Your servant searching the Internet for Hip Hop and Rap articles The rap artist known as The Game pleaded no contest today to a felony firearm charge for pointing a gun at another player during a pickup basketball game last year in South Los Angeles.
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Deputy Dist. Atty. Tien Pham of Central Trials said the artist, born Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court to 60 days in county jail, three years formal probation and 150 hours of community service.
Taylor, who is scheduled to surrender to authorities in the next week, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in a school zone. Two other counts, of making criminal threats and of exhibiting a firearm in the presence of a peace officer, were dismissed as part of a plea agreement, officials said. He could have faced more than five years in state prison if convicted on all counts.
Taylor allegedly got into an argument last Feb. 24 with a player on an opposing team during a basketball game at the Rita Walters Educational Learning Complex in South Los Angeles.
After punching the opposing player, Taylor pulled a gun from his red Cadillac Escalade and threatened to shoot the man, prosecutors charged.
A one-time star basketball shooting guard at Compton High School, Taylor boasts in songs and videos of his past connection to the Cedar Block Piru Bloods gang.
In 2001, while dealing drugs, he was shot several times when a group of "clowns" broke into his house, Taylor told The Times in a November 2006 interview.
The hip-hop star was arrested May 11 at his Glendale home by police executing a search warrant. Following the arrest, a video appeared on the entertainment website TMZ.com that appeared to show the rapper with a wad of money inside his jail cell. Disciplinary proceedings were started against an LAPD officer after internal affairs investigators determined he had videotaped Taylor in the jail.
The rap artist known as The Game pleaded no contest today to a felony firearm charge for pointing a gun at another player during a pickup basketball game last year in South Los Angeles.
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Deputy Dist. Atty. Tien Pham of Central Trials said the artist, born Jayceon Terrell Taylor, was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court to 60 days in county jail, three years formal probation and 150 hours of community service.
Taylor, who is scheduled to surrender to authorities in the next week, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in a school zone. Two other counts, of making criminal threats and of exhibiting a firearm in the presence of a peace officer, were dismissed as part of a plea agreement, officials said. He could have faced more than five years in state prison if convicted on all counts.
Taylor allegedly got into an argument last Feb. 24 with a player on an opposing team during a basketball game at the Rita Walters Educational Learning Complex in South Los Angeles.
After punching the opposing player, Taylor pulled a gun from his red Cadillac Escalade and threatened to shoot the man, prosecutors charged.
A one-time star basketball shooting guard at Compton High School, Taylor boasts in songs and videos of his past connection to the Cedar Block Piru Bloods gang.
In 2001, while dealing drugs, he was shot several times when a group of "clowns" broke into his house, Taylor told The Times in a November 2006 interview.
The hip-hop star was arrested May 11 at his Glendale home by police executing a search warrant. Following the arrest, a video appeared on the entertainment website TMZ.com that appeared to show the rapper with a wad of money inside his jail cell. Disciplinary proceedings were started against an LAPD officer after internal affairs investigators determined he had videotaped Taylor in the jail.