"Hate It or Love It" | ||||
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Single by the Game featuring 50 Cent | ||||
from the album The Documentary | ||||
Released | January 28, 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2004 | |||
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Length | 3:26 | |||
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"Hate It or Love It" is a song by American rapper the Game featuring fellow American rapper 50 Cent. It was released as the third single from the former's debut studio album The Documentary (2005). The song was produced by Cool & Dre with additional production from Dr. Dre. The song features a music sample of "Rubber Band" by the Trammps from their album The Legendary Zing Album (1975).
"Hate It or Love It" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, becoming the Game's second top ten song on the chart as a lead artist and 50 Cent's eighth. It is the Game's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 to date. The song was kept from the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 by another 50 Cent single, "Candy Shop". "Hate It or Love It" reached the number one spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, making it yet again another top ten hit on the chart alongside "How We Do" which also featured 50 Cent. Outside of the United States, "Hate It or Love It" peaked within the top ten of the charts in multiple countries, including the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
At the 2006 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for two Grammy Awards, including Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group but lost in both categories to Kanye West's "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" and the Black Eyed Peas' "Don't Phunk with My Heart", respectively.
The song first began to be conceived during the middle period of the recording process for The Documentary, [1] in early 2004, during a recording process in which the Game would frequently fly to recording locations in New York City to work with 50 Cent: he would be given beats to hear along the way, to help inspire him. When he initially heard the production that would later become "Hate It or Love It", he did not display much interest, as he was "in a different mind frame" — conceiving more "hard hitting" records. [1] However, on the flight home later that day, he took more of an interest and began to write the first components of the song. [1]
The chorus is rapped and written by 50 Cent, who helped with the rest of the writing process and recording for the song along with the Game at his mansion in Connecticut. [1] The song was even suggested for 50 Cent's album The Massacre (2005), [1] due to 50 Cent's large artistic input.
When the Game arrived at the mansion on the day of recording, 50 Cent presented him with several already part-completed records, with variously placed verses and choruses. [1] The Game wrote his final verse first and worked backward, to avoid tiredness affecting his later verses. [1] After 50 Cent heard the final version of the song after the recording process had finished, he was excited by its potential and felt the song would have to be one of the album's singles. [1] It was later released as the album's third, after "Westside Story" and "How We Do", both of which also featured 50 Cent.
The original production for "Hate It or Love It" first surfaced on a compilation CD, put together by Cool & Dre (who had been in contact with the Game since early 2002), [1] and released unofficially to the local rap community. [1] After G-Unit Records producer Sha Money XL received a copy of this disc, he requested a meeting with the duo, feeling that the song had much potential to be a hit. [1] After Dr. Dre heard the original production, he made sonic alterations and, according to Aftermath Entertainment A&R Mike Lynn, "made it sound like a record", a process he carried out on all of the other tracks on The Documentary. [1] When Interscope Records chairman Jimmy Iovine later requested to hear the original production, he admitted could not tell the difference. Cool & Dre later praised the quality of Dr. Dre's mix, stating that "Dre brought it to life... [As a mixer is what] I think is his best quality... his ear for instrument placement is amazing". [1]
Built around a sample of the song "Rubber Band" by the Trammps, "Hate It or Love It" is hip hop song that is backed by a soul-orientated production, which contains a "smoothed out R&B funk vibe". [2] [3]
"Hate It or Love It" received general acclaim from critics. Scott McKeating of Stylus Magazine wrote that "It's a great piece of warm soul-fuelled hip-hop, in which guest star 50 Cent manages to steal the show, considerably stepping up his lyrical content to squash together some great but clichéd lines against a level of his infamous smart arsed profundity." [2] IGN described the song as "a smoothed out R&B funk vibe underneath the tales of the hood." [3] Pitchfork listed the song as the 93rd best song of the 2000s. [4]
The song has earned the Game award nominations. In 2006 "Hate It or Love It" was nominated at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards for both Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, but lost in both categories to Kanye West's "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" and the Black Eyed Peas' "Don't Phunk with My Heart", respectively. "Hate It or Love It" was named number one on About.com's Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2005 and was ranked at number 43 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop".
The setting of the music video alternates between Compton, California and Jamaica, Queens, New York City. The video recalls the rough childhoods of 50 Cent and the Game, showing where they come from, what it was like living in their neighborhoods, and the struggles they overcame as kids to become rappers. Tequan Richmond portrays the Game and Zachary Williams plays 50 Cent in their youth. In one scene, the two are caught spraypainting "N.W.A" on a wall, resulting in their arrest by two policemen. Big Fase 100, members of Black Wall Street, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks make cameo appearances.
This video was nominated at the MTV Video Music Awards of 2005 for Best Rap Video, but lost to the video for Ludacris' song "Number One Spot".
The music video was directed by the Saline Project and has received over 355 million views on YouTube as of June 2024. [5]
There have been several remixes of the track:
Year | Ceremony | Award | Result |
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2005 | BET Awards | Best Collaboration [6] | Nominated |
MTV Video Music Awards | Best Rap Video [7] | Nominated | |
2006 | Grammy Awards | Best Rap Song [8] | Nominated |
Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group [8] | Nominated |
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [49] | 3× Platinum | 210,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [50] | Platinum | 90,000‡ |
Germany (BVMI) [51] | Platinum | 300,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI) [52] | Gold | 50,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [53] | 4× Platinum | 120,000‡ |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [54] | Gold | 30,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [55] | 2× Platinum | 1,200,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [56] | Gold | 500,000* |
Streaming | ||
Greece (IFPI Greece) [57] | Platinum | 2,000,000† |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref. |
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United States | March 14, 2005 | Urban contemporary radio | G-Unit, Aftermath, Interscope | [58] |
March 21, 2005 | Contemporary hit radio | [59] | ||
Germany | May 9, 2005 | Maxi CD | [19] | |
May 13, 2005 | CD | |||
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