Last week, Game dropped his tribute song for the slain Ferguson teenager, Mike Brown. The song, Don't Shoot, featured about a dozen of his rap colleagues like Fabolous, Rick Ross, Wale, Curren$y, and a host of other rappers. In a recent interview Hot 93.7 radio in Connecticut, Game spoke on the tragedy that happened in Ferguson, Missouri, and also spoke on how he put the song together.
"One thing came to my mind when I heard about what happened, well two things. Number one, it was just a shock. It was wild, like, ‘Not again.’ I had the same reaction as everybody else in the world when they heard it, well most people. My second reaction was, I remember when I was young and we had so many deaths going around in Compton, L.A., Watts. So we had this ‘We’re All in the Same Gang’ song right?...I just thought, ‘Wow, I can do this.’ I got a lot of cool relationships with people. I think that I can reach out to every artist I know to see if they’ll be a part of this song. I wanted to make it to where you guys would still play it on the radio but get enough people on it so it was impactful and it looked like we were a group and doing it and representing Hip Hop. So I just started reaching out. I reached out to Diddy first because of course that’s like my big brother as far as him being a mentor and mogul and the direction I wanted to go with the song. I slid it past him, once he okayed it I hit Rozay, and Wale, 2 Chainz, and Yo Gotti. I was in the studio with Curren$y and asked him if he wanted to be a part of it. He was like, ‘Hell yes.’ It just came together organically man. I put that song together in three days. Everybody I asked to do it turned it right around. I couldn’t wait to put it out for the world to hear.”
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