This is probably one of the most interesting interviews I’ve read in a minute. Complex sat down with Game to speak on the numerous R.E.D. Album delays, Brake Lights mixtape, the failure of the singles, his first week sales expectations and more.
It is interesting coz it seems as if Game is really fooling either himself or the fans.
First off, he says that the album still may drop on August 24th:
August 24th was real realistic to me until I started touring. Before I get really locked into it, when I get home on the 8th man…you know, it might still be the 24th once I talk to Jimmy Iovine. He’s overseas and he gets back when I get back so I’ma sit down with him and have a meeting and we’ll play everything I got. I think I’m missing my huge single like “My Life,” or “Hate It or Love It,” or “One Blood.” And I think I really need to find that.
He then goes on to claim that even if he releases his album tomorrow with no real promotion, he’s gonna do 300k the first week:
My last album did like 270,000 the first week and it really had no buzz and it wasn’t pushed and we just threw it out. And “My Life” is what carried it over to platinum. I don’t want that to happen with this album. I think that if I threw my album out tomorrow, I got 300,000 fans that’ll go get my album first week. And that’s not shabby during this day and age. But I really wanna push for gold and try to top The Documentary’s numbers.
But I don’t think I can do that without a huge radio record. And I don’t want it to be so radio that it’s not street. Like I’m looking for a cross between “One Blood” and “Hate It or Love It.” And I think that it wouldn’t be successful or right for me if I put my album out before that. I’d be cheating myself and cheating my fans. So when I get back, I’ll have a meeting with the label and we’ll see what they say. I had a meeting with Steve Berman, the man under Jimmy Iovine, before I left, at a restaurant in Beverly Hills. He assured me that the label would not drop the ball with this album. They just want a hit record. Not saying that I don’t have one, but I wanna go in and play everything I got. ’Cause if I get a huge record out I’ll fuck around and get Lil Weezy the first week.
Regarding his singles failing time and again, he says none of them were actual singles and most of them are not going to turn up on the final track list. Here’s what he as to say:
It was Pharrell’s idea to just throw a bunch of songs out. You know I’m saying like, we threw a bunch of shit out just to you know test the waters. That’s it, man.
Go to Complex to read the entire interview. I don’t think Game is in the right state of mind and he just stole the look on my face in that picture above.
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