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Album Of The Week: The Game - Blood Moon: Year of The Wolf
RnB/Hip Hop | Tuesday 11th November 2014 | Lee
It’s strange to think that we’re now approaching the tenth anniversary since The Game dropped his G-Unit Records debut The Documentary. It was an album with more chart bangers than you can shake a stick at, featuring the funk of ‘How We Do’, the lyrical intensity of ‘Dreams’ and the irrepressible ‘Hate It Or Love It’. Even if the West Coast rapper isn’t tearing up the charts as much, there remains a fire in his work and the power of his deep voice still provides a relevant attitude to the evolution of contemporary hip-hop.
Blood Moon: Year of The Wolf, the rapper’s sixth studio release, immediately identifies everything The Game’s fans love him for. He’s an aggressive individual, delivering a line such as “I’m the black Marshall Mathers” on the explosive opener ‘Bigger Than Me’, showing the rapper’s persistent confidence in himself in the track’s dynamic hook. Not many can back up statements of superiority over 2pac, Nas or The Notorious B.I.G., but The Game gets pretty close.
Next up is ‘F.U.N’, another track which explores the rapper’s angst-ridden intensity. He’s fired up, ready to explode and patently doesn’t care what anyone thinks. It's an admirable quality in this day-and-age where artists are often far too concerned with how their music will be received in the mainstream. With just these two thunderous tracks, The Game show himself to be an individual not fussed by the public's perception of him, analyzing the rap industry with the brutal honesty for which so many appreciate him.
Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf might not eclipse the acclaim of The Documentary or Doctor’s Advocate, but it certainly has enough variety, aggression and supreme bars for hip-hop heads to keep spinning it all year.
