*A North Carolina judge has granted rapper The Game permission to appeal the $5 million he was recently ordered to pay to a group of police officers in an ongoing defamation lawsuit.
The cops were filmed arresting the star at a shopping mall in North Carolina in 2005 and the footage subsequently ended up on The Game’s Stop Snitching/Stop Lying DVD. The officers filed suit over the release, claiming defamation of character and insisting their likeness was used without their permission.
A 2010 court ruling stated the Greensboro cops should receive $5 million in compensatory damages, and that order was upheld by a North Carolina appeals court last month.
But The Game, born Jayceon Taylor, is still disputing the judgment – and last week he was given permission to challenge the compensation amount, according to AllHipHop.com.
The case will be heard in a jury trial, which will also determine whether the officers’ additional $10 million claim for punitive damages is justified.
Like he has or is worth $5,000 let alone $5 Million…this guy comes across as a super hard core gangster gang banger and when they did an episode of Pun’kd, he was acting like a scary little Beootch…he started throwing furniture around, kicking shit…I was like, he’s soft as pudding…LOL
Wait, you don’t think The Game has 5 racks? He probably gets that just to show up at show.