Game Now WANT'S Beef With Jay-Z

With his new album, LAX, in stores this week SOHH sat down with The Game to talk first week sales predictions and to find out why he thinks “Jockin’ Jay-Z” was directed at him.

Despite efforts from his arch enemy’s website, Thisis50.com, to leak free downloads of his latest album LAX, The Game is confident his sales will still thrive. “My album being in stores makes me feel like a winner,” said The Game. “I’m excited. I sold 130,000 records on iTunes [Tuesday] morning. So that combined with the people in the streets, it’s probably going to be successful come next Tuesday, Wednesday.”

Though he is optimistic, the West Coast-based rapper says he isn’t too concerned about the first week sales numbers of his third and final album.

“Whatever the number comes out to be will make me happy,” he said. “I’m just happy to have another album in stores and still be co-existing in hip-hop with some of the best lyricists that ever lived.”

One of the lyricists that Game is referring to is Brooklyn-bred rapper Jay-Z. In recent months, The Game has been quite vocal in his desire to lure the rapper into a lyrical battle. On the LAX cut, “Dope Boys,” which features Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, Game taunts Jay by hijacking his hook for “Roc Boys (And The Winner is).”

“When I heard the, ‘Roc Boys in the building,’ I was like, well, I’m in Cali we do the dope thing. Everything is dope for us. So I came with ‘the Dope Boys in the building’ and then he comes with, ‘Jockin’ Jay-Z, I’m still dope boy fresh.”

Game thinks that this was an indirect diss. “Me and Jay I guess we trade subliminal hits every now and then,” he explained.

However, as SOHH previously reported, the Game had harsher, more blatant words for Jay just two weeks ago when he said, "If you f*ck with me I'll turn into a beast and rip your head off. I'll bust your lips and turn that Roc-A-Fella sign into a pee stain."

But despite those former threats, The Game maintains that his words won't carry over into real beef on the street. "You know, we poke fun, but it’s nothing too serious, he said. "It’s never going to be a fist fight or anything street or nothing real violent to come out of it.”

“If anything it’ll be a lyrical war which I’ll engage if he engages and if not then you’ll let it go away.”

This dude is really messed, first he wants beef, then no, then yes and no again, now he thinks Jay-Z dissed him.