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    "articleBody": "The Game made an album named after Dr. Dre without a single Dr. Dre beat on it, and it still went straight to No. 1. Doctor’s Advocate, the Compton rapper’s second studio album, came out on November 14, 2006, through Geffen Records and turns 20 today. It sold 358,000 copies in its first week in the United States and opened at the top of the US albums chart, matching the run of his 2005 debut The Documentary. It also reached No. 1 on the R&B/hip hop and rap album charts, and No. 2 in Canada. A label move forced by a falling-out The Documentary had arrived in January 2005 through Aftermath, G-Unit and Interscope, with Dr. Dre as executive producer and 50 Cent on three of its singles. The partnership did not survive the year. 50 Cent removed the Game from G-Unit, the two traded diss records and mixtapes for months, and by the summer of 2006 the Game had left Aftermath. To end his contractual ties to G-Unit, he was moved from Interscope to its sister label Geffen, part of the same Universal Music Group division. That move is why the follow-up reads like an open letter. The Game is credited as executive producer alongside his manager Jimmy Rosemond, and Dre’s name turns up on every song except “Wouldn’t Get Far.” Dre associate Busta Rhymes guests on the title track, which J.R. Rotem produced around a sample from the Set It Off soundtrack. Who made the beats instead Without Dre, the Game went back to four producers from his debut, Kanye West, Just Blaze, Scott Storch and Hi-Tek, and added will.i.am, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khalil, Nottz, Reefa, Jellyroll, Mr. Porter and E.P. Pope. The result leans harder into West Coast sound than The Documentary did, with guest spots from Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound next to Nas, Jamie Foxx and Kanye. A few credits are worth knowing: “Compton,” produced by will.i.am, pulls from Eazy-E’s “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” and the Winstons’ “Amen, Brother.” “Remedy,” a Just Blaze beat, lifts from Isaac Hayes and Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos.” “Wouldn’t Get Far” uses Creative Source’s “I’d Find You Anywhere”; Kanye West has said the beat was first made for Common. The closer, “Why You Hate the Game” with Nas and Marsha Ambrosius, runs 9 minutes 22 seconds. Three singles, one long tail “It’s Okay (One Blood),” built on Junior Reid’s reggae hook, came out on July 24, 2006, and peaked at No. 71 on the Hot 100. “Let’s Ride,” co-written with Scott Storch and modeled on Dre’s 1993 “Let Me Ride,” climbed to No. 46. “Wouldn’t Get Far” followed in December and reached No. 64. None was a smash, yet by October 2007 the album had sold 969,000 copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures, and it finished 2007 at No. 48 on the year-end albums chart. Reviews were mostly warm: the album holds an average of 73 out of 100 across 20 reviews tracked by a review aggregator. Several critics pointed out that it sounded as expensive as its predecessor despite Dre’s absence. The Game himself called it the best album of his career in 2012. Where it sits in 2006 For a sense of how crowded that autumn was, Doctor’s Advocate shares its exact release date with Akon’s Konvicted, which went 6× Platinum on the back of “Smack That”, and landed one week before Jay-Z’s comeback album Kingdom Come and its 680,000-copy first week. The man in the title had his own landmark seven years earlier; our look at Dr. Dre’s 2001 and the album that kept it off No. 1 covers that story. Taken together, the numbers show what Badiyaa finds most telling about this record: a 16-track album recorded after leaving Dre’s label still opened 358,000 copies strong without a Dre production credit anywhere in its 73-minute running time, and gave the Game a second straight No. 1. His next album, LAX, followed in August 2008. Further reading Wikipedia: Doctor's Advocate Image: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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