Math Hoffa’s recent barbershop discussion turned to The Game, claiming he’s a better rapper than Eminem. The verdict is that it’s a smart business move, but the claim is unsubstantial.
Queens native Grafh admits that he can recognise this tactic and has used it before:
What Game is doing, that’s business. He’s putting his name in the conversation with other niggas. I do that all day. He wouldn’t got mentioned next to Eminem in no other way. It’s a chess move.
Yet Math Hoffa wanted a direct answer to a simple question who would be the favourite in a hypothetical battle between Eminem and The Game. For Grafh, it is simple:
Nobody’s fucking with Em, he’s too lyrical. Nigga’s an animal. Em influenced my shit too. He is one of the GOATs to me. His skill set is alienlike.
Battle rapper H20 supports this opinion:
I feel like Game’s been reaching. Eminem is Eminem. So what’s a better person to come when you’re doing an interview with N.O.R.E. on the Drink Champs? What’s a better person to come at than Eminem? Probably the biggest name in hip-hop.
Grafh had to add at this point that while Game’s claim sounds wild, it does not mean that the rapper deliberately misleads the audience. He might be very sincere, even if delusional:
I put my name next to Eminem’s in all kinds of wild shit because I wanted to be in that conversation. But I believed in what I was saying too. I think Game believes in what the fuck he’s saying. I wanted to be compared to the nigga.
Does anybody else believe in that? That’s the question? And the whole room agreed that no, nobody takes Game’s claim seriously. Not to slander the ex-G-Unit rapper, Esso makes a point:
The Game can rhyme. He can fucking rap. But is he rapping on Em’s level? No. Everybody knows that.
In any case, the whole barbershop agreed, this is entertaining to watch, and there will be more attempts to ride Eminem’s fame for clout.
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