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Compton rapper Game is going to have to come up off some of that The R.E.D. Album money, and some of the LAX bread, too. On Tuesday, a court ruling was upheld which forces the “Hate It Or Love It” rapper to cough up $5 million in compensatory damages to five Greensboro, North Carolina police officers, which stems from a defamation lawsuit the officers filed against the rapper in 2006.

As first reported by MyFox8, the suit surrounds a DVD that Game, born Jayceon Taylor, produced entitled, Stop Snitchin’ Stop Lyin. The officers who brought about the deposition claim their images were wrongfully used in the documentary, and as a result, they were libeled and slandered. Bungalo Records Inc. is also named in the suit.

The officers were taped by a member of Game’s entourage as they arrested the rapper at Four Seasons Mall for criminal trespassing in October 2005. Later, a “heavily edited’ version of the arrest was used in a bonus feature on the DVD, making it look, “as though Taylor was wrongfully arrested,” notes the court ruling. The DVD also promoted the footage as the full arrest, according to the court.

A new trial has been set to determine whether the officers will receive another $10 million in punitive damages.