Doctor's Advocate - Release and Promotion

Release and Promotion

As the release date of his heavily anticipated Doctor's Advocate approached, things got weird because of the G-Unit contract, nobody was sure if the album would say Aftermath Entertainment or Interscope Records on the back. Due to his disputes with 50 Cent, The Game left Aftermath Entertainment and signed with Geffen Records another label under Universal Music Group's Interscope-Geffen-A&M division to terminate his contractual obligations with G-Unit in the summer of 2006. The rapper's second album Doctor's Advocate was released on November 14, 2006 through Geffen Records.

While his big rival and former employer, 50 Cent, squandered his success by spreading himself too thin with video games, films, and a whole lot of time devoted to the G-Unit empire, The Game spent his time working the streets with beef-minded, sometimes-epic freestyles landing on mixtapes. Every time the G-Unit versus Game beef was just about to be settled, The Game showed up late to sign the treaty, and then, when he was called out on it, he would retaliate as hard as before, bringing everything back to square one. On November 7, 2005 The Game released a promotional Mixtape entitled Ghost Unit through 101 Distribution and West Side Entertainment. The Mixtape was used to promote his second studio album, Doctor's Advocate.

Also somewhere around 2006 The Game released another promotional mixtape album/DVD entitled Stop Snitchin–Stop Lyin through The Black Wall Street Records. The mixtape features artists like Lil' Kim, Ice Cube, Lil Rob, Chingy, WC, Paul Wall and others. The DVD is directed by Éngel Thedford of AREA51 Media Group. This mixtape is the third of three diss mixtapes aimed at the G-Unit members. It is quite possibly the most popular of the three due to the DVD advertisement. It also features disses by other Black Wall Street Members. Repeatedly DJ Clue? says "Come on Game it's the last one" suggesting there would be no more diss tracks or mixtapes aimed at G-Unit any more. The track "Niggaz Bleed" is a subliminal diss to Suge Knight. The mixtape was used to promote his second studio album, Doctor's Advocate. In 2006 the mixtape was certified platinum in Ireland, which sold 15,000 units and the DVD was also certified gold.