The Game is responding to fans who clowned him for being absent from Kendrick Lamar‘s Pop Out Concert earlier this week.

The Game Responds to Absence From Kendrick Lamar Pop Out Show

On Thursday (June 20), Game hopped on Instagram Story to address the fans clowning him for his absence from Kendrick’s Pop Out – Ken & Friends Concert.

“Been seeing sh*t swirl around the internet, and sometimes, man, y’all got to hear it from the horse’s mouth, man,” Game said in the response below. “Muthaf**kas in my DMs, and all on these blog sites and whatnot, talking about, ‘The West Coast ain’t f**king with you, and you ain’t this and you ain’t that, and you’re siding with this ni**a and that ni**a.’ When the f**k y’all heard me say a muthaf**king thing about who I’m siding with or this and that? I’ll be in my own lane chilling, taking care of my kids out the f**king way. That’s how I made it this far in this game, man.”

He insisted he didn’t have to be there, but praised Kendrick. “Now, as far as the Kendrick and Drake shit concerned, that’s Kendrick and Drake sh*t, ni**a,” he said. “Kendrick do his sh*t and what he did last night that sh*t was amazing for the West Coast. I sat back and I watched it. I ain’t have to be there, you know what I’m saying?…I think it’s a W for the coast. I think that what K-Dot did for a lot of West Coast ni**as last night was hard as f**k. I think it was hard. I think it was big dope of him and big-hearted of him to do that sh*t for ni**as. But that ni**a learnt that sh*t on the way up.”