The Game was busy over the holiday season, but it wasn't all about promoting his new album, Doctor's Advocate, or playing gigs on his recently completed European tour.

The rapper, who's a proud native of Compton, Calif., gave back to his community and others around the world a few days before Christmas by taking part in a creative, charitable cause.

The Game accomplished this by pairing with Christian Audigier, who founded the Ed Hardy clothing line, to design original, limited-edition The Game/Ed Hardy T-shirts. Proceeds will benefit several charities, including Yele Haiti (http://www.yele.org.), Hands For Hope and the Compton/Wateridge Department of Child and Family Services where shirts were donated to Compton area foster children.

The Game said if he was a kid in Compton and a T-shirt of this kind had come out featuring his favorite rappers, he would have worn it every day of the school week and every day after that.

"When you come from Compton or any of these neighborhoods across the globe and you don't have these things or can't afford these things, when you get them, it's almost like it's a gift from God," The Game said.

Four T-shirts on sale at TheGame360.com will benefit Yele Haiti, courtesy of The Game, his manager, Jimmy Rosemond, and Czar Entertainment. The shirts -- a men's Eagle Rose design, a men's Heartbreaker design with and without The Game's logo, and the women's Heartbreaker design -- cost $275 each and are not available anyplace else.

Yéle Haiti is a foundation started by Grammy-Award winning musician, producer and social entrepreneur Wyclef Jean that uses music, sports and the media to reinforce projects that are making a difference in education, health, environment and community development in Haiti, one of the world's poorest nations.