My Review of the Game's,Doctor's Advocate

Before I purchased Doctor's Advocate, I heard the single "It's Okay (One Blood)" and the song blew me away. The beat, the originality, all of it reminded me why The Game is a man to be reckoned with in Hip-Hop. This was a song that had to be played loud and on many occasions, I heard this beat pulsating from cars blocks away. If you listened clearly you could even hear a tiny guest appearance by the man himself, Young Jeezy. I fell in love with this song and had to buy the album. I am the kind of person who believes that if the first single released from a album is good, then you have a good album. Boy was I wrong in this instance.

The album starts off with a match being lit and then classic West Coast music starts. Now even when I was young (in elementary school to be exact) and Dre released The Chronic, I never really liked the lazy, gangsta, low-riding West Coast sound. My tastes have not changed in all these years and listening to the album's first track, I was not all that excited. Then the second track comes on and I hear a excerpt from Tales from the Hood that has me smile, it being one of my favorite movies from my youth. The beat is nice and my head moves. Here's a cut, I'm thinking and then I hear "Shut your mouth b@##$" and "It don't stop ni##sa's". My head stops moving and I am, again, disappointed. I am not a fan of misogyny and all though it's rare to hear hip-hop without it, my stomach turns. I listen through the third track which is the reason I brought the album but I am not as excited hearing it. Yeah it's still a jam but the two previous songs has turned me off. I sigh and decide to stick with it to the end.