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Riff: The Game – “Black on Black”

Oct 14, 2014

Put ten karats on my daughter ear, fuck it/She deserved every rock I done sold out in public/Do anythin’ for my Destiny’s Child/She a Beyoncé, never be LeToya Luckett

from Black on Black lyrics by The Game

Enough bass to make you vomit, but that’s not nearly as egregious as the lyrics. It’s that age old fallback that most rappers lean on to justify a seedy past or the inability to string together a dope narrative. Rap cliches abound, as anemic an effort as Game has ever strung together.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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