The Game – “I’m So Wavy (Jay-Z Diss)”
After four years of subliminal jabs, Game finally succumbed to his demons and unleashed a full-fledged Jay-Z diss. I couldn’t figure out if he was driven by the Vodka or by the desire to drum up publicity for a new album, so I summoned your neighborhood TRU Brain Trust to get their thoughts on “I’m So Wavy.” Dig in, it’s juicy.

Ivan:
Testing the waters to see if Jay will retaliate at his level, “I’m So Wavy” might just be a preamble of sorts to a follow-up of the no holds barred “My Bitch” from The Doctor’s Advocate era. Tame as a diss record, Chuck Taylor’s shots leave Jigga unscathed. Still, the groovy, retro beat and relatively lighthearted lyrics show that Game’s just having a little fun during downtime in Europe.

J to the AAP
Some jabs barely make sense (He doesn’t have a kid with B, y’all!) but the whole thing truly goes off the rails near the end when he takes a page from 50 Cent’s book and starts talking shit about some gossip he picked up. Worse still, Game sounds so angry and riled up that he forgets the nonchalant arrogance that usually makes this stuff funny when Fif does it. The funky sample on the beat is the only tolerable aspect of this song. “No one on the corner has swagger like you, ’cause no one on the corner is 42″ managed to get a slight smirk out of me, but if that’s the best Game can come up with, Jigga already won.

Dom Corleone:
If Jayceon put half the effort into fact-checking as he did name-dropping DJ’s, this “diss” would be halfway decent: Gucci Mane is not known for his incessant Aye’s, that’s OJ Da Juiceman, and Sean Carter is not even 40 yet, let alone 42. Game’s mention of “giraffe pussy” revokes his nearly-expired rap credentials indefinitely.

Nahshon:
I can tell that what Game did here was listen to some old school Eazy E and attempt to mimic the sound using today’s tools, but the song didn’t really work for me on a sonic level. I like that there was a different tone on this song vs. some of his earlier ones. He understands what it means to engage Hov as an enemy rather than simply firing off in his direction and hitting everyone who happens to stand in the way. He goes into detail on how he is specifically aiming this at Jay and gives passes to his associates, thereby limiting the number of directions that the Jiggaman can go for aid against the self-dubbed “Polo King”. He gets points, in my book, for having a well thought method to go about a really stupid plan.

On the flipside, this diss will continue to expose Game to the criticism that harps on his historical pattern of seemingly unstable “flip-flops” on issues and divergences from his own word. Beyond that, the song was just okay, which isn’t enough when dealing with the reigning king. People will view this as the impotent ambitions of an adolescent against a man who is simply out of his league. Had he waited, rather than taking his first bait, Chuck Taylor could have been in a different situation with a lot more public sympathy on his side, but he jumped in too early with too little and now Jay won’t even have to dignify what is actually one of the better diss songs (all things considered) to be released.

Andrew:
“I’m So Wavy” is exactly like the last fight I had with my girlfriend — The Game being symbolised by my girlfriend and Jay-Z being represented by me. She yelled at me for five whole minutes, saying all sorts of things about me and my character and everything I do wrong. Then after she exhausted herself by screaming herself hoarse she got really quiet for a second and meekly said “I just totally overreacted, didn’t I?” I nodded. We’re good now, but she did cook me dinner that night.

Rizoh
The Game is like Andrew’s girlfriend, except way more volatile. He’s predictably unstable, has no idea when to stop nagging, and never met a bait he couldn’t bite. If you can’t remember 2 lines from “I’m So Wavy,” then the song makes my case for me. All bite, no bark.

Black Barbie:
The Game lost me 26 seconds in, when he decided to do Gucci Mane’s ad-libs in a high pitched voice. *smh* Only good thing about this song is the beat. If you’re going to throw rocks at the throne, at least make sure the rocks are heavy and not made of play-doh, like his kindergarten-esque rhymes were. The Game just didn’t go hard enough for a diss record, with his elementary like rhymes that seem like they came from his very first rhyme book. This song was extremely painful to listen to and I feel like I wasted 4 minutes of time, that unfortunately I can’t get back. However, he does one helluva job mimicking Gucci. That imitation will be in my nightmares tonight.

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Elsewhere on the Web:
The Audio History Of The Game Vs. Jay-Z [The Smoking Section]
The Game: A History Of Beef [Complex]

Previous Brain Trust Sessions:
TRU Brain Trust – “Death of Auto-Tune”
TRU Brain Trust – “Film”
TRU Brain Trust – Ocean’s 7 Mixtape