With the arrival of The Game’s new mixtape, Every Movie Needs a Trailer, controversial right-wing political pundit Candace Owens has shared her thoughts on the song, “The Assassination of Candace Owens.”
In a recent live broadcast on YouTube, Owens highlighted the title of the track, which appears on the newly released project.
“I’m having the best year ever, or something,” she said when she brought up the song. “I don’t know. Why, the Game? Why’s it gotta be song number 13? What’s going on? This better not be predictive programming, okay? We know how Hollywood gets down.”
Owens, who famously once said Adolf Hitler “just wanted to make Germany great,” has promoted several conspiracy theories throughout her career. Most recently, she suggested that Israel was behind the assassination of her friend, Charlie Kirk.
During the stream, she highlighted Game’s explanation of the track title, especially the part where he said he wasn’t worried about her coming for him.
“There’s beef in these streets, okay?” she continued. “There’s beef in the streets, and you better be scared because maybe I am coming for you, okay? I could be coming for you. I might drop a whole album. I might drop a whole mixtape, too, okay?”
Ultimately, she conceded that she was flattered by having a song named after her, regardless of the context.
“I think it is a form of flattery, obviously I’m friends with [Kanye West], and he makes music, and they do use a lot of metaphors,” she said. “So, I’m not offended by this. Do I love the timing? Could I get a break for six months, maybe, and not have that title be there? Sure, but I’m totally okay with this. I think it’s kind of cool.”
She hadn’t heard the song at the time of the stream, and said that she hopes the lyrical content of the song is good, too.
“I hope the song lyrics are cool and it’s not a diss track, and it’s not gonna be like Eminem crying about me,” she said. “I look forward to the song. Also, feel free to use a little audio from the podcast; that would be cool. You could use a strip of me saying something. ‘Everything is fake and gay’ would be super, super fly. ‘Everything is fake and gay,’ please put that in the song, that’s my only request.”
Her name-dropping Eminem is a reference to his 2024 track “Lucifer,” in which he called her “Klandace,” “Grand Wizard,” and “Grand Dragon.”
Ahead of the arrival of the mixtape, the Game explained the track title in a quick interview with TMZ.
“Recently I’ve been seeing conspiracy theories about Candace Owens from herself, you know, self-admitted,” he said. “She feels like people are conspiring [against] her. So what it was is more so an assassination of the character. So I just used that because it’s current news, but the song is not about Candace. … I’m a rapper, we use metaphors, you know?”
He said he wasn’t “worried” about her coming for her, and said that she’s “real smart.”
In the song itself, Game doesn’t mention Candace Owens by name. He does, however, rap, “Truth is, truth hurts / It’s like a neck shot, who really killed Charlie Kirk?”
