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With a multi-platinum selling album under his belt, two Grammy nominations and an MTV Video Music Award for his hit single "Ridin Dirty," Chamillionaire planning a big year in 2007.

He's finishing off 2006 with a bang by offering his new mixtape, Mixtape Messiah 2, free for download on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), on his newly-launched website Chamillionaire.com

The mixtape, the follow-up to Cham's notable 2004 release Mixtape Messiah, will serve as a prelude for his upcoming album titled Ultimate Victory, which will be released in stores March 27th, 2007.

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Last week, Snoop Dogg said West Coast artists shouldn't hate on each other. Apparently The Game agrees.

"Us on the West Coast, we are the biggest and worst enemies of our own self," Game said. In last week's Mixtape Monday, Snoop called for Game and Ras Kass to make peace. "Every time somebody from the West rises — I think Snoop will tell you the same thing — [some other West Coast artists] will try to hate you down. You just gotta keep your head up, man. ... A lot of these guys are cats I tried to help. You gotta help yourself more than I can help you. I don't think they understand that. But I got love for all my West Coast MCs, anybody from the West Coast. I am the West Coast."

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The MC on everything from Chuck Taylor to LeBron James to the Bloods and the Crips to N.W.A. to the Black Wall Street. The final installment of a three-part series.

Vibe: From where in your fam do you get your light eyes?

Game: No one. There’s no one but me. I’m funny like that. Kinda hoped my son would come out with the light eyes but he didn’t. He came out with the chocolate browns.

Vibe: Do you know the story of the basketball legend Chuck Taylor, who they named the sneaker after?

Game: Um, I know he was aiight, but LeBron would’ve kicked his ass. That was back in the day when you could shoot with two hands, and probably get away with traveling. That day is gone. Appreciate his shoe, man. It’s a great shoe.

Vibe: His story is a classic tale of exploitation. He was an alcoholic and signed away the rights to use his name on the shoe for money to go out drinking.

Game: What an idiot. Signed away the license like that? Fucking idiot. Maybe he needed an Olde English instead of that Heine he was drinking. The reference to Chuck Taylor is dope but my moniker Chuck Taylor is not from the man or the shoe. I had a brother Charles Taylor who's dead now. He was [called] Chuck and it just comes in as a coincidence that it aligns with the history of the shoe and the man.

Vibe: Tell me a story about an experience that you had at the Compton Swap Meet.

Game: An experience I had at the Compton Swap meet was...walking through the Compton Swap Meet—which was heavily Crip-, ese-, and Blood-infested—and seeing some Crips I really didn't get along with. I was about 15. They were about seven, eight deep and I was by myself. I was like, Fuck, I got these red Chucks on, red strings. It’s not my fucking day. I’m walking through and a police officer walks up to me and says, “Don’t worry, Blood, I got your back.” I looked at him, like, Woah, police officers gangbang too! And that was the craziest realization. He watched over the situation, and I kept my hard look on, and it turned out those Crips were bluffing that day. I walked away unscathed. But I can’t say the same thing about the next time I seen those guys, because I ended up getting my ass whooped. You win some, you lose some. That’s how it works in the ’hood.
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The MC on everything from Dr. Dre to Martin Luther King Jr. to Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes to Ice Cube to Above the Law. Second of a three-part series.

Vibe: Doesn’t it seem that beefs are an ingrained part of hip hop that comes from the survival instinct created by life in the ’hood?

The Game: Not necessarily. I think that beef has been healthy in hip hop for the duration of hip hop’s existence. I think all the way back to Busy Bee and KRS-One and Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J and guys like that, I think that beef has been healthy. It was not until the early demises of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace that beef took a turn for the worse, and ever since then it’s left a bad taste in people’s mouths. But take the beef with myself and 50 Cent, or Eminem and Ja Rule: there’s been no casualties with those beefs, so I think beef is healthy as long as it doesn’t turn devastating. I beefed with the top artists in the game and have annihilated the biggest group and now it’s time to get back to making music, and remember what got me here, which is to stay humble, hungry, work hard—that breeds success and classic records. On the verge of this new album, Doctor’s Advocate, I think I’m right back where I want to be, writing and presenting the right message. And when the album drops it’s going to be very, very, very, very monumental, what this album and the last album as a package do to hip hop.

Vibe: There’s a rumor that there are Dre beats on the album, but he’s not credited.

The Game: No. False. No Dre beats on the album. No Dre production. No Dre influence. No Dre anything on this album.

Vibe: But there must be substantial material you and Dre created together in the early stages of working on this album. Stuff in the vaults…

The Game: Maybe. I’ll leave that for Dre to say. For that interview you get with Dre one day.
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The MC on everything from Lil Eazy E to 50 Cent to cassette tapes to Compton to Serena Williams. The first of a three-part series.

The Game: Let’s talk while we walk.…

Vibe: So…You put out the "It's Okay (One Blood)" Remix. Did you reachout to guys yourself to make this happen?

Game: I wanted the “One Blood” remix to be what “Self Destruction” was back in the day, to be what “We All in the Same Gang” was, what the “Scenario” remix was—hip hop. I wanted every artist that I’ve befriended in the hip hop game to be on this song. We got everybody, man. We’ve got Jim Jones, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Fat Joe, Lil Wayne, Twista, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Jadakiss and Styles P, Tha Dogg Pound, WC, E-40, T.I., Young Dro, Pitbull, and Ja Rule, and there are other people on it.

Vibe: Who did you reach out to first?

Game: I reached out to 50 first.

Vibe: What?

Game: Yeah. I tried to see whether he was going to be a part of the remix, man. Chris Lighty, his manager, thought me and Jimmy Henchmen was joking. He ended up saying no, which I expected, but I wanted to sort of be funny and reach out and see if he’d do it.

Vibe: Why would you expect him to say no?

Game: Because me and 50—that’s my archnemesis, yo. We in the same room, we kill each other. But I’m such a funny guy, I thought I’d do it anyway—just to say I did it.
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