The Game Says Rap World Is Missing Drake: ‘This Sh– Is Sad Without Drake in the Club’
Last week, the LA rapper claimed that the genre was 'down 50%' in the Toronto rapper's supposed absence.
Jayceon Terrell Taylor aka "The Game" performs live on stage during 'The Documentary 20th Anniversary Tour' at L'Olympia on March 23, 2025 in Paris, France.
The Game thinks the rap game is missing Drake.
Sitting down with Complex, The Game elaborated on his theory from last week that rap is “down 50%” in Drake‘s “absence.” “Y’all ain’t appreciate one of the greatest now the absence & silence has the art form down 50%,” he wrote on his Instagram Story in response to a tweet from Isaac Hayes III claiming that the Toronto rapper’s feud with Kendrick Lamar “killed commercial rap.”
“You gotta think…ever since Drake been quiet or chillin’ or not Drake in his usual, the world all f—ed up, bro,” Game told Complex. “You walk in the clubs, everybody on their phone, nobody looks like they’re having a good time no more. If you walked in the club today, what song would make you happy about being there right now? Yeat gonna come on and turn y’all up? He gonna turn y’all section up? And I’m not sh–tin’ on Yeat; I’m sayin’ this is why Drake needs to go up.”
“What are we doing, bro?” he continued. “This sh– is sad without Drake in the club. It’s sad, bro. But we got Drake out here feeling like we didn’t appreciate him, so now he tucked away working on Iceman, chillin’ like, ‘They don’t appreciate me.’ He should never feel that way.”
Following his beef with Lamar, Drake has released 100 gigs of data (which included several songs), a collaboration album with PARTYNEXTDOOR, and a handful of tracks featuring Yeat, Cash Cobain and Central Cee, with the single “What Did I Miss?” debuting the highest at No. 2. And he’s been rolling out his upcoming album Iceman for the better part of a year now, with it finally being revealed that it will drop in less than a month, on May 15.
You can watch the full conversation below.
