The Game: "My Life" Wasn't a Diss Track to Em & Proof

This is the line that caused the controversy:

You see them 24’s spinning, I earned ‘em/All the pictures of me and Em, I burned them/So there ain't no proof I walked through 8 Mile/ And so since it ain't no Proof, I'll never walk through 8 Mile/

You really got be an idiot to not understand what he was trying to say here. I don't see any disrespectful comments here, all I see is how painful it is for him to go back to Detroit after the loss of big homey Proof.

Game felt obligated to release a statement to clear things up:

When I originally wrote the song “My Life” I was trying to think back on events that affected my life and how they changed me. When I first got signed to Aftermath and G-Unit I was exposed to so many different people from Dre to Em to 50 to Proof. I always identified with Proof. We were always cool and he would reach out to me when ever I was going through something I remember when Proof died vividly and now every time I think about going to Detroit I get depressed. That is what I was trying to say in that verse and the more I looked at I realized that people would take it the wrong way…the way they are taking it now that it leaked. So I decided to change it so that this bullshit wouldn’t happen and now it’s happened anyway. For the record, this is not the version on my album, this is not the version that radio will get and this is not the version that I just shot the video to. Furthermore, I apologize to anyone who took this the wrong way as that was never my intention.