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The Game has thrown disses at both 50 Cent and Jay-Z, so who does the Compton rap fanatic think would win if Fif and Jay ever engaged in a war of words? In a recent interview with Complex.com, Game says he gives it to Jigga.

"Jay-Z will f--- 50 up in a battle!" Game predicted. "It would be so fast and over with. 50 is funny, but Jay is witty. Jay-Z is not to be toyed with. If he responds, if he feels like you're really pissing him off and he responds, he's gonna f--- you up! He would f--- me up, I'm just glad he didn't respond, so I didn't have to go dig in my bag and try to f--- him up.

"I definitely think that Jay-Z didn't come at me like he came at any other rappers because I definitely would have been more disrespectful," he continued. "Once you start a beef with me, you better be ready to go the whole 12 rounds. I will try to chew your f---in' ear off, like Mike Tyson. I'll do it and I think he knew that — I'm disrespectful! So Jay, he did the right thing and just kinda let it die down and I let it die down 'cause it wasn't anything, really. It was fun and I really admire Jay's career. I just really don't care too much for the man himself."

The onetime G-Unit member also said he's open to working with 50 Cent again — although 50 recently said he isn't — but he does think Fif is just following his footsteps by beefing with Young Hova.

"I already did that Jay-Z thing," Game said. "50's just doing what I'm doing. Nobody went at Jay; I went at Jay. Now everybody wants to get at Jay — not saying anything about Beanie Sigel, that's personal and I stay out of that. He's just a man and he's got all the right in the world, but I feel like I did something that people have been wanting to do, but everybody is scared because Jay-Z is so lyrically inclined to cut your throat and your career in half that nobody wanted to do it. But me? I just don't give a f--- sometimes."

Both Game and 50 Cent have been in the lab with Dr. Dre lately. The Doc was in New York on Thursday at Best Buy promoting his headphones. During a press conference, RapRadar.com asked him about his relationship with Game and 50 since they are on opposing sides.

"It's good, I'm working with both guys," Dre began to say before Interscope CEO Jimmy Iovine attempted to move onto the next question. "Everything is good. Both guys are gonna be on my record. I'm trying to put it back to where it is supposed to be: all love."

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50 Cent and Dr. Dre helped Game concoct a classic album on The Documentary. And although things between Fif and Game went sour, the G-Unit General said he's open to working with Dre again to break another MC.

"We were actually talking about a new artist, working together on a new project," 50 Cent told MTV News. "I said, 'Just because we had a car accident, that doesn't mean we're not going to drive again — it just means we had an accident with that one.' He laughed at me. He said, 'All right. I'll give it a try,' because he was unsure about how I would feel about helping with [another new artist]," he continued. "Obviously Dre can create the best possible production for the artist and groom him to the right space. But going to introduce him to the general public would be something you want 50 to go do."

Since their falling out post-Documentary, 50 has vowed never to work with Game again. And even though Game has reunited with Dre for the Detox LP as well as his own R.E.D. Album, 50 says he wouldn't consider jumping on a record featuring Game.

"No," Fif said flatly when asked what his response would be to Dre's request for a reunion collaboration. "No, I wouldn't do it. I'd be on a record, on a song, on the [Detox] album, but not on that record [with Game]. That's not making a song, that's making an event — things for people to talk about. ... So there's a verse there that you think would be great for both of us, I just say, 'Erase his verse and put something in better than that.' "

50 briefly addressed the role Dr. Dre played in his and Game's feud on Before I Self Destruct's "So Disrespectful."

"I said, 'I gave Game hits, he told me to suck di--/ Start screamin' Westside and Dre ain't say sh--!' " 50 recited.

"It was an absolute true statement and Dre approved because it was true," 50 continued. "He heard the record and was like, 'Whoa! Out the park with that.' He likes it, he doesn't care. Creatively, you're right, 'cause he didn't say anything when that took place — or not anything that the public heard."

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50 Cent says that he's not following in Dr. Dre's footsteps. Dre recently worked with the Game in the studio — but Fif says that just because Game and Dre are on the same page musically, it doesn't mean he's welcoming back the former G-Unit member.

"You shouldn't really hold your breath," 50 said about him and Game collaborating again. "If Dre decides to work with him, that's Dre's prerogative — his album, he can do what he wants. He's Dre."

A photo recently appeared on the Internet showing Dre, Snoop and the Game in the lab, with Game tweeting about the session for Detox.

