The Game faces arrest for threatening rival on radio
Volatile rapper “the Game” may soon have a new beef — with the NYPD.
Cops plan to arrest the hip hop star — whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor — over threatening comments he made on the radio about rival D.J. Star, sources told The Post on Monday.
Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, reported his rival’s threats to police, and Taylor faces arrest if he returns to New York.
The rapper told the 105.1 FM morning show “The Breakfast Club” on Sept. 21 that he wanted to assault Star over a feud with one of Game’s friends, D.J. Envy.
“I told him, ‘I’ll break your jaw, dude.’ Envy is my dog. I’m still gonna break his jaw when I see him,”Taylor said.
But Torain says that’s bunk — and that Game is just mad he didn’t let him on his show, SHOT97, on 105.1.
“I passed on letting Game come on my show, and that’s what Game’s tight about. The fact the hater, Star, rejected him….I just felt the Game was a f—-n hothead,” the controversial shock jock shared on his vlog.
The Game has also locked horns with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Eminem, and Ja Rule.
He currently lives in LA, and tells hosts he’ll be there for awhile, fielding lawsuits.
“I got a bunch of court cases, so I’ll be out there…handlin’ my business
The Game faces arrest for threatening rival on radio
That's some bull if Star reported him. But Envy did the same to him so....
D.J. Is Arrested Over His Threat to Rival's Child
By AL BAKER
Published: May 13, 2006
Detectives yesterday arrested a popular disc jockey with one of the city's leading hip-hop stations for making on-air threats to track down and sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of a rival.
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Troi Torain, known as D.J. Star, outside the First Precinct headquarters in TriBeCa on Friday.
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Troi Torain, known as D.J. Star, was arrested for threatening to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of a rival, police said.
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In a May 3 broadcast, Mr. Torain mentioned D.J Envy's wife and two children and threatened to find and sexually abuse his daughter.
"I'll come for your kids," Mr. Torain said that day, adding that he would pay $500 to anyone who told him where the girl attended school. Mr. Torain, who is black, also used racial and sexual epithets about D.J. Envy's wife, Gia Casey, 27, who is part Asian.
In an interview before his arrest yesterday, Mr. Torain sounded more contrite. "I apologized," he said. "I'm a rational man, 42 years of age. What rational man would say something with the intent to do harm to a child?"
Tough talk and crimes — from misdemeanors to murders — have long bisected the world of hip-hop: on Feb. 5, the filming of a music video for the rapper Busta Rhymes was interrupted by gunfire that killed a bodyguard in Brooklyn. At Hot 97, repeated instances of gunfire in front of the station's Greenwich Village premises were part of the violence that prompted the landlord there to seek an eviction. The Police Department recently installed surveillance cameras in front of the station because of the shootings there.
Mr. Torain, who worked at Hot 97 until he was lured away by Power 105, had a running on-air feud with D.J. Envy, whose real name is Raashaun Casey.
While calling Mr. Torain's on-air remarks in that feud "vile and despicable," and saying he deserved to lose his job, Ronald Kuby, a civil rights attorney, said "they did not cross the line into criminal conduct."
"There are profound First Amendment issues as to whether he uttered an actionable threat," said Mr. Kuby. He said he did not see issues of race at play but issues of radio and broadcasting.
He added: "These kinds of things are said on the street, between people or in arguments with others. But once it is broadcast it attracts attention and significance that a private argument doesn't."
Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Torain, agreed that he did not believe there was a racial element to the charge against his client, but he declined to comment on whether Mr. Torain was being prosecuted for saying something similar to what other D.J.'s have said.
Mr. Brafman said a competition for listeners was at the root of it.
"There are obviously First Amendment issues that are raised whenever someone is being charged with a crime simply because what he or she may have said," he said. "My hope is that we do not have to litigate those issues and that at the end of the day it will simply be apparent to all concerned that no crime was committed and however offensive the behavior was, it did not cause any harm and was prompted by equally offensive behavior by the other side," Mr. Brafman said.
He added: "I do think that both radio stations bear some responsibility for allowing this to spiral out of control."
Mr. Brafman repeatedly stressed that his client has apologized. And the owners of Power 105 issued an apology of their own, to anyone offended by their former employee's tirade.
Last evening, as Mr. Torain walked out of the precinct house on Ericsson Place, he paused, leaned back and grinned for television cameras, saying, "You're looking at the new Lenny Bruce."
In the interview before he went to police headquarters, Mr. Torain mused about a new philosophy of his, which he called "objective hate."
He also said that "life is beautiful" and that he was shopping for a book deal.
City Council members, meanwhile, expressed satisfaction with the arrest.
Councilman John C. Liu of Queens, who has led the Council's protests against Mr.Torain, said the arrest sent a real message that D.J.'s who misbehave "are not immune from the law."
Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., an ex-prosecutor who has two young daughters, said, "We needed this arrest to send a clear signal that society won't put up with this despicable type of behavior."
He said many members of the Council were "more than disgusted" by Mr. Torain's on-air remarks.
On Thursday, Mr. Vallone, the head of the Public Safety Committee, sent a letter with a transcript of the remarks to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.
As the police and prosecutors initiated an investigation, investigators learned that Mr. Torain had a target permit for the gun and decided to call him to revoke it, the police said.
Volatile rapper “the Game” may soon have a new beef — with the NYPD.
