The Game Targets Kendrick Lamar on New Album "The Documentary III," With a Drake Hook on "No Brakes"

The Game's new album "The Documentary III" takes direct aim at Kendrick Lamar and features a track with Drake, as Rolling Stone reported on 21 August 2026.

The album includes a song titled "No Brakes" featuring Drake, who provides the hook but no verses. The collaboration extends a relationship the two rappers have maintained for over a decade, dating back to their 2015 single "100." During his July Verzuz battle against YG, The Game performed that earlier collaboration and shouted out Drake to the Los Angeles crowd, according to the same Rolling Stone report.

The new record carries an extra layer of history. In 2011, The Game stood alongside Snoop Dogg and other West Coast veterans for a ceremonial passing of the torch to Kendrick Lamar — a moment that now sits in tension with the bars aimed at the Compton rapper on "The Documentary III." A decade earlier, The Game's 2015 album "The Documentary 2" featured guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Kanye West and Drake, as Rolling Stone reported at the time.

"The Documentary III" is The Game's first proper studio album since 2022's "Drillmatic — Heart vs. Mind" and his first entry in the Documentary series since 2015. Earlier this year, he released "Gangsta Grillz: E.M.N.T. — The Credits," an expanded edition of his DJ Drama and Mike & Keys project "Every Movie Needs a Trailer."

The album lands in a landscape still shaped by the Kendrick-Drake feud that escalated in 2024. In May 2026, Drake released three albums at once — "Iceman," "Habibti" and "Maid of Honour" — with "Iceman" as the lead project, his first solo album since that feud, as Rolling Stone and the BBC reported. "Iceman" arrived two years after Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us," which became the defining strike in their exchange. Rolling Stone reported that "Iceman" takes shots at Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky, DJ Khaled and others.

Kendrick Lamar, for his part, released his sixth studio album "GNX," which does not name Drake, as Rolling Stone noted in February 2025. The beef between the two rappers has since crossed into broader pop culture: their diss tracks appeared as a clue on the US game show "Jeopardy!" in July 2024, and Rolling Stone published a feature on "Not Like Us: The Game," a web-based whack-a-mole clone built around imagery from the song's music video.

For The Game, picking a side on "The Documentary III" — and bringing Drake along for the hook — puts a West Coast veteran squarely inside a conflict that has already pulled in audiences well beyond rap's usual boundaries.