The Game Gets 60 Days In Jail For The Usual Gun-Waggling Stuff
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February 12th, 2008 at 14:45 by Stuart Heritage
It's a common situation - you're playing a backyard game of sport and all of a sudden you're overwhelmed with the urge to punch and pull a gun on your competitor while threatening to kill him.
Can't we all say that's happened to us at one point or another? We know we can - and those toddlers won't be asking for their marbles back in a hurry - and now so can The Game.
Rapper The Game has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for waving a gun around during a basketball match in a schoolyard. Good thing too - if The Game got away with it, this gun-based kill-threatening could have snuck into professional sports, and God knows Alan Smith is dangerous enough as it is without a six-shooter strapped to his thigh.
The Game is probably best known for having the most spectacularly ill-thought-out name in music. Google The Game and you're taken to pages about a David Fincher film, a chain of videogame stores, an American sitcom, a wrestler, a Jurassic 5 song and a book about how to trick girls into sleeping with you. That's something you don't get with, say, Lethal Bizzle.
So, knowing that he's up against all of those things, The Game has decided to get himself in the news as many times as possible. Mainly by acting like a dickwad, granted, but you can't fault him for trying. In the past The Game has been arrested for swearing in a shopping centre, for pretending to be a policeman and for giving another policeman self-esteem issues but, as you can tell, none of those things involved punching a man during a friendly sporting event and then threatening to kill him with a gun.
Fortunately, The Game realised this a year ago and did that very thing. He was then charged in June and faced a five-year jail sentence for it. However, thanks to that most gangsta of legal get-out clauses - the plea-bargain - The Game has only ended up being sentenced to 60 days in jail. E! Online reports:
The hit-making rappper has been sentenced to two months in an L.A. lockup after pleading no contest Monday to whipping out a gun during a schoolyard pickup basketball game. The 28-year-old "How We Do" hip-hopster, referred to in court by his given name, Jacyeon Terrell Taylor, worked out a deal with prosecutors to avoid up to five years in the can. In exchange for his no-contest plea on a felony count of possession of a firearm in a school zone, the district attorney's office dropped two other felony charges—making criminal threats and exhibiting a firearm in the presence of a peace officer.
As well as 60 days locked up, The Game will also have to complete 150 hours of community service, and he'll be on probation for three years - which seems like an awful long time to last for someone who once got arrested for making a policeman feel bad.
So The Game is in jail and Foxy Brown is in jail. It seems that if this trend continues for much longer then all rappers will need to behave themselves because of their various probation orders. This will usher in a new era of gentlemanly, well-mannered hip-hop - and we've already preempted it, as our stocks of baggy tuxedos and oversized top-hats will attest.
And if Westwwod doesn't put our new banger Oh Marjory (What A Delightful Blouse) on heavy rotation by Easter, we'll be very surprised.
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