Rapper "The Game" Pleads Innocent To Brandishing Gun

US west coast gangsta rapper "The Game" pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Los Angeles court to felony charges that he threatened a man with a gun at a pickup basketball game.

"The Game," aka Jayceon Terrell Taylor, 27, is charged with three counts in the February incident in which he allegedly hit a player on the opposing team, then went to his Cadillac and got a gun and threatened to shoot the man.

One of the charges relates to possessing the gun in a school zone, and another to exhibiting the gun in the presence of a police officer.

He could get five years in prison if convicted on all the charges.

Taylor, nominated for two Grammys for his hit 2005 CD "The Documentary," is a star of gangsta rap, which glorifies gang culture and violence.

He is free on 50,000 dollars bail and scheduled to appear in court on June 27.