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The Game admits it's gonna make him "look bipolar" -- but he has mixed emotions about his second Meek Mill diss track because it came on the heels of the Tulsa cop shooting of Terence Crutcher.

Game was in NYC when he told us it's not a good look to be squaring off with another African-American artist in light of Crutcher's death ... still, he ain't backing down.

Watch the clip, it's kinda bizarre -- one moment he's encouraging peaceful protests on the issue of police brutality ... the next he's talking up the diss track, "Pest Control" ... which features all new violent threats against Meek.