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L.A.X is the airport in Los Angeles, California. It is also the title of Game’s third album.

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Game comes from a violent upbringing in Compton, California. He was a Blood gang member.

However, many have questioned his background due to his appearance on the Change of Heart. You decide for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qED16EJ_g6s

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Here Game is referring to Irv Gotti, a producer and executive at Ruff Ryder.

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The rough, agressive style of rap has often been overlooked by the Academy. Many of raps notable albums have won no Grammys. For example, Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, Low End Theory, Enter the 36 Chambers, and Only Built for Cuban Linx are all albums that are Grammyless.

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Game feels he is underrated. Especially after the success of his debut album The Documentary.

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He is from Compton, California. The “bottom” may refer to the inner-city.

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That’s quite the accomplishment.

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The .380 ACP cartridge was developed by legendary firearms designer John Browning for use in small automatic pistols. Ever since the cartridge’s introduction in 1908, guns chambered in .380 have been a popular choice for those looking to carry a concealed pistol. The narrator indicates in the next line that he feels uneasy about the people around him, so although a .380 can be used to instigate major conflict, Ice Cube is ensuring that he won’t be caught defenseless, and he won’t be giving up the element of surprise.

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Underrated Ice Cube track! Vivid storytelling, powerful message, and haunting production. Its arc is:

  1. The difficulties of hustling in a big city
  2. Traveling somewhere smaller to hustle (what we assume will the summer vacation)
  3. Initial success
  4. New difficulties
  5. A grim ending (revealed to be the actual summer vacation)

Notice that like so many other Ice Cube tracks, it’s narrated through a persona. In tracks like “Alive On Arrival” and “Once Upon the Time in the Projects”, Cube’s character is an innocent type who tries to stay out of trouble but gets caught up in it. Here, he plays the exact type of character who would be an antagonist in either of those songs.

The cumulative effect of these personas is that Cube exposes the listener to a wide swath of experiences. We see many segments of society and varying perspectives—yet they’re all united by common themes. All three of those songs are strongly anti-hustling, for instance. As Ice Cube has said in a few interviews, for a story to be about dealing drugs, it’s not realistic if it doesn’t have a tragic ending. If the ending’s happy, it ended too soon. (For a similar rumination on this topic, see Ice-T’s “Pain”.)

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This lady was ultimately the reason why he forgot his wallet. Sometimes you can be so mesmerized and lost in thought that you forget to do common sense things like put your wallet back in your pocket after setting it down in a public place.

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