{"id":2396369,"date":"2026-04-30T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2396369"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:13:11","slug":"the-game-thinks-rap-is-in-a-sad-space-without-new-music-from-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-game-thinks-rap-is-in-a-sad-space-without-new-music-from-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game Thinks Rap Is in a &#8216;Sad&#8217; Space Without New Music From Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/the-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The Game;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">The Game<\/a> has shared that he believes rap is in a &#8220;sad&#8221; place without <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/drake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Drake;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Drake<\/a> releasing new music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a new interview with <em>Complex<\/em>, in which he ranks his top rappers, the Compton rapper (who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/jaelaniturnerwilliams\/game-rap-trash-one-of-best-rappers-on-earth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:called today\u2019s hip-hop &quot;trash&quot; last year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">called today\u2019s hip-hop &#8220;trash&#8221; last year<\/a>) explained why he thinks Drizzy is desperately needed in today&#8217;s hip-hop landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You walk in the clubs, everybody on their phone, nobody looks like they\u2019re having a good time anymore,&#8221; Game began. &#8220;If you walked in the club today, what song would make you happy about being there right now? Yeat gonna come on and turn y\u2019all up? He gonna turn y\u2019all section up? And I\u2019m not shitting on Yeat. I\u2019m saying, this is why Drake needs to go up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/shop?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=shop2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:COMPLEX SHOP: Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what's next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>COMPLEX SHOP:<\/b> Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what&#8217;s next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This s**t is sad without Drake in the club,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It\u2019s sad, bro. But we got Drake out here feeling like we didn\u2019t appreciate him, so now he tucked away working on <em>Iceman<\/em>, chillin&#8217; like, &#8216;They don\u2019t appreciate me.&#8217; He should never feel that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luckily for Game, and the rest of the rap scene, Drake is set to release his long-awaited album <em>Iceman <\/em>on May 15. The Toronto-born crooner<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/drakes-iceman-album-streamer-discovers-192901403.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:hid the release date;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\"> hid the release date<\/a> for his ninth solo studio album inside of a massive ice sculpture that fans, streamers, and eventually fire fighters chipped through to discover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/dj-akademiks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:DJ Akademiks;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">DJ Akademiks<\/a>, the album should have been out sooner, but, allegedly <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/akademiks-says-told-drake-delay-175411205.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:at his suggestion;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\">at his suggestion<\/a>, Drizzy made the choice to hold on to it for a little while longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I TOLD DRAKE DELAY ICEMAN A LIL MORE CUZ HIS HATERS BECOMING DELUSIONAL!&#8221; AK wrote on X. &#8220;DRAKE DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!! THEY MAD THEY GOT NOTHING TO HATE ON.. SO THESE F*CK N***AS JUST MAKING UP FALLACIES. WITH THAT SAID. ICE MAN\u2026 SO SOON. STAY ALERT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drake\u2019s last solo studio album, <em>For All the Dogs, <\/em>arrived in October of 2023. 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During a new interview with Complex, in which he ranks his top rappers, the Compton rapper (who called today\u2019s hip-hop &#8220;trash&#8221; last year) explained why he thinks Drizzy is desperately needed in today&#8217;s hip-hop landscape. &#8220;You walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[25844,363177],"class_list":["post-2396369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-drake","tag-drizzy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Game-Thinks-Rap-Is-in-a-Sad-Space-Without.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396371,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396369\/revisions\/2396371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}