[via SOHH]
As much as I hate artists with unnecessary definitive articles (I have a feud going on with The Juan Maclean, though he doesn't know about it), I always respect good trash talk. Even though Jay-Z's new one drops a week after The Game's The Doctor's Advocate (November 14th and 21st), the MC from Compton tells the lyricist from Marcy Projects he should push his album back. As The Game eloquently puts it:
"It's sort of like poker. When you know you got a royal flush it doesn't even matter what the rest of the players got, cause once I lay these cards out the fucking game is over and that's just how it is."
Well played, and props for avoiding the quickly played out Jordan coming out of retirement metaphors. Actually, he starts the interview with a Jordan metaphor and later kicks a ghetto philosophy based on rims. It's a little difficult to follow, like any good philosophy, but presumably once he actually makes as many classic albums as Jay-Z, he'll have a big rig rolling on chrome. That's about 18 dubs, if you're counting.