 After Shyne stood by his comments, The Game responded with a freestyle calling out Shyne, entitled "Cough Up a Lung".Shyne would later respond with his own diss track in retaliation, titled "Psalms 68 (Guns & Moses)".In 2014, it was reported that "Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" was being studied as a text in the freshman composition class of Georgia Regents University professor Adam Diehl, alongside other coming of age works such as the James Joyce novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", Gwendolyn Brooks' "Selected Poems", James Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man", and the John Singleton film "Boyz n the Hood".