According to Crystal Bustillos, the best thing about the hip-hop icon known as The Game is his ability to "keep it real."

"He's proud of who he is and where he's from," said the 23-year-old customer service representative from Albuquerque, N.M. "He's very up front and doesn't care what anybody thinks of him. I try to be that way, too."

It was hard for Bustillos not to let her emotions show recently, though, because she got a phone call from TheGame360.com informing her that she was one of six winners of sweepstakes offering an exclusive autographed T-shirt from The Game himself.

Bustillos said she'd like to provide a colorful story entailing a dramatic reaction to the news, but maybe it was a little bit too much of a shock to the system.

"I don't remember exactly how I found out," she said. "I think I blacked out. I do remember that there was a lot of screaming involved from my end of the line."

Bustillos said she's been a huge fan of The Game "from the very beginning," which made it extra-special to receive such a rare and intimate gift from the rapper.

"I buy all his stuff," she said. "I have both albums and all his underground stuff. As soon as I find out about it, I get it."

She also has a ticket stub from the only live Game performance she's witnessed -- a few years ago at the Journal Pavilion in Albuquerque -- and now the piece de resistance, the T-shirt with The Game's name in silver marker for all the world to see.

"I'll probably show it off to the max and then I'll probably have it framed," she said.

"I won't let anybody touch it."