Most Popular
-
Dallas's Most Authentic Dive Bars Pull up a stool, order some cheap whiskey and don’t forget to duck when the beer bottles fly
- No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?
- Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.
- Help! Those Mexicans Are Laughing at Me.
- Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.
Reader's Picks
Top Recommendations
A short list of Dallas's most popular hot spots.
-
Fireside Pies
Dallas, TX -
Eatzi's
Dallas, TX -
Dave & Buster's Frisco
Frisco, TX -
Campisi's
Dallas, TX -
BlackFriar Pub
Dallas, TX
Recent Blog Posts
If You Were Going to Buy a Superhero T-Shirt at Zeus Comics, Might Wanna Rethink That
Tue Nov 24, 12:40 PM
One More Reason We Love Dirk Nowitzki (and the Rest of Your Dallas Mavericks)
Tue Nov 24, 12:11 PM
Gig Alert: Raphael Saadiq Tonight at House of Blues
Tue Nov 24, 12:55 PM
Last Night: Neko Case at the Granada Theater
Tue Nov 24, 11:28 AM
NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 11
Tue Nov 24, 11:00 AM
Turn Back the Clock, Cowboys Fans. So ... Wouldja?
Tue Nov 24, 8:00 AM
Pho From Home: Hanoi Style
Tue Nov 24, 11:24 AM
If Memory Serves: Thanksgiving Overseas
Tue Nov 24, 11:01 AM
National Features >
City Pages
Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled
You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.
By Matt Snyders
Miami New Times
Pimp Daddy
The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.
By Natalie O'Neill
Riverfront Times
Babe 'n' Arms
Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns--and then he became Rachel.
By Nicholas Phillips
The Game
LAX (Geffen)
Share
By Ben Westhoff
Published on September 10, 2008 at 9:19am
Rappers and producers who appear on The Game's third album, LAX, include...everybody. There's Kanye West, Scott Storch, Travis Barker, Keisha Cole and Ne-Yo, for starters, and Game says he recorded more than 220 tracks for the CD.
But with the exception of two admittedly lights-out bangers, "My Life" and "Dope Boys," the album is a bloated, sentimental, name-dropping mess. There's unverifiable, probably untrue braggadocio ("House of Pain," "LAX Files"), a tribute to Tupac and Eazy-E ("Never Can Say Goodbye") and yet another song about cash and dough and stacks and stuff ("Money").
Game is a versatile, passionate MC, and we hope he doesn't quit, as he's threatened to do. But LAX is not a cohesive piece of art—and that's a shame, because he's completely capable of making one.
