The Game Was Made to Choose Between 50 Cent's Diss and Eminem's — Then Named a Third Rapper as the Only One Who Ever Got Him

A fourteen-minute segment, one loaded question, and a much better answer immediately after it that nobody clipped.

UPROXX's Sound Check is built on a simple format: the host, Jeremy Hecht, plays a guest pairs of songs, forces a choice, and tries to guess their "lifetime anthem" at the end. On the episode published August 31, 2026, the guest was The Game, and one of the pairings was two diss records aimed at him — one by 50 Cent, one by Eminem.

The framing was explicit. The host set it up as: "I got to know which one of these two songs were you more impressed by — the bars." Not which hurt more. Which had better bars.

His answer, in full

The segment starts at 6:18:

The Game: "A lot of people over the years try to imitate my voice. Even — you know what's crazy? Even AI. AI gets close. I've seen some people trying to do it with AI and it gets pretty close. So I think I got to go with 50 on that."

"He did pretty good, I'm not gonna lie. He did so good that when we start playing it, I thought it was me for a second. Then I remembered — that's the 50 diss."

So he picked 50 Cent, and the stated reason is the impersonation — 50's vocal mimicry of him was convincing enough that Game briefly mistook it for his own voice. That is a real compliment, but it is a compliment about performance, not writing. He was asked about bars and answered about a voice.

He then moved straight to the relationship rather than the record:

The Game: "The thing that people get misconstrued about me and 50 is that when we had a problem, we really had a problem. It was really amongst, like, brothers. But at that time it could have went either way. We really wanted to hurt each other. But twenty years later — he's comedic. I got humour, he's a troll, I'll troll. We just don't really fuck with each other like that. He fucks with everybody, but he don't really fuck with Game. And I'm caught up on Force. I watch Power."

That is a man declining to relitigate a beef he has clearly made peace with, while still watching the other guy's television shows. Fair enough.

50 was not exactly careful about spreading shots around back then, either. An alleged original version of "Back Down" surfaced in September with Jay-Z, Nas and Cam'ron all in the crosshairs, and here is what is on it and why nobody has authenticated it yet.

The part everyone skipped

Here is the exchange that came immediately after, and it is a far better piece of tape than the one that got clipped.

The host followed up: if you had to give credit to the best diss ever aimed at you, is it that song, or is there another one where you'd say — they got me.

The Game: "I think that was more like funny. I don't think anybody's ever put out something that's notable where you can just say they really got me."

Host: "No one ever killed The Game. We can definitely say that."

The Game: "Can you say that? Did somebody ever put out a diss towards me that ever just hit and everybody was just like, nah, it's over? I think the best version was Hov. I think it was the 'Dear Summer' freestyle at Hot 97. He was like, 'keep playing these childish games with grown men, keep playing these childish games, you can't win, The Game…' I thought that was creative. And I even thought it was more dope 'cause Hov was dissing me. I was in a dope spot, bro — like nineteen years old. I was a fan and still am. Jay is incredible, man, one of the best artists ever."

"So yeah, man, I just appreciate the bloodsport aspect of it. 50 tried, Hov tried, but here I am."

Read that back. Asked to name the diss record that actually landed on him across a career full of them, The Game named Jay-Z's "Dear Summer" freestyle on Hot 97 — and characterised being dissed by Jay-Z at nineteen as a career highlight.

Eminem's record does not enter that answer at all. Neither, ultimately, does 50's; Game files it under "funny." The honest summary of the segment is not "The Game picked 50 Cent's diss over Eminem's." It is "The Game ranked both of them below a Jay-Z freestyle, and said neither of them got him."

The context behind the Eminem entry

Worth remembering how that record came to exist at all. In August 2022, on Drillmatic – Heart vs. Mind, The Game released "The Black Slim Shady," a roughly ten-minute Eminem diss that did not land well even with people in his own corner, and he had been saying on podcasts that Eminem's music never gets played in clubs.

Eminem let it sit for almost a year. The reply came in August 2023, and not as a dedicated diss record but as a guest verse on Ez Mil's "Realest," where he answered the club argument without using Game's name at all: "And that is the only retort, is I'm not played in the clubs… only reason they still play your shit in the clubs is 'cause you still perform in 'em." Same verse, he also took shots at Melle Mel and Lord Jamar.

That is a very different kind of record from 50's, which is a full-length impersonation piece — 50 doing Game's voice for an entire song. Asked to compare them on bars, Game praised the impersonation. It is not a dodge exactly, but it is not an answer either, and the follow-up question is where he actually told the truth.

One more thing the segment threw up

Later in the episode, the host ran a bracket of debut solo rap albums, feeding them to Game one at a time to see which survived. The run went: Illmatic beat Reasonable Doubt and Ready to Die; Get Rich or Die Tryin' beat Illmatic; College Dropout beat Get Rich; Doggystyle beat College Dropout and then held off Section.80, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and 2Pacalypse Now; The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill beat Doggystyle; It's Dark and Hell Is Hot beat Miseducation; and The Chronic closed it out.

The Slim Shady LP was never offered. Neither was any Eminem album. In a bracket that found room for Section.80 and 2Pacalypse Now, the highest-selling debut-era rap catalogue of the last thirty years did not make the card — which is, in its own quiet way, the same argument Ray Daniels was making on Drink Champs five days earlier, just made by an omission instead of a speech.

His lifetime anthem, for the record, was Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Tha Crossroads." The host guessed it correctly.

Sources. Quotes are from the episode embedded above — UPROXX Sound Check with The Game, August 31, 2026; diss segment 6:20–8:55, album bracket 10:25–11:45. Jay-Z's "Dear Summer" freestyle aired on Hot 97 in 2005. "The Black Slim Shady": Drillmatic, August 12, 2022. Eminem on Ez Mil's "Realest": August 4, 2023.