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Title: A Complete Mess
Review: Without Dre's quarterbacking behind the scenes, Game's album lacks direction. Many of the early tracks end up being glorified freestyles that tell no story, have no direction and are missing concepts ending up sounding like the same rhymes over different beats. And although Dre's presence is missing, his name is not. Game makes mention of Dre on nearly ever track, almost obsessively. Game does manage to put together a fairly decent album with production help from Storch, Will I Am, Kanye West and Just Blaze and caps the album with a soulful climax featuring Nas reminiscing on hip-hop's fallen soldiers and current heavyweights and a much-needed squashing of the beef between him-self and 50. The Doctor's Advocate is not worth half the hype that was made for it but is an okay listen. Game still has potential but without Dre mentoring him it's a wrap. Hopefully Dre will hear this album and accept hip-hop's prodigal son back.
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