When I wrote for “Hate It or Love It” I wasn’t sure I wanted to put it on my album, because I was talking about, when I was growing up, that my mum a woman.
50 wrote his verse and put it on the frontĭue to its commercial success, the track received nominations for “Best Rap Collaboration” at the BET Awards, as well as the “Best Rap Song” and the “Best Rap Collaboration” at the 2006 Grammy’s. When you write songs from front to back, nine times out of ten times the third verse is the weakest. I write songs backward, I start with the third verse. I was in the back of this Escalade and I was just writing. In an interview with Complex, Game talked about writing the record: This song-along with “How We Do”-helped Game’s The Documentary go double platinum, reaching the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts in May 2005.
Backed by a soulful sample of The Trammps‘ 1972 song, “Rubber Band,” the track sees Game and 50 Cent celebrating their rags-to-riches story. “Hate It or Love It” was the third official single off Game’s 2005 debut album.