The Game has revealed he was left out by Dr. Dre in the ‘Beats’ headphone deal with Apple, despite him being around when it was created.
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine made history in 2014 after they sold Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion in what was one of the biggest deals in the industry. The deal included $2.6 billion in cash and $400 million in Apple stock, with Dre and Jimmy Iovine also hired as executive employees at Apple.
The deal might have happened 11 years ago, but former Dr. Dre’s Aftermath signee, The Game, has still not gotten over the fact that he was left out of the deal despite being around when Beats was created.
Guest on the All The Smoke podcast, the Compton rapper revisited the topic while trying to point out why Kanye West has helped him in his career in a short period more than Dr. Dre ever did.
“I could remember being signed to Aftermath and being damn near broke. I’m not saying it was Dre’s fault, but ni**as weren’t putting no ni**as on with no money. I wasn’t part of Dre’s Beats headphones deal, but I was in the room when ni**as were creating it. I’m not saying ni**as owe me anything. Like the Super Bowl deal, I didn’t feel like ni**as owed me because I was not there; I just felt like it was weird I wasn’t there,”
He continued.
Dr. Dre and The Game have had a complicated relationship ever since The Game left Aftermath in 2006. The Game has always admitted he respects Dr. Dre but has however always called him out at every chance he gets, claiming his former boss always ‘left him out of rooms’ during his time at the label.
“Dr. Dre always left me out of the room in conversations. Even with Jimmy Iovine and Dre back in the day, those rooms that 50 and Eminem were allowed to walk in, they always left me out,”
Said The Game on the I Am Athlete Podcast.
