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Cam'ron protege Juelz Santana, the charismatic junior member of Harlem's Diplomat Set crew, follows up Killa Cam's 2004 oddball classic, Purple Haze, with an excellent disc of club-bangers and street parables. While overlong at twenty-one tracks -- almost all of them about hustlin', grindin' and, well, hustlin' -- Santana keeps the energy up with a gruff delivery, zany flow and weird observations ("I don't know a lot about the Internet/I just know how much I'm into sex"). Dipset's in-house producers Heatmakerz provide beats for five tracks, including the blazing "Oh Yes," which chops up the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," and "Daddy," which loops Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" like it was an old soul sample. The first two singles -- the Jeep shakers "There It Go (The Whistle Song)" and "Mic Check" -- are full of Santana's trademark brags, like "I blow smoke to the heavens/ I'm so close to perfection/ Rap's one big casino/I'm plottin' Ocean's Eleven." By the end of What the Game's Been Missing, you don't doubt that Santana can pull it off.
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Track List
- Intro (Juelz Santana/What The Game's Been Missing)
- Rumble Young Man Rumble
- Oh Yes
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Shottas (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Clockwork
- Kill'Em
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This Is Me (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Make It Work For You
- Whatever U Wanna Call It
- Gangsta Sh*t
- Lil' Boy Fresh
- Good Times
- Freaky
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Murda Murda (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Gone
- Kid Is Back
- Changes
- I Am Crack
- There It Go (The Whistle Song)
- Violence
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Daddy (track not available in Rhapsody)
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Mic Check (track not available in Rhapsody)
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