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The Game has had enough rap beefs, legal beefs and inner-crew beefs to feed a homeless shelter. Now, the rapper says his thugged-out modus operandi has changed for the positive and he’s tattooed a butterfly on his right cheek to represent that dramatic transformation. Across from the new symbol is a tattooed tear, an older sign, which embodies a number of negatives depending on what hood you hail from. Nevertheless, The Game talked to AllHipHop.com about his new tat and the update on everything from G-Unit to Mya to his next CD. He even reminded us of what he says happened in D.C.
AllHipHop.com: What’s the deal with the new butterfly tattoo on your face and the tears?
Game: Man, it just represents new life. I got the teardrop on some bad s**t, stupid s**t don’t even gotta go there but – it’s new life, man. After the shooting and s**t, and Hot 97, and all that, donatin’ money to the kids, [and] my son's birthday. And then I felt like, if in 2001 after I woke up out the coma and s**t; if a n***a wouldn’t a made it, if I [would’ve] died, I wouldn’t have---you know what I’m saying? Like, the Hip-Hop world, wouldn’t know Game, man. [There] wouldn’t be my son, he wouldn’t be alive, it wouldn’t be nothin’, man. So, it’s all about new life. I know mothaf**kers is questionin’ my ethics on the tattoo, ‘cause, y’know, the s**t is a butterfly on my cheek, but, y’know, you gotta know what it mean.
AllHipHop.com: Right, a butterfly is the evolution of the caterpillar.
Game: My grandmother passed away, like right after High School. She always [encouraged me] to write poems and s**t. And, you know, I had this one poem I had, one poem that she gave me, and it was something that my pops had wrote a long time ago and s**t, and it was about a butterfly. It was a poem that my pops wrote to my grandmother, so I stumbled upon this s**t, I felt obligated, and what my pops is sayin’, you know how a butterfly is the symbol of new life, a new beginning. I’m just tryin’ to live, man. I just wanna live to see my son [grow]. But at the same time, man, I’m not no follower, I’m a leader. I ain’t a soldier, I’m a general, so I’m gonna leave it at that, man.
AllHipHop.com: Right.
Game: But I don’t want nobody to think, uh, that I’m less gangsta or nothin’, because you know that I’ll break [their] f**kin’ face in half. [pause] I’m not tryin’ to get disrespectful. I’m just sayin’ that I’m shyin’ away from all that. I’m tryin’ to watch my steps, watch the things that I say, monitor the things that I do so that I don’t have the repercussions that I’ve had - $280 million, when I ain’t put one hand on the dude, and, y’know, the whole Hot 97 s**t, with my homeboy gettin’ shot, [and] I got shot in the leg. I believe in God, man, and I need to be a little bit more thankful, man, ‘cause a lotta people that ain’t here. There’s about a hundred thousand people that didn’t wake up with us this mornin’, man, and, that’s my reality man. So it’s all about new life and new beginning. Uh, I’m goin’ into my new project, workin’ on my new record, O.G. on it.
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