The anniversary for this album was actually last month, but I unfortunately missed it. But since nobody else has posted about it, I figured that I might as well post about it now.

“The Game Is… Thick, Part 2” was released on October 19, 2004, making it the last album of Mac Dre’s lifetime, as just 13 days after this album’s release, Mac Dre would be murdered by an unknown assailant while driving on a freeway in Kansas City, Missouri shortly after a performance.

The album’s name is a nod to local Bay Area rapper The MAC, a close associate of Mac Dre who had an EP from 1988 titled “The Game Is Thick,” who was murdered in 1991.

The album is perhaps best known for the song “Hotta Den Steam” featuring PSD, which was originally released on Mac Dre’s 2000 album “Heart of a Gangsta, Mind of a Hustla, Tongue of a Pimp,” but was remastered for The Game is Thick with an enhanced beat and better mixing, and has gone on to become one of Mac Dre’s most popular songs.

Tracklist:

Tha Introduction

Get Loud (ft. Bad Business)

Cutthoat Soup

Retro Dance Record

It Ain’t Funny (ft. Rydah J. Klyde)

Don’t Hate Tha Playa 2

Cal Bear

Hotta Den Steam (ft. PSD)

Fedi’s Theme (ft. Mob Figaz & Meezy Montana)

4 Much (ft. Yukmouth)

Screw-E-Boo-Boo (ft. Black Jesus)

Stool Pigeon (ft. Dubee)

Same Hood (ft. Vital)

What are your overall thoughts on this album? How do you think it holds up after 20 years?