THE OVERDUE RELEASE OF "THE R.E.D. ALBUM"
WHILST NOT PROVING TO BE GAME'S MOST COMMERCIALLY WELL RECEIVED RELEASE TO DATE IT HAS SPAWNED 3 SINGLES THUS FAR WITH THE LIL WAYNE ASSISTED "RED NATION", "POT OF GOLD" WHICH FEATURED CHRIS BROWN AND THE EXCELLENT "MARTIANS VS GOBLINS" FEATURING LIL WAYNE ONCE AGAIN AND ODD FUTURE'S TYLER THE CREATOR. IT WAS A RETURN TO FORM AFTER THE SLIGHTLY DISSAPOINTING THIRD STUDIO ALBUM "LAX" WITH PRODUCTION BEING HANDLED BY PHARRELL, DJ KHALIL, COOL & DRE, Boi-1Da, DON CANNON & MOST EXCITINGLY DJ PREMIER WHO CRAFTED ONE OF THE ALBUM'S STAND OUT'S "BORN IN THE TRAP"
TO PUT IT SHORT GAME HAD A VERY PRODUCTIVE YEAR ON THE MIXTAPE FRONT BEFORE DELIVERING ONE OF 2011 BEST ALBUMS EVEN IF THE SALES DON'T MATCH UP TO HIS PREVIOUS RELEASES THIS IS EASILY SOME OF HIS FINEST WORK AND FOR THAT HE DESERVES TO BE ON THIS LIST!!!!
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