|
LAX | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Game
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy Used: $3.95
You Save: $10.03 (72%)
New (57) Used (26) from $3.95
Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 2314
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001146502
UPC: 602517745292
EAN: 0602517745292
ASIN: B000ZK42QI
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Excellent Mint Condition > Never used > First Class Shipping within 1-3 days in bubble pack
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Intro (Feat DMX) | | • | LAX Files | | • | State of Emergency (Feat. Ice Cube) | | • | Bulletproof Diaries (Feat. Raekwon) | | • | My Life (Feat. Lil Wayne) | | • | Money | | • | Cali Sunshine (Feat. Bilal) | | • | Ya Heard (Feat. Ludacris) | | • | Hard Liquor (Interlude) | | • | House Of Pain | | • | Gentleman's Affair (Feat. Ne-Yo) | | • | Let Us Live (Feat. Chrisette Michelle) | | • | Touchdown (Feat. Raheem DaVaughn) | | • | Angel (Feat. Common) | | • | Never Can Say Goodbye (Feat. Latoya Williams) | | • | Dope Boys (Feat. Travis Barker) | | • | Game's Pain (Feat. Keyshia Cole) | | • | Letter to the King (Feat. Nas) | | • | Outro (Feat DMX) |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
The Game returns with his third and supposedly last CD LAX. Keisha Cole is featured on the lead off track 'Game's Pain.' Other guests include Ice Cube, Raekwon, Ludacris, Bilal and Raheem DeVaughn, appearing on "State of Emergency," "Bulletproof Diaries," "Cali Sunshine" and "Touchdown," respectively. Cool & Dre, Irv Gotti, Nottz, J.R. Rotem, Scott Storch, DJ Toomp, Hi-Tek and Kanye West lend their production efforts to the album.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 The Game steps out of the shadow of Dr. Dre, steps free of the Aftermath of his feuds August 27, 2008
Akash (Washington, DC)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
The genesis of Game's career was both a blessing and a curse. He himself raps that few legacies have started "hotter than the beginning of my career/ with 50, Dre and Em there." However the helping hand would also bring persistent doubts, claims that Game's success is replicable for any rhymer who has an album of Dr. Dre's beats, 50 Cent's hooks and a track blessed by Eminem. While Doctor's Advocate was a step in the right direction, L.A.X. proves once and for all that The Game's success is defined solely by his skill.
On L.A.X. Game successfully demonstrates that he is the most legitimately hardcore rapper in mainstream hip-hop today. On "L.A.X. Files" he questions even his audience's credibility, "(expletive) think cause they watched Menace a couple of times/ Seen Cube in Boyz N the Hood and pressed rewind/ That you could survive when a real Crip run up on your car and flex the nine." The trifecta of "State of Emergency" featuring Ice Cube, " Bulletproof Diaries" with Raekwon and "Cali Sunshine" featuring Bilal are perhaps the three most classically "West coast" tracks that will be recorded in 2008. Game then demonstrates his versatility on laid back cuts including "Gentleman's Affair," "Touchdown" and "Angel," the last of which represents G.O.O.D. music at its finest with production by Kanye West and a verse from Common.
L.A.X. also proves that The Game may be the best actor in rap today. We've seen this ability through his simulated inebriation on both the title track from "Doctor's Advocate" and The Documentary's "Start From Scratch," and there was another allusion to this ability when Game presented an uncanny emulation of his mentor on "Lookin' at You." Game takes it to another level on L.A.X. He acknowledges his perfect rendition of Nas' flow on "Let Us Live," rapping "Voice raspy, who I sound like? Don't ask me/ That's my (expletive) we classy." On "Never Can Say Goodbye," he presents a verse each through the eyes of Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E and most jarringly, The Notorious B.I.G., who Game ebodies in both flow and lyrics. Game even takes a page out of Jay-Z's book on "Dope Boys," an unabashed (and inferior) interpretation of Hov's "Roc Boys."
There are weak points, notably "Letter to the King" on which Game's lack of nuance and sincerity are obvious, as is Nas' inability to "kick knowledge." However to see the strength and depth of L.A.X., one need look no further than the tracks left on the cutting room floor, any of which ("Gangsta Party" and "Cop Killa" in particular) would be the pinnacle of many of Game's contemporaries' albums. Note that I didn't even mention hit singles "My Life," or "Game's Pain," no need on an album of this strength.
LAX October 28, 2008
JW (AZ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With all of the controversy from the outset, and being dismissed from doing anything further, without "help", LAX is on the Strength.
Great CD for the money! November 20, 2008
Richard J. Jones (NY)
This is the third Game album and the third classic album he has. I gave this CD 5 stars because every track on the CD is well written and I enjoy listening to it. The features (which include Nas and Common) are amazing. There is not one track on this CD that you will not like. He also brings back that early 90s west coast feeling on his tracks with cube and common. This is one of the best CD releases of 2008 and well worth the price.
The Game does it again November 23, 2008
Eugene Pownell III (wilsonville, or usa)
Another classic album form The Game, a must have for any Game fan, highly recomended
Classic Album 4.8 Stars August 26, 2008
Marvin (Silver Spring, MD)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album has a different feel from The Game's previous albums. The Game sounds less aggressive but more introspective and attempts to re-invent himself instead of talking about the same things again.
The Game becomes very creative on this album. On the track "Never Can Say GoodBye" The Game attempts to imitate the voices of Tupac, Biggie, and Eazy-E. He also imitates Nas's voice on "Let us Live". The track "Letter to the King" is a letter to MLK Jr, with Game and Nas spitting introspective meaningful lyrics. On "My Life" The Game talks about his dead friends. This album has a much less aggressive feel and tone to it compared to his previous albums. There is also much less name-dropping than his previous albums.
Best Tracks:
Angel (feat. Common)
My Life (feat. Lil' Wayne)
Letter to the King
LAX Files
Never Can Say Goodbye
Let Us Live
Money
Bulletproof Diaries
State of Emergency
Game's Pain
Overall this album is one of the best, most creative hip hop albums of this generation's hip hop. However if you're expecting The Game to be aggressive and talk about killing and gangsterism then you may be disappointed as he rarely does that on this album.
|
|
|
| |
