The album was set out by the Game to prove that he was still able to make good music and be a successful artist as he did on The Documentary without the help of Dr. The Game's third album, LAX, went head to head with heavy metal and nu metal band Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone on the Billboard 200, as both albums were released on August 26, 2008.

LAX ended up debuting at Number two on the Billboard 200, at first it looked like LAX had debuted ahead of All Hope Is Gone by 13 copies, with such a close difference. Initially, Billboard published an article stating that the Game had secured the top spot with a margin of 13 units, in what was described as the 'closest race for number one since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking Data in 1991'. Slipknot's labels Warner Music Group and Roadrunner Records asked for a soundscan recount, a historic first. Nielsen proceeded to the recount, which placed LAX at number two with 238,382 copies, and Slipknot in first position with 239,516 copies scanned, a margin of 1,134 copies. After the recount 12 hours later, the article was rewritten and Slipknot was awarded the number one spot, having sold 239,516 units. LAX produced four singles ' Game's Pain' with R&B singer Keyshia Cole, ' Dope Boys' with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, ' My Life' with rapper Lil Wayne and ' Camera Phone' with R&B singer Ne-Yo.

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