Cops plan to arrest the hip hop star — whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor — over threatening comments he made on the radio about rival D.J. Star, sources told The Post on Monday.
Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, reported his rival’s threats to police, and Taylor faces arrest if he returns to New York.
The rapper told the 105.1 FM morning show “The Breakfast Club” on Sept. 21 that he wanted to assault Star over a feud with one of Game’s friends, D.J. Envy.
“I told him, ‘I’ll break your jaw, dude.’ Envy is my dog. I’m still gonna break his jaw when I see him,”Taylor said.
But Torain says that’s bunk — and that Game is just mad he didn’t let him on his show, SHOT97, on 105.1.
“I passed on letting Game come on my show, and that’s what Game’s tight about. The fact the hater, Star, rejected him….I just felt the Game was a f—-n hothead,” the controversial shock jock shared on his vlog.
The Game has also locked horns with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Eminem, and Ja Rule.
He currently lives in LA, and tells hosts he’ll be there for awhile, fielding lawsuits.
“I got a bunch of court cases, so I’ll be out there…handlin’ my business
The Game faces arrest for threatening rival on radio
That's some bull if Star reported him. But Envy did the same to him so....
D.J. Is Arrested Over His Threat to Rival's Child
By AL BAKER
Published: May 13, 2006
Detectives yesterday arrested a popular disc jockey with one of the city's leading hip-hop stations for making on-air threats to track down and sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of a rival.
Skip to next paragraph
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Troi Torain, known as D.J. Star, outside the First Precinct headquarters in TriBeCa on Friday.
Related
D.J. Says He's No Shock Jock
Enlarge this Image
Angel Franco/The New York Times
Troi Torain, known as D.J. Star, was arrested for threatening to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of a rival, police said.
Federal Communications Commission.
In a May 3 broadcast, Mr. Torain mentioned D.J Envy's wife and two children and threatened to find and sexually abuse his daughter.
"I'll come for your kids," Mr. Torain said that day, adding that he would pay $500 to anyone who told him where the girl attended school. Mr. Torain, who is black, also used racial and sexual epithets about D.J. Envy's wife, Gia Casey, 27, who is part Asian.
In an interview before his arrest yesterday, Mr. Torain sounded more contrite. "I apologized," he said. "I'm a rational man, 42 years of age. What rational man would say something with the intent to do harm to a child?"
Tough talk and crimes — from misdemeanors to murders — have long bisected the world of hip-hop: on Feb. 5, the filming of a music video for the rapper Busta Rhymes was interrupted by gunfire that killed a bodyguard in Brooklyn. At Hot 97, repeated instances of gunfire in front of the station's Greenwich Village premises were part of the violence that prompted the landlord there to seek an eviction. The Police Department recently installed surveillance cameras in front of the station because of the shootings there.
Mr. Torain, who worked at Hot 97 until he was lured away by Power 105, had a running on-air feud with D.J. Envy, whose real name is Raashaun Casey.
While calling Mr. Torain's on-air remarks in that feud "vile and despicable," and saying he deserved to lose his job, Ronald Kuby, a civil rights attorney, said "they did not cross the line into criminal conduct."
"There are profound First Amendment issues as to whether he uttered an actionable threat," said Mr. Kuby. He said he did not see issues of race at play but issues of radio and broadcasting.
He added: "These kinds of things are said on the street, between people or in arguments with others. But once it is broadcast it attracts attention and significance that a private argument doesn't."
Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Torain, agreed that he did not believe there was a racial element to the charge against his client, but he declined to comment on whether Mr. Torain was being prosecuted for saying something similar to what other D.J.'s have said.
Mr. Brafman said a competition for listeners was at the root of it.
"There are obviously First Amendment issues that are raised whenever someone is being charged with a crime simply because what he or she may have said," he said. "My hope is that we do not have to litigate those issues and that at the end of the day it will simply be apparent to all concerned that no crime was committed and however offensive the behavior was, it did not cause any harm and was prompted by equally offensive behavior by the other side," Mr. Brafman said.
He added: "I do think that both radio stations bear some responsibility for allowing this to spiral out of control."
Mr. Brafman repeatedly stressed that his client has apologized. And the owners of Power 105 issued an apology of their own, to anyone offended by their former employee's tirade.
Last evening, as Mr. Torain walked out of the precinct house on Ericsson Place, he paused, leaned back and grinned for television cameras, saying, "You're looking at the new Lenny Bruce."
In the interview before he went to police headquarters, Mr. Torain mused about a new philosophy of his, which he called "objective hate."
He also said that "life is beautiful" and that he was shopping for a book deal.
City Council members, meanwhile, expressed satisfaction with the arrest.
Councilman John C. Liu of Queens, who has led the Council's protests against Mr.Torain, said the arrest sent a real message that D.J.'s who misbehave "are not immune from the law."
Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., an ex-prosecutor who has two young daughters, said, "We needed this arrest to send a clear signal that society won't put up with this despicable type of behavior."
He said many members of the Council were "more than disgusted" by Mr. Torain's on-air remarks.
On Thursday, Mr. Vallone, the head of the Public Safety Committee, sent a letter with a transcript of the remarks to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.
As the police and prosecutors initiated an investigation, investigators learned that Mr. Torain had a target permit for the gun and decided to call him to revoke it, the police said.
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If a nikka talking tough like that, you supposed to tell him to be at the designated place, at the designated time, and designate his ass for dismemberment 
:jaylmao:
yall believe this ? star aint no hoe