The cover played on the series’ familiar artwork. Eager to parlay the success of the game into a music career, Maylay packaged his first release as San Andreas: The Original Mixtape in 2005. For years, he’d been sitting on a clutch of tracks, mostly classic west coast rap songs on top of middle-era Dr. Back home in L.A., a plan formed in Maylay’s mind. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas became the best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time.
