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Recorded
  
2013–15

Artist
  
The Game

Label
  
Blood Money Entertainment

Length
  
73:50

Release date
  
16 October 2015

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Released
  
October 16, 2015 (2015-10-16)

Studio
  
Record Room Studios (Miami, Florida) Chalice Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)

Producer
  
The Game (also exec.) Stat Quo (also exec.) Cash "Wack100" Jones (co-exec.) will.i.am The Alchemist Mr. Bangladesh Battlecat Bongo Skrillex Cool & Dre DJ Khalil DJ Mustard DJ Quik Fredwreck Mike & Keys G Koop S1 Kevin Bivona THX Tone Mason Travis Barker Nastradomas

The Documentary 2.5 (2015)
  
Streets of Compton (2016)

Genres
  
West Coast hip hop, Gangsta rap

Similar
  
The Game albums, West Coast hip hop albums

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The Documentary 2.5 is the seventh studio album by American rapper The Game. It was released on October 16, 2015, by Blood Money Entertainment and eOne Music. The album is the second half for the two-piece project that was divided from the first half of his sixth album The Documentary 2 (2015). The album features guest appearances from will.i.am, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Nas, DJ Quik, Busta Rhymes and Problem, among others. The album was supported by the single: "El Chapo" with Skrillex.

Contents

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Singles

The lead single from The Documentary 2.5, "El Chapo" was released on October 9, 2015. The song features a duet and additional vocals from disc jockey Skrillex, who also produced this track, alongside Mr. Bangladesh and Nastradomas.

Critical reception

The Documentary 2.5 received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.

Commercial performance

The Documentary 2.5 debuted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200, with 42,000 copies and 48,000 units (including streams) in its first week. As of November 4, 2015, the album sold a total of 54,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing

Notes
  • "Like Father, Like Son 2" contains additional vocals performed by Harlem Caron Taylor and King Justice Taylor.
  • Adam Turchin — saxophone's
  • Koofreh Umoren — trumpet
    • Sample credits
  • "Magnus Carlsen" contains samples of "Rocket Love" performed by Stevie Wonder.
  • "Crenshaw / 808s and Cocaine" contains samples of "Power of Soul" performed by Idris Muhammed, and "Blow Your Head" performed by Fred Wesley and The J.B.s.
  • "The Ghetto" contains samples of "Tower Of Power" performed by Sparkling in the Sand.
  • "From Adam" conatins samples of "Who Made You Go" performed by Faith, Hope & Charity.
  • "Up on the Wall" contains samples of "Get Down on It", written by James "J.T." Taylor, Ronald Bell, performed by Kool & the Gang.
  • "Like Father, Like Son 2" contains samples of "Like Father, Like Son" performed by The Game.
  • "Life" contains samples of "You Give Good Love" performed by Whitney Houston, and also "Some How Some Way" performed by his idol Jay-Z.
  • "El Chapo" contains samples "Granada" performed by Frank Sinatra.

    • Songs

    1New York Skit2:34
    2Magnus CarlsenAnderson Paak5:29
    3Crenshaw / 80s and CocaineAnderson Paak - Sonyae Elise4:36

    References

    The Documentary 2.5 Wikipedia
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