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80
Perhaps one of the telling strengths of LAX is that despite all star guest appearances from the likes of Ludacris, Travis Barker, Nas and the aforementioned Ice Cube it is very much The Game’s album.
10y
75
While the 19-track disc could use a good trimming, The Game’s routine is just as entertaining the third time around.
10y
70
On LAX, Game hasn’t changed, but he’s picked a group of beats that get him closer to extricating himself from both his West Coast Messiah complex and the post-G-Unit narrative.
11y
70
Add the "Jam on It" sample producer Nottz lays on "Ya Heard," the sultry backing track Scott Storch designed for "Let Us Live," and a superstar guest list that's a mile long, and this scattershot album is easy to recommend despite its flaws.
11y
70
LAX may be good enough to keep his fans content and easily topples his G-Unit foes recent release, but for a talent who hasn’t hit his ceiling, more is expected.
11y
70
With the Game’s third and best album, LAX, which drops without the baggage of a high-profile beef, we learn more about who the rapper really is: a guy who loves hip-hop, from top to bottom.
11y
65
L.A.X. has its moments but it has to be more thorough if this is Game’s parting gift to Hip-Hop as an emcee.
3y
65
The album, weighed down by a few awkward romance tracks and a well-meaning but ill-fitting MLK tribute, drags in the second half, and there’s no one moment to parallel the odd ache of “Doctor’s Avocate.” But it’s once again more than the sum of its parts.
7y
64
The perception of Doctor's Advocate as career suicide made it a voyeuristic pleasure for the message-board rubberneckers Game actively courts. That inferiority complex and desperate need for approval keeps L.A.X. surprisingly entertaining even though there are far more weak tracks on it than good ones.
11y
60
It's a quintessential Game record, which is to say it's riddled with name dropping, a dichotomy of bouncy throwback cuts and gangster tunes, and The Game's unbridled tendency to emulate other artists. When it's good, it's really good. Otherwise, it's never really bad, just excessive and somewhat unfocused.
11y
60
LAX is an intense and remarkably focused record - almost every syllable concerns Compton, gangsta rap and (as one song title has it) Game's Pain - but the minor-key, would-be emotive beats of tracks ... don't bring the best out of his expressive flow.
10y
50
The Game has always borrowed from the greats. Here, he cannibalizes his own tired shtick so extensively, he lapses even further into self-parody.
11y
50
L.A.X. is far from a terrible album. It simply lacks the character of his earlier work.
11y
My Life and Letter to the King are both great. Album isn't spectacular otherwise besides some of the more R&Bish cuts but it's never a bad album either. Inoffensive at it's weakest.
LAX feels bigger than it needs to be, but in a way that mostly works. It’s ambitious, packed with features, and clearly trying to feel like a full statement rather than just another West Coast album, and for the most part, it pulls that off.
The production is all over the place stylistically, but it still holds together. You get those classic West Coast sounds mixed with more polished, mainstream tracks, and it gives the album a sense of scale. It never feels small, every track sounds ... read more
it's fine and definitely has it's highs but there are many more lows on here that bring it down a major step down from his last 2 albums
LAX feels bigger than it needs to be, but in a way that mostly works. It’s ambitious, packed with features, and clearly trying to feel like a full statement rather than just another West Coast album, and for the most part, it pulls that off.
The production is all over the place stylistically, but it still holds together. You get those classic West Coast sounds mixed with more polished, mainstream tracks, and it gives the album a sense of scale. It never feels small, every track sounds ... read more
A step down from his first two albums. It’s still solid but it feels way too commercial compared to his previous efforts and the replay value sufferers a lot because of it. Still a ton a gems to be found and the features are still really strong. The best song is the track with Nas. Game and Nas’ chemistry is super underapprciated. They barely missed on a track together.
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Track List
| 1 | Intro 1:20 | 64 |
| 2 | LAX Files 3:59 | 79 |
| 3 | State of Emergency 3:38 feat. Ice Cube | 81 |
| 4 | Bulletproof Diaries 4:52 feat. Raekwon | 83 |
| 5 | My Life 5:20 feat. Lil Wayne | 91 |
| 6 | Money 5:13 | 78 |
| 7 | Cali Sunshine 4:33 feat. Bilal | 79 |
| 8 | Ya Heard 4:04 feat. Ludacris | 75 |
| 9 | Hard Liquor (Interlude) 1:50 | 51 |
| 10 | House of Pain 4:32 | 82 |
| 11 | Gentleman's Affair 3:39 feat. Ne-Yo | 76 |
| 12 | Let Us Live 4:39 feat. Chrisette Michele | 71 |
| 13 | Touchdown 3:59 feat. Raheem DeVaughn | 65 |
| 14 | Angel 4:28 feat. Common | 89 |
| 15 | Never Can Say Goodbye 4:40 feat. LaToiya Williams | 70 |
| 16 | Dope Boys 4:00 feat. Travis Barker | 82 |
| 17 | Game's Pain 4:21 feat. Keyshia Cole | 84 |
| 18 | Letter to the King 5:45 feat. Nas | 96 |
| 19 | Outro 1:28 | 64 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 16 minutes
