They’re still planning to release The R.E.D. Album on August 24th? Where are the singles, where’s the buzz? Game spoke about his prequel to the album, the Cool-N-Dre produced Brake Lights mixtape with MTV and some features were revealed:
“I did a few collaborations,” the Compton MC said. “I got something I did with [Lil] Wayne before he left. I got something with Baby. Always gotta have them a part of anything red. Them my dudes. Waka Flocka came through to jump on the mixtape hook. I got some stuff, man.”
Dre is partial to a song Game has with Busta. “He’s got a record with Busta Rhymes called ‘Shot Down in Cold Blood,’ ” Dre described. “The beat is a beat we originally did for Kanye, for his new album. It’s got a vibe, man. Through the whole song, Busta says, ‘Shot down in cold blood.’ Every two bars he says, ‘Shot down in cold blood.’ Busta does it in a Jamaican patois voice. Game just spits a bunch of sh–, which makes the ‘shot down in cold blood’ make sense. He has a feature on there I can’t say.
“There’s a record called ‘People’ that has Mary J. Blige on it,” he continued. “That’s soulful. It’s a lot of soul-sample beats, which we’re known for, on the mixtape. There’s a lot of gangsta sh– on there. Some ‘Big Dreams,’ ‘Hate It or Love It’ type sh– is on there. You’re getting a free Game album to get you ready for this R.E.D. Album.”