Gangsta rap artist "The Game" arrested in alleged criminal threat

Los Angeles police arrested the rap artist known as The Game at his
Glendale home Friday on suspicion of making criminal threats during a
pickup basketball game in February at a park in South Los Angeles. The
artist, born Jayceon Terrell Taylor, 27, is suspected of pulling
"out a gun and us[ing] it to threaten another person on the court," an
LAPD source said Saturday.
Taylor posted $50,000 bail about 2 a.m. Saturday and was released from
the LAPD's 77th Street Division jail.









Officer Monica Garcia said investigators searched Taylor's nearly 5,000-square-foot home in northwest Glendale for three hours.

Taylor's debut album, "The Documentary," produced by rap legend Dr.
Dre, sold in excess of 2.4 million copies — a multi- platinum
seller — and made him a superstar in 2005.





In 2001, while dealing drugs, he was shot multiple times when a group
of "clowns" broke into his house, Taylor told The Times in a November
2006 interview.



"They thought they had killed me," Taylor said. "I crawled to the
bathroom and looked in the mirror. My wife-beater [shirt] was all red.
I pulled it back and blood squirted on the glass."



The Game also distributed a controversial DVD, "Stop Snitchin, Stop
Lyin," portraying him and his associates traveling to a house in
Connecticut they said belonged to 50 Cent. On the DVD, they lurked in
the underbrush, then slipped onto the backyard basketball court. While
attempting a slam-dunk, Taylor snapped the basketball hoop's

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