The Game Album - Untold Story, Vol. 2
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Customers rating:
(14 ratings)
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Release Date:2005-07-26
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Type:Audio CD
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Genre:Gangsta Rap, Hardcore Rap, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Rap, Hip-Hop, Rap/Hip Hop, United States of America, West Coast Rap
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Label:Fastlife
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UPC:184831000412
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Approx. Price:$13.98
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Customer review - 2005-10-23
- The GameThis album is not under Aftermath so the production is not going to be top notch. But most of the songs are good and lyrics are great and he does not name drop like on his first where he said a lot of names in his songs. Anyways buy this album if you are a Game fan and want to hear more of him and also get his mixtapes You Know What It Is Vol. 3 and You Know What It Is Vol. 4 both of these mixtapes diss gay unit and buy these from a seller named Ariallon he is very good and you will get your mixtapes fast. Buy this album with the other albums i just mentioned.
Customer review - 2005-09-07
- uninspired.This cd doesn't live up to The Documentary. The Documentary was an incredible debut album, and I don't know if any of his future albums could possibly live up to it. This one doesn't. It's missing the production quality and polish that that cd had. I don't think this album sold well because of the lack of reviews and for the fact that I didn't see any advertising for it at all. The game is great however this cd is sub par. I decided to give it 3 stars instead of 2 because it's gangsta grittyness kept my head bobbing. Let's hope that he can make great albums in the future. And let's hope that he can be successful without g-unit because this album doesn't persuade me that he can be.
Customer review - 2005-07-26
- The Game- Untold Story, Pt. 2Untold Story, Pt. 2" (2005) is a release containing previously unreleased music from The Game (Aka Jayceon Taylor). This music was made before Game signed to Aftermath and dropped his hit album "The Documentary". I originally reviewed the first "Untold Story", and warned people to expect a different sounding Game, who would not have Aftermath's premium production (that same warning can be applied here). Early tracks are decent but don't standout that much for me. The best of these for me is "For My Gangsterz" which opens with an Easy-E sample. Game rhymes about the struggles of growing up poor with no direction on "Just Beginning (Where I'm From)", this cuts simple instrumental works well and Game's lyrics are on point. Game reps his hood on "Born and Raised in Compton" (Raised as a G), with a different sounding flow. My favourite track on this release is the short gem "Walk Thru The Sky", backed by a ill beat, Game delivers some very memorable lyrics. "Game Get Live" is a decent closer. Overall "Untold Story, Pt. 2." is an average release; all the same Game fans may enjoy checking this one out, as it is going to be sometime before Game drops another album.
Customer review - 2006-01-25
- The best album I've ever heardI thought this cd wouldn't be very good because after artist makes a cd as good as The Documentary they seem to have used most of their creativity. But this is the best rap album ever.
Customer review - 2006-01-08
- The Game ----- The Untold Story, Part 2If The Game is rap's self proclaimed MVP for 2005, Then JT The Bigga Figga could be a candidate for raps 2005 Executive of the Year. Every couple of months JT puts out some old Game material that apparently, he has the rights to, then those records go on to sell a lot of copies with minimal expense to JT. You can't really knock that, unless of course, it's your material that he's selling. In just a few months JT has released two albums by one of Hip-Hops biggest superstars. The second of JT's series, Untold Story Volume II (Fastlife), featuring The Game seems to have made no improvements upon where Volume I left off.
Untold Story Vol. II is clearly more of a JT project than a Game project. A lot of the vocals were recorded by The Game years ago when he was still in the early stages of his career. But even then, The Game displayed the realness that makes him one of Hip-Hop's biggest stars on songs like "Just Beginning", where he airs out his father over some smooth guitar licks, for some of the things his father did to his family while he was growing up. Another song that true Game fans can appreciate is "Truth Rap" where he speaks about life in the ghetto in a way that only a few can when he spits "Nobody knows there neighbors name/ unless they sell weed or cocaine/a lot of black clouds on a block with no rain/The game got a lot to say/ so they wanna take me down in my own front yard like Marvin Gaye." But outside of a few other decent tracks from The Game himself including "Business Never Personal" - "Real Live on blocks, if we aint pushin the rocks, we movin the stocks", Volume II suffers from mediocre production and a lack of creative direction mainly because the star of the show had NO input in the creative process.
It's unclear how much of The Game's material JT has left in his vault but what is clear after listening to this album is that he's probably getting pretty low on his stash, which means that pretty soon JT is gonna have to come up with a new hustle for 2006. Untold Story Vol. II has a similar feel to a recent posthumous Tupac album where the lyrics seem a little outdated and a little too familiar (heard some of these verses on the last album) and the production and the M.C. just aren't on the same page and don't compliment each other at all. Now, while Tupac can get away with that, the same thing can not be said at this point for JT The Bigga Figga or The Game.
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