The Game involved in shooting incident in Compton
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As Jayceon Taylor (a.k.a "The Game") was leaving his home in Compton, California, gunmen opened fire on him and about thirty members of his crew who were gathered outside.
The Game, 25, and his crew, Black Wall Street, were on their way to a party at the Hollywood nightclub Forbidden City to celebrate the release of his debut album, The Documentary; the record came out six days earlier and sold nearly 600,000 copies in its first week, opening at Number One on the Billboard charts.
According to several witnesses, as an SUV drove by the house, a passenger sprayed the group with automatic gunfire. No one was injured, but "gunfire was returned," according to Roderick Johnson, a.k.a. Phat Rat, who handles BWS business. Johnson says that two other cars drove by minutes later and shot at the house, shattering windows on the Game's black Range Rover, which was parked in the driveway.
The Game owns several houses on the dead-end block of the Compton neighborhood where the shootings happened; he uses the property both as living space and business headquarters.
No suspects have been identified.
The Game has been a member of the South Central Cedar Block Piru Bloods, since high school. In 2001, he was shot in the home where he sold drugs; when he awoke from a two-day coma in a Los Angeles hospital, he dedicated himself to rap.
Dr. Dre signed The Game to Aftermath in 2003, hooked him up with G-Unit and produced The Documentary.
Three days before the shootout, on January 21st, the Game was involved in another violent incident when he and his manager, Jimmy "The Henchman" Rosemond, were guests on metro-Washington, DC radio station, WKYS. Reportedly, the DJ, Zxulu "The Big-Lip Bandit," made on-air comments dissing Rosemond's cell-phone headset. Minutes after the show, according to a report filed with Prince George's County police, two men were beaten in the lobby of the radio station; one, sources say, was Zxulu.
BWS members speculate that the Compton shooters may have been local kids trying to build street cred. "It's not gang-related," says G-Ride, another BWS member. "It's just stupidity-related. Everyone blows a shooting out of proportion. It's everyday life here. You hear shots, and you just cover your head."