Played under investigation for Twitter prank at the LA police

Game changer ... Rapper denies playing Twitter prank at the LA police

The game is under investigation by the Los Angeles police for allegedly encouraging his followers to overburden them with phone calls. Police telephone lines were overwhelmed by a Tweet from the rapper's account invited his 580,000 twitter followers to call an emergency services hotline, claimed it was a number to apply for a hip-hop "internship".

In the first instance tweets seemed harmless enough: "Lookin 4 a intern," he wrote on Friday. "Men/women. Just pick some 1 random ... If u in LA and over age 18 witta car [Contact] me. "But the rapper reportedly tweeted a telephone number — since deleted – belongs to the Compton Sheriff's office, jamming lines with hundreds of studies.

"This was beyond irresponsible," Sheriff's captain Mike Parks told the LA Times . During the flooding of internship questions were the police could not receive many legitimate emergency requests. "Deputies ' ability to answer phones and send staff to help these people at risk was significantly reduced," said Parker. It took almost two hours to trace the cause of the deluge and contact game, asks him to call off its future trainees.

Reported the incident, the game released a coy response after the LA Times. "It was not me (voice of shaggy)," , he wrote, refers to the pop 2000 hit . He claimed it was an "accident" and joked about to get "hacked" also [. "p.s.", he leaves, "who killed Biggie and Pac???"

But the game may not laugh away the LAPD. It has officially opened a criminal investigation, with plans to pass a public safety complaint to the Los Angeles county district attorney's Office. "Every telephone call, made [open] the option for an additional fee," Parker said.

The game is preparing to release his fourth album, The R.E.D Album, on 23 August. He has previously scored two top 10 albums in the United Kingdom, including 2005 's The documentary film, which sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. In 2008, he served 60 days in jail for pulling a gun during a basketball game.

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