It's Not a Game

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{{Infobox album

| name = It's Not a Game

| type = Studio Album

| artist = Layzie Bone

| cover = Layzie Bone - It's Not a Game.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 31, 2005

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| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Midwest rap

| length = 79:56

| label = Cleopatra

| producer = The Platinum Brothers, Darren Vegas, Cashion Howse, Denzo, Self, Dave Stewart, Mauly T., Stew Deez & Thin C.

| prev_title = Thug by Nature

| prev_year = 2001

| next_title = Thug Brothers

| next_year = 2006

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = RapReviews

|rev1score = {{Rating|8|10}}{{cite web|last1=Juon|first1=Steve 'Flash'|title=Layzie Bone's "It's Not a Game"|url=https://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2005_06F_itsnotagame.html|website=RapReviews|date=June 7, 2005|access-date=May 4, 2024}}

|rev2 = Vibe

|rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Wong|first=Kevin|date=July 2005|title=Revolutions: Layzie Bone – It's Not a Game|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SYEAAAAMBAJ&dq=revolutions&pg=PA137|magazine=Vibe|page=142|access-date=2023-03-17|archive-date=2020-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603013530/https://books.google.com/books?id=-SYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA137&dq=Revolutions|url-status=dead}}

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It's Not a Game is the second album released by Layzie Bone in 2005. The album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart,[http://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-06-18/rap-albums It's Not a Game (Top Rap Albums chart)], Billboard, June 18, 2005. number 31 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart,[http://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-07-02/r-b-hip-hop-albums It's Not a Game (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart)], Billboard, July 2, 2002. and number 96 on the Billboard 200.[http://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-06-25/billboard-200 It's Not a Game (Billboard 200 chart)], Billboard, June 225, 2005.

Tracks two and nine had previously appeared on his 2001 release Thug by Nature.