The Game opened up about his past relationships, expressing regret for his intentions, or rather lack thereof.
While joined by Snoop Dogg, Matt Barnes, Deon Cole and Big Boy for the Sunday (Nov. 16) episode of Kirk Franklin's Den of Kings, the rapper discussed his guilt over leading women on. The father of four was once engaged to reality TV personality Tiffney Cambridge, the mother of two of The Game's children, and welcomed his youngest child, Blaze Taylor, with podcaster Shaniece Hairston last December.
Around the 26-minute mark of the podcast below, Franklin questioned whether women have an awareness of the "power" they hold when encountering a man's vulnerability.
"Sometimes, like when when I was in my 20s and my 30s, it was just an exchange," The Game replied. It was, 'Hey, hey, I'm giving you this. We having our moment and I'm going to get back to my life. You get back to yours.' No emotions 'cause you young. Everybody got their whole life ahead of them."
"When you get in your 40s, man, you start feeling like you womanizing and I'm taking emotions home with me, or she's taking emotions out the door with her if you are, you know, living that type of lifestyle," he continued.
The rapper, 45, added that he's "not sleeping good" after these transactional encounters.
"Because I feel like, 'Wow, I had no pure intentions for this person and this person is also late 30s or mid-30s and they got a life," he said. "And so when you got you know when you're young and you're dealing with a young woman ain't nobody tripping it's all good."
"But when you're older and you know that that woman has trauma from her past relationship and all of that and, dinner is cool, going out on the date is cool," The Game explained. "But then once you start getting intimate with people and you know for sure that they are invested in you even a little bit and you know you ain't talking to this person after tomorrow, man..."
Before the birth of his child with Hairston, 32, last August, the rapper contemplated how he'll be having a "different parenting experience" as a middle-aged man.
“I think about it in terms of years,” he said. “I’m 44. When my new child is 21, I’ll be 65," he said on podcast Tacos & Shawarma.
