{"id":3553,"date":"2012-04-16T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2012-04-16T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:08:31","slug":"the-game-california-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"The Game: California Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cover1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cover1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cover1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cover1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mixtape: California Republic<br \/>\nArtist: The Game<br \/>\nReleased: April 4, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Was kind of skeptical about <strong>The Game\u2019s<\/strong> tape California Republic, but I was presently surprised that it\u2019s a really good mixtape. He has pretty much everyone in the game featured on this tape from <strong>Nipsey<\/strong>, <strong>Lupe Fiasco<\/strong>, <strong>Shyne<\/strong>, and <strong>Rick Ross<\/strong>, to <strong>Fabolous<\/strong>, <strong>Fat Joe<\/strong>, <strong>Lyfe Jennings<\/strong>, and many more as well, but none the less its dope. There isn\u2019t a lot of good gangsta rap out there and I\u2019m glad <strong>The Game<\/strong> still represents that; since the beginning, and this tape should have definitely been an album but what can you do. One nice track that caught my attention is \u201cSkate On\u201d it features <strong>Lupe Fiasco<\/strong>, who kind of murders <strong>Game<\/strong> on his own song- but it\u2019s still sick. More tracks to check out are \u201cIt Must Be Tough\u201d featuring <strong>Pharrell<\/strong> and <strong>Mysonne<\/strong>, produced by <strong>The Neptunes<\/strong>, and also \u201cCome Up\u201d featuring <strong>Drake<\/strong> and <strong>Lifestyle<\/strong> that\u2019s produced by <strong>Boi 1Da<\/strong>. Get California Republic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemixtapes.com\/mixtapes\/16715\/the_game_california_republic.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Courtney Deleon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixtape: California Republic Artist: The Game Released: April 4, 2012 Was kind of skeptical about The Game\u2019s tape California Republic, but I was presently surprised that it\u2019s a really good mixtape. He has pretty much everyone in the game featured on this tape from Nipsey, Lupe Fiasco, Shyne, and Rick Ross, to Fabolous, Fat Joe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}