"They needed me to get in contact with Game," Snoop said recently on L.A.'s "Big Boy's Neighborhood" radio show. "I had the number in my phone. I shot it that way — once Game came through, he and Dre hollered. They have a great relationship."

Back in July, Game said he was open to patching things up with the G-Unit.

"Jimmy [Iovine] always says, 'Man, I told you guys not to break up the Beatles,' " Game said. "He says he told John Lennon the same thing a long time ago. But I was young, man. I was dumb. I did a lot of dumb things. I felt me and 50 clashed. I'm not gonna dis 50. I'm not gonna go back on the plane. He had his side, I had my side. I did what I felt was necessary for me and my career to have longevity and survive in hip-hop and music to be around when I'm Quincy Jones' age — not just be Quincy Jones' age, but be a Quincy Jones. Now, four albums in, I can honestly say from Banks to Buck to Dre to Yayo to whoever, if it would have kept going, endless paper. Millions of albums sold — because we were great together. Me and 50's chemistry was like how Method Man was to Redman when they get in. You know when Method Man gets with Redman, it's going down."

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Lab Work

Yet another new Mixtape Daily section? Yessir. We put "Don't Sleep" to sleep this week to bring you inside the realm if Jayceon Taylor. One of the most lethal MCs in hip-hop is piecing together what he calls another masterpiece.

"If you going by current status of the artist's music, then, I mean, I gotta exceed," Game said. "This album is the most lyrical of them all, this album is the most lyrical album, period, point blank. I can say that about The R.E.D. Album."

Everybody is talking about Game and his disses toward Jay-Z, but what about the music? What about the actual songs where he talks about different topics and shows his reach as an MC à la "Letter to the King," "Hate It or Love It" or even "How We Do"? The Compton rap fanatic said he's got it all covered in his new LP, due later this year.

"The R.E.D. Album is a little soulful," he said, sitting in an L.A. studio recently. "But I think that The R.E.D. Album takes you. ... It's crazy because it could be pre-Documentary, and it could be post-R.E.D. Album, like it's early and late. It's early and late, so it's just on time. If you could understand that. It's like I'm raw. Like [on] some of the songs my flow is as raw as before I got with Dre."

As raw as they are, Game said the records are coming out very musical.

"Then the songs are so big and melodic and so music-filled that you could tell that I've been around for a while," he said. "So, you know, that's the vibe and it's soulful, but it's still right where you need it to be. It's not too sample-heavy and not just that soulful where it takes away from what I do, and it isn't gonna bore you or tire you out. This album is going to be incredible, man, and I would say it's going to be my best album."

Game did acknowledge that he's said every album is going to be his "best."

"I just don't want to do that anymore," he said. "I'm just going to say it's going to be a great album, man. ... The whole theme behind it is just 'rededicated.' That's what the 'red' stands for. Some people think it stands for blood or red, but that's not the case. This album is rededicated to where I'm from, rededicated to my fans, rededicated to music, to my people, rededicated to you guys, rededicated to just the game in general, man. The things I've been recording as of late, man, have just been so catastrophic, man. I can't even begin to tell you that it's going to be dope."

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Jay-Z may be the king of rap, but when it comes to hip-hop rivalries, Game claims he's the king of battles.

Taking a break from his promotional tour in Amsterdam, the Game spoke with "The Boodah Brothers Show" on Norfolk, Virginia's 103 Jamz, responding to Jay's recent radio interview with the U.K.'s Tim Westwood.

"I ain't lost a rap beef to date, and when I say rap beef, I mean rap beef," Game said. "I ain't talking about no guns or shoot-outs or fighting. I'm just saying, this is hip-hop. It's a competition. We men. It's like football or basketball. It's competitive."

After countless verses name-dropping Mr. Carter, Game engaged Jay-Z in a full-on battle. The war of words was ignited when Jay mentioned Game's name, along with Jim Jones and Dame Dash, in a freestyle during the launch of his Blueprint 3 tour. Game immediately responded, going as far as dissing Beyoncé, questioning Jay's ability to father children and attacking the rapper's age.

Speaking out for the first time, Jay said his verse wasn't a dis but couldn't care less how it's perceived. "If that's a dis, then wear that," Jay told Westwood. "Tell groupie to get over it."

The Game, however, had a different perspective on Jay's bars: "What better way to talk about somebody than to not talk about 'em? Why you gotta say you're not talking about 'em? If you're not talking about them, then you just don't talk about 'em. He's slick, man. You gotta watch that cat, man. I'm probably the only rapper in this world besides Nas that's really not scared to go at this dude's neck. He knows if he goes to war with me, then it's going to be never-ending, man."

