Recording
On May 11, 2007, Game was arrested at his home reportedly in connection with an incident at a basketball game in South Los Angeles in February 2007. He is alleged to have threatened a person with a gun. The arrest took place after his home was searched for three hours. Game was released early the next day after posting $50,000 bail. On January 9, 2008, a Los Angeles judge scheduled February 4 as the beginning date for Game's trial on assault and weapons charges. After pleading no contest to a felony weapons charge on February 11, Game was sentenced to 60 days in jail, 150 hours of community service, and three years probation. It was reported near mid-March that The Game had been released from jail. His manager later stated that he had not yet been but was expected to be released in time to promote the album.
He was released after serving eight days, and went back to work with Cool & Dre. Dre (of Cool & Dre), stated The Game was like 'Pac, and that lyrically, he was " else right now". On July 28, 2008, The Game told J Hyphen and J. Moore of Sunday Night Sound Sessions that the album was finished and the official release date was August 26. He said the album was going to be 16 tracks long and he would leak the clean version two weeks before the official release. The Game mentioned that he recorded over 220 tracks for the album. Recording artists reported to have participated in the sessions for LAX at one time or another included at first Nu Jerzey Devil had stated that Lil Wayne would be making a guest appearance. It was later confirmed that Akon, André 3000, Busta Rhymes, Chris Brown, Chrisette Michele, Common, Ice Cube, Keyshia Cole, DMX, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Marsha Ambrosius, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Ne-Yo, Raekwon, Raheem DeVaughn, Fabolous, and Robin Thicke were all to make appearances, however they did not all make the final cut on the album. Although Travis Barker, Bilal, Keyshia Cole, Common, Raheem DeVaughn, DMX, Ice Cube, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Chrisette Michele, Nas, Ne-Yo, Raekwon, and LaToiya Williams are the only guests on the album.
Record producers who participated at the album's recording sessions with The Game included Jelly Roll, Nottz, DJ Toomp, J. R. Rotem, Scott Storch, Kanye West, 1500 or Nothin', Travis Barker, DJ Quik, Knobody, Dahoud Darien, Hi-Tek, Ervin "EP" Pope, Cool & Dre, Irv Gotti, Tre Beatz, and Trackmasters. The Game originally had announced that Dr. Dre would be producing for the album, but neither Dr. Dre nor Aftermath Entertainment had confirmed. Nu Jerzey Devil also later confirmed Dr. Dre as a producer. On May 1, 2008 The Game told Power 106 that at the time he had worked with Just Blaze, Kanye West, Cool & Dre, Scott Storch, Timbaland, Knobody, Ervin "E.P." Pope, JellyRoll & Tre Beatz. At a listening party on June 23, 2008 it was mentioned that the Trackmasters were in part of the production of the album.
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