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 The Game (born Jayceon Taylor) was arrested on November 16 on charges that he pretended to be a police officer after hailing a cab and flashing a fake badge to his driver. New York City prosecutors claim the rapper told the driver he was an undercover officer and encouraged him to run several red stoplights on Lexington Avenue before being pulled over.

According to The Game’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, who spoke to the New York Post, the charges are false and his client, who is constantly followed by hip hoppolice, is the real victim.

“The police are harassing him,” Lichtman said. ” They don’t even have a witness - no supporting deposition. It will be a slam-dunk acquittal or dismissal, it’s up to the D.A.”

“They offered us time served today and I didn’t even lift my head to respond. It’s an embarrassment for them,” he continued. ” The cops follow him from the moment he lands to the moment he leaves. A limo driver freaked out, that’s it. They are harassing him, but there will be some harassment going the other way at the trial.”

A representative for the New York Police Department responded to Litchman’s claims saying, “If he feels he’s being harassed, he should file a complaint with the Civilian Complaint Review Board.”

The Game, who admitted earlier this year that he was aware he was being followed, released a statement in November declaring his innocence and citing the incident as “a ploy by the hip-hop police to humiliate” him.

Source: SOHH

he Black Wall Street label owner The Game was arrested today (Oct. 28th) in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was shopping and greeting fans in the Four Seasons Town Center in a Halloween mask

Authorities were unaware of the reason for the commotion and approached Taylor and allegedly asked him to remove his mask.

Once authorities realized that he was a celebrity, they allegedly tried to diffuse the situation.

Officials said The Game grew hostile and stated “Ya’ll don’t know who I am,” and proceeded to make a scene.

Police stated that after several attempts to resolve the situation were unsuccessful, The Game and an associate was subsequently arrested and charged with two misdemeanors of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

The Game was released without bail and was slated to performed at Winston-Salem State University.

“They thought I was Rodney King,” Game told WFMY News 2. “I would play the racial card but we’ve done that too much. I’m here for the concert and signing a little girl’s autograph got me arrested.”

Footage taken by a fan captures several officers pushing and shoving the rapper, who’s not wearing a mask during the incident.

As Game is backing away, an officer pulls out a can of pepper spray and aims it in the rapper’s direction.

The Game is then handcuffed and led out of the mall.

“Whenever there’s a use in force, regardless of where it occurs or when it occurs, we always initiate an internal investigation and that’s exactly what will happen in this case,” a police representative said. “There was a use of force and we made an arrest for two individuals who are part of the rap group The Game. When we applied pepper spray to those folks, that automatically means we will initiate an investigation to determine whether that was justified. “

The Game said he would call his lawyers to seek legal recourse.

Props to Tiffany Hamilton & The Staff at All Hip Hop for this news.

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In preparation to begin working on the follow-up to his multi-platinum album The Documentary, rapper The Game recently constructed and opened a new recording studio complex in Atlantic City as headquarters for Black Wall Street East.

Black Wall Street’s main offices are headquartered in Los Angeles and the rapper is also making plans for other Black Wall Street facilities in other major markets across the country.

Game (born Jayceon Taylor) centered his recording studio in Atlantic City, New Jersey after collaborating with Black Wall Street in-house producer, Nu Jerzey Devil aka Anthony Torres.

“Rap is just a branch on my tree of life,” Game told AllHipHop.com. “I am funding these complexes with my own money. It’s very reminiscent in concept to what the original Black Wall Street was all about - doing for yourself.”

According to Ron Wallace, co-author of “Black Wall Street: A Lost Dream Chronicles,” the original “Black Wall Street” was in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The street was in one of the most affluent, segregated African-American neighborhoods in the United States and flourished from the early 1900’s until 1921.

According to “Black Wall Street,” the city was destroyed by race riots brought on by angry white Ku Klux Klan members, who allegedly destroyed the town on June 1, 1921.

Game’s Black Wall Street East, which is set in the heart of Atlantic City, is a fully customized state of the art recording studio, which is serving as the backdrop for the Game’s next album titled The Doctors Advocate.

Game, who as Jayceon Taylor was a member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, founded The Black Wall Street as an organization and corporation that is interested in the primary social development and economic advancement of the Hip-Hop community.

The Atlantic City location is still under construction and features a studio, two master suites, offices, rooms for in-house living, a recreational room with pool tables and a classroom, where mentoring programs for pregnant mothers and children will be established.

The rapper said he hopes to create almost 100 jobs when the facility is completed. Other facilities will eventually open in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Chicago.

While no release date was available for his album, the rapper confirmed he was “knee deep” into production on the follow-up to his blockbuster debut, The Documentary.

“It’s the same format at The Documentary. If it aint broke don’t fix it,” Game stated. “I am still with Dre and I’m working with some of the best producers.”

The rapper/CEO has already recorded and finished tracks with heavyweight producers like Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Just Blaze and Cool & Dre.

Game said The Doctors Advocate would not suffer without the appearance of 50 Cent and his former G-Unit group members, with whom a violent feud erupted just before 50 Cent released his chart-topping album, The Massacre.

“First off, he didn’t write s**t,” Game clarified. “If you listen to The Massacre and The Documentary, it’s obvious. He didn’t write anything. We would be in the studio bouncing ideas off of each other creatively, because it’s all about creative empowerment. I did that for his album too and didn’t ask for anything or take any credit. Now 50 is trying to sign all the street dudes and turn them against me.”

The rapper also announced that he is seeking new talent to sign to his Black Wall Street imprint.

The rapper also stated his sneaker with 310 Motoring, “Hurricanes by 310,” will hit stores on Dec. 26

The Doctors Advocate does not have a release date at press time.

**UPDATE** Game has signed Charli Baltimore (formerly of Murder Inc.) and Shyne (formerly of Bad Boy and GangLand) **UPDATE**

Props to EbenGregory & Nolan Strong