With the help of 50 Cent, Kanye West and Busta Rhymes, the debut album from Dr. Dre's newest protégé is entering the hip-hop game with a strong advantage.

Compton, California's the Game releases his album, The Documentary, this week, which was executive-produced by Dre and 50 Cent; 50 also raps on the single "Westside Story." The Documentary, which was initially titled N.W.A Vol. 1 and slated for a late-2004 release, also features collaborations with Just Blaze and Snoop Dogg, among others.

Wrestling fans unsatisfied by simply watching the Rock strum away on his acoustic guitar in the ring would do well to check out the latest release from Chris Jericho's metal band, Fozzy. The group's third album finds them letting go of their fabricated history — that they had signed a bad record deal, spent 20 years in Japan and had their songs stolen by Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe, among others — and releasing a set of original hard-rock and thrash-metal songs with collaborations from Zakk Wylde, Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti and Bone Crusher.

Also hitting stores this week is a greatest-hits album by Cuban-American singer Martika (Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika) whose 1989 hit "Toy Soldiers" is heavily sampled in Eminem's "Like Toy Soldiers," and albums by Kinnie Starr (Sun Again), Kill-A-Watts (Circuit Breaker Love), and Magnolia Electric Co. (Trials and Errors).

Out Tuesday, January 18:

January 25: February 1:
  • Mötley Crüe - Red, White & Crüe (Hip-O)
  • Tina Turner - All the Best (Capitol)
  • Various artists - 2005 Grammy Nominees (Capitol)

February 8:

  • Sage Francis - Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
  • Brian McKnight - Gemini (Motown)
  • 3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days (Universal)