As was the case in his previous disses, the Game continued throwing darts at Jay-Z and his age, suggesting he move aside and let the new guys eat.

"Jay's problem is that some people just don't want to get old," Game said. "He got a problem like my dad got that problem. My dad, he just still trying to be young, like, rockin' fitted caps, and I'm like, 'Pops, you 60. You gotta chill.' Jay got that problem. He don't want to get old. It's cool to get old. But a lot of people have that problem, especially when they don't have children. But he don't got no children. I don't know what's up with that. Maybe he ain't fertile."

Recently, Jay touched on the harsh criticism he's received over the years regarding his age and being at the forefront of hip-hop music.

"I hear it all the time — 'Yo, he should let the young guys, the new generation of guys, come in,' " Jay told Reuters. "But you don't become the front-runner in music because someone lets you. You have to claim your shoes. ... If you grow up listening to hip-hop, you love hip-hop, and that's the end of it. But if you're a 30-year-old rapper still trying to make music like you're 15, then you're making it narrow. At my age, I can't relate to a 15-year-old. I deal with mature and relevant topics for my age group — it has to all be based on true emotions. The more diversity and the more mature we make hip-hop, the bigger the net you cast. ... Kanye is really the father to the next generation — he's from the school of Q-Tip, and now Drake and Kid Cudi are from the school of 'Ye. And, when you look at Kanye, you have to look at Lil Wayne. I think they're like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James."

As for the Game, he says you can expect another dis record — but only if Jay responds on wax, which is unlikely.

"If and when he does [respond], just be looking out for 400 bars," Game said. "It's not gonna be a joke. I'mma really put my pen down on a paper and really strike a match."

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"Tell groupie to get over it." Jay-Z says he didn't dis the Game, but he hasn't exactly been losing sleep over the former G-Unit rapper taking his words in the Blueprint 3 intro as a insult.

"If that's a dis, then wear that," Jay told radio personality Tim Westwood while in Europe promoting the album. "Tell groupie to get over it."

Westwood also asked Jay his thoughts on the videotaped apology Chris Brown released on Monday.

"We're all flawed human beings. All a person can do is apologize," Jay said. "That's it, what can we say? You know everyone should be allowed to make mistakes. It happens."

Hov also denied that he had a hand in blackballing Chris Brown from performing at the recent BET Awards during a tribute to Michael Jackson. The big rumor was that Jay told BET that neither he nor Beyoncé would perform at the June award show if Brown was allowed to take the stage. BET and a source close to Brown discounted the rumor to MTV News in the wake of the show.

"That's the silliest rumor I ever heard," Jay told Westwood. "You know me, right? I was sitting back and watching all them suckas [comment]. You don't comment on rumors. I was sitting back watching them. 'Look at them. That's so silly.' First, let me categorically deny that. If I have a problem with Chris Brown, I got a problem with Chris Brown. I don't agree with what he did and that's that."

Hov said for him to impose his will on BET would have been a sucka move and for people to come out and comment on the rumor was also a sucka move.

"This one was funny," he said of the rumor. "I was sitting back like, 'Look at them, they all stupid.' I didn't do it, I wouldn't do it. That's not how I deal with my problems, through using BET or record companies."

It's no secret Jay and Rihanna are close. The singer and Kanye West appear on the next single from The Blueprint 3, "Run This Town."

"We basically run this town," Jay said. "It's myself, Rihanna and Kanye. It's pretty much it."

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NEW YORK — Tony Yayo has been keeping up. Just like all the fans have been talking about Jay-Z and the Game's back-and-forth, Yayo has been following along. The G-Unit member said Game made the wrong decision in choosing to dis the Jiggaman.

"Stupid move," Yayo said a couple of days ago in Astoria, Queens. "It's dumb. When I see guys like Jay-Z, 50 and Diddy, there's no need for me [to beef with them]. They got too much money. Dudes got sniper money. You gotta chill. I chill. You gotta leave them kinda dudes alone. That's how I look at it. I don't know how other rappers look at it. These guys is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 50, Eminem, Dre, Diddy — waste of time, man."

Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Whoo Kid and 50 Cent will be back in Queens with a huge few days of events toward the end of August. In what 50 has labeled "40 Day," named after the 40 projects, Fif and the crew are setting up bus rides to Great Adventure amusement park one day and the next, having a big picnic style party where everyone in the 'hood is invited to listen to music, get food and mingle with the Unit and friends, such as boxer Floyd Mayweather.

"It feels good, man," Yayo said about giving back. "You hear a lot of hate. You hear, 'G-Unit don't give back to the 'hood. They don't do this. They need security.' Nah. This is gonna show and prove to you they give back to the 'hood. A lot of people focus on the negative, not the positive. Bring your kids, your grandmother — everything's free."

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If you've been keeping up with hip-hop for the past week and change, Game didn't surprise you when he dropped the Jay-Z dis record "I'm So Wavy" this weekend. (Well, maybe Game's references to Kanye West's girlfriend, Amber Rose, caught you off guard.)

Game has never been shy about throwing darts. From his quarrels with the G-Unit to the Compton MC calling out video vixens, Game spits. This time, though, he's going against somebody he's cited as one of his influences. It's going to be interesting how things pan out.

Rather than just report the news, I decided to team up with my partner Rahman Dukes to do what we do every day: talk about what's going on in hip-hop. Now, we're letting you inside the inner realm of MTV News' hip-hop team.

"Jay's been a huge influence on him, as Jay has the entire hip-hop game," I told Rahman. "I guess this is a case where you're Kobe Bryant and you want to go up against Jordan."

My P.I.C. Mr. Dukes wasn't sure if Young Hov would respond. We both appreciate what Game and Jigga bring to the table, but Rahman felt that Game playing Jay because of his age isn't a strong point in the dis song.

"My thing was like, 'Jay ain't gonna respond to him,' because he wasn't talking nothing new," Rahman argued. "But you keep throwing all that Beyoncé talk in, I think homie might jump in there. I think Jay probably should just fall back from it. One thing I will say that I'm not appreciative of, and I don't think that anybody — especially a rapper, somebody that's responsible for pushing the culture along — it doesn't make sense to dis somebody because of their age. We should be celebrating how old Jay is and he's still in the position he's in. Same thing with LL. Rap is the only genre where you run into these issues."

"You have to keep moving the culture along," I told him. "How you gonna tell somebody 38, 39, even 40 years old you have to retire? ... Jay is one of the, if not the, nicest on the mic right now. You can't fault him for wanting to make music. But I just heard an interview with Jay and DJ Drama. [Jay] says he's closing the Blueprint 3 out right now. ... I'm thinking we're gonna hear a response."

Now you know what we think — what are your thoughts? Do you think Jay will fire back at the Game? Post your comments below.

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The Game jumped all the way out there over the weekend: The Compton native dropped a dis record aimed at Jay-Z and, surprisingly, Kanye West's frequent companion Amber Rose.

The heart of the venom goes back to earlier this month when Jay rapped the intro from his forthcoming Blueprint 3 LP at several concert appearances.

"I ain't talkin' about Game/ I ain't talkin' about Jimmy [Jones]/ I ain't talkin' about Dame/ I'm talkin' about real sh-- them people playin'/ What is you talkin' about? I don't know what y'all sayin'."

Game responded on Twitter on July 4, saying he wasn't going to dis Jay, but then proceeded to do just that at concerts overseas. Game has been encouraging the crowd at his shows in a call-and-response to say, "F--- Jay-Z." He's also been calling the veteran Jiggaman "old."

On Saturday afternoon, a full-fledged assault on Jay called "I'm So Wavy" hit the Internet.

"You got cheese and I kill rats," Game raps. He then gets very disrespectful: "Do something with that/ Or respond to this/ With them big-ass lips, you got my name in your mouth ..." He goes on to insult Hov further, referencing Beyoncé and Drake, and then lobs a missile at Kanye West's girlfriend.

"Yes my n---a, so, I'm gonna give him some advice/ Get rid of Amber Rose/ I'mma tell you how she get down/ I was at Diddy's afterparty/ Sippin' Cris, she was whispering at Chris Brown/ I seen Chris turn his head like, 'No'/ Then 'Gold Digger' came on, I pointed like, 'Ho!' "

As the record fades out, Game talks and levies some unfounded allegations, including that Jay-Z and Kanye had a fight backstage somewhere, and that Jay blackballed Chris Brown from the recent BET Awards. A rep for BET told MTV News last month that no one, including Jay-Z, had Brown banned from the show, noting that Brown's appearance was never confirmed; MTV News also received that information from a source close to Brown.

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