Dre and name-drops Em’s childhood bully D’Angelo Bailey, his ex-wife Kim, and that cluttered closet. Game goes beyond merely mocking the white rapper’s voice, delivery, and complexion, writing himself into the Marshall Mathers Cinematic Universe: He kidnaps the brother of Eminem’s infamous “Stan” murders (and eats) Dr. The 10-minute Eminem diss “The Black Slim Shady” takes the mimicry to another level. Even when his choices are aesthetically pleasing-the “Rump Shaker” horns (“La La Land”), the Janet Jackson interpolation (“Universal Love”), a snippet of the late Prodigy’s intro to Mobb Deep’s “ Quiet Storm” (“What We Not Gon’ Do”)-they fail to grow into something new, feeling more like Easter eggs than inspiration. On “Chrome Slugs & Harmony,” his awkward attempts to mimic Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s Cleveland G-Funk are almost as bad as his play on their name. “Money Cash Clothes,” his flip of a Jay-Z and DMX ’90s synth-heavy club hit, quickly descends into something spiritually aligned with Jersey Shore. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of these “tributes” is that Game has good taste it’s just that the creative elements and wordplay he contributes are often so corny they scan as parody. It’s a daring move that only the most skilled performers should even attempt Game takes shot after shot on Drillmatic without ever really coming close to succeeding. He whiffs on attempts to ape Cam’ron’s forceful enunciation (“K.I.L.L.A.S.”), Pusha T’s restrained Southern mafioso flow (“No Man Falls”), and the rollercoaster rhythm of Fivio Foreign’s Brooklyn drill delivery. The Game is less talented, and his experiments with different styles often prove disastrous. The result is Drillmatic, an exhausting campaign for GOAT status that finds the Compton rapper doing his best to out-rap his guest features while using their own style, à la the Notorious B.I.G.’s “ Notorious Thugs.” The problem for Game is that this is extremely difficult to do-Biggie was one of the most talented rappers to ever pick up a mic, and even he tried this only once on Life After Death.

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