{"id":471891,"date":"2022-07-08T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-game-talks-nas-co-signing-drillmatic-album-title-lil-durk-having-it-first\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:01:19","slug":"the-game-talks-nas-co-signing-drillmatic-album-title-lil-durk-having-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-game-talks-nas-co-signing-drillmatic-album-title-lil-durk-having-it-first\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Game Talks Nas Co-Signing &#039;Drillmatic&#039; Album Title &amp; Lil Durk Having It First"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f97b917f4a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f97b917f4a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-game-talks-nas-co-signing-drillmatic-album-title-lil-durk-having-it-first\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Game_Talks_Nas_Co-Signing_Drillmatic_Album_Title_Lil_Durk_Having_It_First%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Game Talks Nas Co-Signing &#039;Drillmatic&#039; Album Title &amp; Lil Durk Having It First&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Game_Talks_Nas_Co-Signing_Drillmatic_Album_Title_Lil_Durk_Having_It_First%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Game Talks Nas Co-Signing &#039;Drillmatic&#039; Album Title &amp; Lil Durk Having It First&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/07\/the-game-drillmatic-nas-lil-durk-1200x675.png\" alt=\"The Game Talks Nas Co-Signing 'Drillmatic' Album Title &amp; Lil Durk Having It First\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Jason LaVeris\/FilmMagic | Hippolyte Petit\/Getty Images | Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> raised a few eyebrows earlier this year when he announced his new album is called <em>Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind<\/em>, a title that nods to both Nas\u2019 landmark 1994 debut and the popular Hip Hop sub-genre that\u2019s more synonymous with Chicago, London and New York than his hometown of Compton.<\/p>\n<p>But as The Game revealed in a recent interview with <em>HipHopDX<\/em>, he made sure to get the blessing of both Nas and Chicago drill star Lil Durk before settling on the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally, I gave [the title] <em>Drillmatic<\/em> to Durk because he\u2019s from the Chi and it has the whole drill thing,\u201d he explained. \u201cI text Durk like, \u2018Yo, call your next album <em>Drillmatic<\/em>.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Yo, that\u2019s fire.\u2019 And then two years passed and he didn\u2019t call nothing <em>Drillmatic<\/em> so I was like, \u2018I\u2019ma reel that back in.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeRaNXRlqtw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeRaNXRlqtw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\">A post shared by HipHopDX (@hiphopdx)<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While The Game\u2019s mid-2000s mainstream breakthrough was overseen by Dr. Dre, <em>Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind<\/em> finds him partnering with another West Coast producer, Hit-Boy, who has become Nas\u2019 go-to collaborator in recent years. It was during an early <em>Drillmatic<\/em> session at Hit\u2019s studio where Game bumped into the Queensbridge MC and secured his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval for his new album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHit-Boy hit me on January 1 and he said, \u2018Whatchu doing?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Shit, I\u2019m smoking.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018We should do an album,&#8217;\u201d he recalled. \u201cSo I pulled up to his studio, we did three songs that day, three songs the next day, three songs the next day and we had nine. He\u2019s like, \u2018We need a title.\u2019 I was like, \u2018<em>Drillmatic<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then Nas was in the room the day after, on the fourth day, working on music with Hit. I ran the title by him and he blessed it, and so then I ran with it. Because I don\u2019t want to step on no toes, especially not with people I look up to. So yeah, we got Nas\u2019 blessing, we started to run it and then it took on a life of its own and now we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the title suggests, The Game\u2019s mission with <em>Drillmatic<\/em> is to bridge the gap between the <em>Illmatic<\/em> era of Hip Hop that raised him and the contemporary sounds of the drill wave \u2014 while adding his own flavor to the mix, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrill is now. All these kids, it\u2019s drill this, drill that and so I gotta get they attention because I want the new school to understand my school, we can coexist,\u201d he explained. \u201cAlso, when you hear me on a drill beat, it\u2019s gonna be a message in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why my album is called <em>Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind<\/em>, because everyday we wake up, we feel indifferent sometimes. We don\u2019t wake up everyday feeling 100 percent. Some days I wake up and I\u2019m happy and I love the world, and other days I wake up and I\u2019m very angry with things that are going on. Every single day is a different challenge for every single human being on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3aWkeLyzEcAWIr8LWvBtqX?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Naming an album after <em>Illmatic<\/em> \u2014 still widely regarded as one of the greatest rap albums of all time \u2014 carries with it enormous expectations. But The Game isn\u2019t shying away from the pressure, and believes <em>Drillmatic<\/em> will reign supreme in a year that\u2019s already produced stellar releases from Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Vince Staples and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re about to put out <em>the<\/em> best rap album in, I don\u2019t know how many years,\u201d he declared. \u201cI don\u2019t care who got an album coming out, I don\u2019t care who dropped \u2014 nothing\u2019s gonna be better than this album\u2026 I put my whole heart, my soul, my mind, everything that I am, I put into this album. I put more work into this album than I did on <em>The Documentary<\/em>, <em>The Doctor\u2019s Advocate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Drillmatic<\/em> will not disappoint at all, not a soul. And if it does, then you just lying. You should stop listening to my shit, go look in the mirror and have a talk with yourself about your appreciation of real rap music\u2026 It\u2019s gonna fucking blow your mind. You\u2019ve never heard me rap like this ever in your life, and you might never again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Drillmatic: Heart vs. Mind<\/em> is due out later this year. 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