The Documentary 2.5

The Documentary 2.5
Studio album by The Game
Released	October 16, 2015 (2015-10-16)
Recorded	2013–15
Studio	Record Room Studios (Miami, Florida) Chalice Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre	West Coast hip hop gangsta rap
Length	73:50
Label	Blood Money eOne
Producer	The Game (also exec.) Stat Quo (also exec.) Cash "Wack100" Jones (co-exec.) will.i.am The Alchemist Mr. Bangladesh Battlecat Bongo Skrillex Cool & Dre DJ Khalil DJ Mustard DJ Quik Fredwreck Mike & Keys G Koop S1 Kevin Bivona THX Tone Mason Travis Barker Nastradomas
The Game chronology
The Documentary 2 (2015) The Documentary 2.5 (2015) Streets of Compton (2016)
Singles from The Documentary 2.5
"El Chapo" Released: October 9, 2015

The Documentary 2.5 is the seventh studio album by American rapper The Game. It was released on October 16, 2015, by Blood Money Entertainment and eOne Music. The album is the second half for the two-piece project that was divided from the first half of his sixth album The Documentary 2 (2015). The album features guest appearances from will.i.am, Schoolboy Q and Problem, among others. The album was supported by the single: "El Chapo" with Skrillex.

Singles

The lead single from The Documentary 2.5, "El Chapo" was released on October 9, 2015. The song features a duet and a additional vocals from a disc jockey Skrillex, who also produced this track, alongside Mr. Bangladesh and Nastradomas.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	[3]
NOW	[4]
RapReviews	9/10[5]
HipHopDX	[6]
Zumic	[7]

The Documentary 2.5 received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.^[8]

Commercial performance

The Documentary 2.5 debuted at number 6 on the US Billboard 200, with 42,000 copies in pure album sales, and nearly sold 48,000 units, including streams in its first week.^[9] As of November 4, 2015, the album sold a total of 54,000 units in the United States.^[10]

Track listing

Notes

• "Like Father, Like Son 2" contains additional vocals performed by Harlem Caron Taylor and King Justice Taylor.
• Adam Turchin — saxophone's
• Koofreh Umoren — trumpet

Sample credits

• "Magnus Carlsen" contains samples of "Rocket Love" performed by Stevie Wonder.
• "Crenshaw / 808s and Cocaine" contains samples of "Power of Soul" performed by Idris Muhammed, and "Blow Your Head" performed by Fred Wesley and The J.B.s.
• "The Ghetto" contains samples of "Tower Of Power" performed by Sparkling in the Sand.
• "From Adam" conatins samples of "Who Made You Go" performed by Faith, Hope & Charity.
• "Up on the Wall" contains samples of "Get Down on It", written by James "J.T." Taylor, Ronald Bell, performed by Kool & the Gang.
• "Like Father, Like Son 2" contains samples of "Like Father, Like Son" performed by The Game.
• "Life" contains samples of "You Give Good Love" performed by Whitney Houston, and also "Some How Some Way" performed by his idol Jay-Z.
• "El Chapo" contains samples "Granada" performed by Frank Sinatra.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References