The Game Shoots Down Death Rumor With Killer Tweets

Bogus death report—yes, yet another Internet hoax—gives rapper material for cool comebacks

At least one good thing has come from today's bogus celebrity-death report: The Game's tweets.

"As a matter of fact, I am dead," went one entry from the Grammy-winning rapper this morning. "I'm the 1st n-gga to #graveTweet!!!"

No, not bad for a man supposedly gunned down at a Los Angeles mall. But wait—the Game's only getting started.

"I tell you on thing though, you can't really get good reception here in this coffin.... Damn T-Mobile !!!," he complained.

The 30-year-old star is in Sacramento, where he's set to play a club tonight. Wrote the Game about the gig: "Im bringn all da zombies from thriller & I dug up Rick James b!tch ! Being dead is da best."

As you may have noticed, the rapper is taking "news" of his demise with exceedingly good humor. 

"Who ever started da rumor dat I was dead is funny as hell," he wrote. "If u gone spread rumors, b more creative. Say, I had a fight wit the Toy Story cast or sumn & it turned fatal ha ha.."

Ah, but there was no whimsy in the fake news that sprung perhaps from a make-your-own-press-release site. The bogus report had the Game going out in clichéd rapper fashion: Fatally shot in the head Sunday night at L.A.'s Beverly Center. (If the location sounds morbidly familiar, that's because up-and-coming rapper Dolla was taken out by gunfire there, for real, last year.)

No matter to The Game. He's alive and tweeting and dropping a new album, The R.E.D. Album, on Aug. 24. 

Oh, and in case you were worried, and/or wondering what the Game has in common with a certain 1970s pop-culture figure: C.W. McCall, the singer-songwriter who scored with the CB-radio-inspired "Convoy," isn't dead, either.