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"Hate It or Love It"
Single by The Game featuring 50 Cent from the album The Documentary
B-side	Higher (AOL session) Hate It or Love It (instrumental)
Released	July 12, 2005
Format	12" single, CD
Recorded	2004
Genre	Hip hop
Length	3:26
Label	G-Unit, Aftermath
Writer	Jayceon Taylor, Curtis Jackson, Andre Lyon, Michael Valenzano
Producer	Cool and Dre

This article is about The Game & 50 Cent single. For the Chingy album, click here.

"Hate It or Love It" is the second official (third overall) single off of rapper The Game's debut album entitled The Documentary. The song was blocked from the #1 position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart by The Game's fellow G-Unit member at the time, 50 Cent (who is also featured in this song), with his song "Candy Shop" (featuring Olivia), but it did reach the #1 spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The song was produced by Cool and Dre, and their production on this song is often considered masterful.^[1].

The track uses a sample from the song "Rubber Band" performed by The Trammps on their album, "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" .

"Hate It or Love It" was nominated at the Grammy Awards of 2006 for both Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, but lost both awards to Kanye West's "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" and the Black Eyed Peas' "Don't Phunk With My Heart", respectively.

In the first verse, 50 Cent says, "My favourite rapper use to sing ch-check out my melody", which "My Melody" was a song by rap duo Eric B. & Rakim from their debut album Paid in Full. The Game also mentions 2Pac and his song Brenda's Got a Baby in verse 3, saying: "Pac is gone, and Brenda still throwin babies in the garbage". He also mentions Lloyd Banks and Sha Money XL.

The music video's setting alternates between New York City and Los Angeles. The video showcases the rough childhoods of 50 Cent and The Game. It shows where they come from, what it was like living in their neighborhoods, and the struggles they overcame as kids to become rappers. Two kids portray them in their youth, and in one scene these two children are caught spraying "N.W.A." on a wall, causing their subsequent arrest by two policemen.

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".

There have been a several remixes done of the track:

• One appears on 50 Cent's album The Massacre as a remix featuring other G-Unit members: Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Tony Yayo. The first time the chorus is performed in this version, it is identical to the original, but the consecutive choruses have 50 Cent's line followed by another member of G-Unit rapping The Game's original line. While 50 Cent's opening verse and bridge are included in this version, The Game's second verse is omitted and replaced with new lyrics.

• Mary J. Blige covers the song on her own single MJB Da MVP from her multi-platinum album The Breakthrough, with 50 Cent rapping only his chorus line and Blige continuing with an altered version of The Game's original line. Additional verses by both The Game and Mary J. Blige are also included.

• There is also a remix on The Game's latest mixtape, You Know What It Is Vol. 3, remastered into a diss towards G-Unit called "Hate It or Love It (Street RMX)". Here, The Game's second verse from the G-Unit remix is modified with new lyrics in order to insult the G-Unit members.

• The Re-Up Gang featured a remix of the track on their mixtape, We Got It 4 Cheap: Vol. 2. The song features the four members of the group rapping about their troubles in the past.

• Also upcoming rappers from Berlin R-K-X & J' Maine made a remix in German named "Hass Mich, Lieb Mich", which shows the international popularity of this song.

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