2K5 will apparently be owned by an Air Max-wearing, self-confessed novice. As lead single ‘How We Do’ swaps club deeds with Fiddy as the Doctor tinkers with a Tinkerbell riff, The Game’s near-incessant reading from the West Coast’s electoral roll could make him merely a lackey hanging by Dre’s/G Unit’s nuts. Don’t let his shout-outs to familiar friends be off-putting; TG’s unfrilled mic pounding and CPT chronicles slip into the psyche over time, abreast of a heavy mob of boardsmen – Kanye West, Just Blaze, Timbaland, Hi-Tek – earning their keep. It goes by the book, but yeah, The Game got game.
3 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: MATT OLIVER
