Should The Game Throw Fists with Wack 100?!

Jayceon “The Game” Taylor wants a fight apparently. It seems as if he wants to go to blows with both Wack 100 and Suge Knight based on his response to Wack 100’s Instagram post. Now, this may seem like all kinds of posturing and saber ratlling, but the truth is that Taylor is a hothead known for getting in verbal quarrels and sexual assault cases.

What Wack 100 seems to be doing is to attack Suge Knight digitally. Knight is at the center of his ire. Taylor just jumped in and said that he would take on both men. Whether he was saying it playfully doesn’t matter. What he wants is to brew enough clicks and taps so that he can gain the relevance that he once had. As never a factor in the rap arena, he did possess a certain quality for putting out somewhat quality music.

Taylor wants to embroil himself in actual conflict that will alter his position in the hip hop hierarchy. If he gets into a fistfight with Wack 100, that would send a signal to the entire West Coast rap scene that he is trying too hard. His bloated last project Drillmatic (2022) didn’t perform as well on the charts as expected, reaching only in the Top 20 in the US.

If he is going to smarten up, he should be able to parlay his name in the news as of late to battle his numerous run-ins with the law. In the minds of individuals in the hip hop genre, it remains to be a consensus that Taylor could have been a great rapper while still respecting and working with 50 Cent. In the time that he has disbanded from his former mentor, he has piled up enough credible albums and singles to have solidified him as a bonafide rapper. But that doesn’t mean that he is a great but just a good rapper. And for him to pick fights with Wack and maybe Suge, it appears that he’s grasping at vapors.

If Taylor wants to be a factor, he would have to do much more. Would founding more charities and possibly finding a nineteen-year-old boyfriend be conducive to the nature of the hip hop world now? Should he laser in on not picking fights but concerning himself with studying artificial intelligence? Whatever Taylor has in mind, it ought to be about restoring his image and realizing that he once had a spark but is sliding closer to the garbage heap.

With so much drama going down on the West Coast, the figures should be applauded as the East Coast, especially New York City, celebrates fifty years of hip hop. While the press may seem negative, that is what the bloggers and vloggers thrive on nowadays. It is time for Taylor to use this bit of clickbait to refortify whatever tower he had erected almost two decades ago with his debut The Documentary (2005). With the attention span of fanatics and supporters alike shorter than a millisecond, Taylor will have to claw his way into the consciousness of his base while still reaching people outside of it.

A possible fight with Wack 100 would most likely be a detriment to Taylor. He will stumble backwards, even if it is organized and done for charity. But a scuffle in the streets would only worsen the ties that Taylor already has with West Coast figures like Wack.

To take into account the fact that Taylor has been trying to keep his name in rap circles and across the Internet, it appears that he could be gaining steam just by being controversial and not actually see through any kinds of drastic measures like throwing fists.