The Game touted
DRILLMATIC Heart vs. Mind as the best rap album of the year and the best of his career. It's undoubtedly among the most fascinating and audacious works in the rapper's catalog. Game delivers nearly two hours of material with help from high-profile production collaborators and more guest rappers and singers than tracks. His meta-rap method is taken to a new level with his imitations of assorted peers, all signs of respect with the notable exception of "The Black Slim Shady," a ten-minute diss track directed at
Eminem. Game tends to overreach with his mix of the referential and the personal. When there's less obvious effort, the results are favorable, as on the
Kanye West collaboration "Eazy," containing some of Game's best lyrics, illustrating the contrast between his upbringing and his ascendancy. ~ TiVo Staff