The Game featuring Ne-Yo “Camera Phone”
The Game & Ne-Yo had a decent enough single already in their pocket with L.A.X. album track, “Gentleman’s Affair” (sure the very colorful lyrics would have needed to be cleaned up, but still…); so why is the set’s fourth release instead falling on “Camera Phone”, a “bonus cut” that was only found on the album’s more expensive “Deluxe Edition”? Siiiiigh, Reason No. 5,067 why today’s music industry is in such bad shape.
Nevertheless, the cheek-inked West Coast rhymer and Grammy’s new favorite R&B nice guy show off more of their solid “opposites attract” chemistry on this unfortunately-titled, but still favorable, cut, bobbing and weaving throughout the beat’s uzi-fire drum rattle and liquidy soul noise as they cavort through the night in their respective expensive rides, gleefully stealing other men’s women while agreeing to pose for pics for the ladies’ cells.
“If I’m on her screen saver/ That mean later we gone,” Ne-Yo devilishly warn-croons to the beaus-at-home (That’s not very gentleman-ly, Mr. Yo); meanwhile, just when you thought Game had grown past littering his lyrics with those numerous name-drops, he somewhat sours a slick, rapid-fire flow (amusingly reminiscent of 50 Cent’s “AYO Technology” vocal pattern) by ripping through a listing of his ideal R&B pin-ups (“She so Ciara, so Eve/ So Mariah, so Be…”).
Industry and Game vents aside, this smooth collabo, like the aforementioned “Affair”, kills, while also triggering the gut feeling that an announcement for yet another “Best of Both World”-styled duet LP (that’ll probably never ever actually reach fruition, like all the others) is just around the corner.
Snatch up the equally hot Urban Noize remix below:
DL: “Camera Phone (Urban Noize Remix)” (alt)
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