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State Your Name

By The Game · Targeting Memphis Bleek

State Your Name is a track by The Game with a diss section by The Game targeting Memphis Bleek. The recording also credits Lil Flip and Cassidy. The track belongs to The Game's early competitive exchanges with Memphis Bleek and artists associated with Roc-A-Fella Records.

ReleasedPending
Annotated2
ExplicitYes
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  1. 01

    [The Game]

    02

    (State your name gangsta)

    03

    The Game

    04

    (Where you from nigga?)

    05

    Westcoast

  2. 06

    (You gon' hold it down?)

    07

    We always do around this time

  3. 08

    [The Game]

    Multi-line diss block
    09

    I ain't leaving motherfucker, I'm back

    10

    You've been away to long, I can't do nothin' bout that

    11

    The hood askin' me Why I do Bleek a tragedy?

    12

    Than drive over Brooklyn Bridge with Cassidy

    Block notePoints to a claimed failure or contradiction

    TargetMemphis Bleek

    MeaningWhat it means: In “You've been away to long, I can't do nothin' bout that,” The Game treats the refusal, inability, or contradiction named in the lyric as evidence against Memphis Bleek's public position. Why it was said: The track belongs to The Game's early competitive exchanges with Memphis Bleek and artists associated with Roc-A-Fella Records. The wording tests Memphis Bleek's image against a specific action; the gap between the two is what the audience is being asked to remember.

    ContextThe track belongs to The Game's early competitive exchanges with Memphis Bleek and artists associated with Roc-A-Fella Records.

  4. 13

    I rode down flushin', in a Rove down flushin'

    14

    The hood show me love like I was Hova down flushin'

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    Compton's Most, where the Yonkers flow

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    And I got love for Queens and the Bronx fo' sho'

  5. 17

    Got squares blowing that Cali Drove muahfucker

    18

    And I off shot like Aly Mo at the rucker

    19

    Yeah the bird Flipper in Houston with the surve sipper

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    I'm nice around Mikes words in pimpin'

  6. 21

    Got a mean knuckle game, I learn my dipppin'

    Multi-line diss block
    22

    In '87, when Tommy Hearns was stickin'

    23

    I hear niggas dissin', why you have to use Jay?

    24

    Let that man retire

    Block noteUses a pointed question as an accusation

    TargetMemphis Bleek

    MeaningWhat it means: In “I hear niggas dissin', why you have to use Jay?,” The Game puts Memphis Bleek's conduct on trial through a question that is meant as a challenge, not a neutral request for information. Why it was said: The track belongs to The Game's early competitive exchanges with Memphis Bleek and artists associated with Roc-A-Fella Records. The question shifts the burden onto Memphis Bleek: any answer must accept the premise raised in the lyric or explain why that premise is false.

    ContextThe track belongs to The Game's early competitive exchanges with Memphis Bleek and artists associated with Roc-A-Fella Records.

  7. 25

    Motherfucka its a new day

  8. 26

    [Lil' Flip]

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    (State your name gangsta)

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    Lil' Flipper

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    (Where you representin'?)

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    Houston all day

  9. 31

    (You gon' hold it down?)

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    You damn right

  10. 33

    [Lil' Flip]

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    I take it back to the block, them automaitcs'll pop

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    You try to snatch my watch, yo dumbass gettin' shot

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    I got the block on lock, and when the shit get hot

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    Ima switch up spots, I'm your boy

  11. 38

    I'm breakin' bread with my homies, I'm bustin' lead at you phonies

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    I fuck your bitch when she lonely

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    That's every other night

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    I flip your wife for the green

  12. 42

    They call me Hustle Man

    43

    Nigga, my money too big for a rubber man

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    I'm a veteran giving fiends they medicine

    45

    I'm in Compton with Game bumpin' Let Me In

  13. 46

    My nigga Will in the pen, he bout to come home

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    Hey tell these niggas I made a million of a ring tones

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    I got a spring home down in Tampa Bay

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    And I was raised out of Scarface and UGK

  14. 50

    Now its my turn, I want that puff money

    51

    Matter 'fact that ain't even enough money

  15. 52

    [Cassidy]

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    Yeah

    54

    (State your name gangsta)

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    Cassidy, nigga

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    (Where you representin'?)

  16. 57

    Philly, Pennsylvania

    58

    (You gon' hold it down?)

    59

    You already know

  17. 60

    [Cassidy]

    61

    The streets wave their head cast, cause they know the industry fear Cass

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    I got these chicks cryin' like tear gas

    63

    Used to sell dirt weed, couldn't even put it in clear bags

    64

    But years passed now my dubs puffy like air bags

  18. 65

    You might see me out in Houston on Flip Block

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    With a ?? old school drop with the ripped top

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    Forget it I got shit locked, admit it my shit hot

    68

    I'm the bestest nigga since BIG, Pac

  19. 69

    Out in tha Westcoast with Game, I let the toaster bang ya

    70

    Cut you more times than the cards in a pocker game

    71

    Cause most you lames when and saw my battle with Free

    72

    Now all you wanna battle for free

  20. 73

    You see if you ain't got millions to bet, or put your deal on the desk

    74

    You ain't real and I don't feel you a threat

    75

    So I suggest you get off my dick and go vote or somethin'

    76

    'Fore you get the sawed off and tossed out a boat or somethin' (nigga)