Did The Five-Oh Attempt To Frame 50 Cent?

It’s gotta suck to be the guy who made one of the year’s only rap albums worth listening to from beginning to end and to also be going away for a weapons charge. No, I don’t mean T.I. I’m talking about Prodigy from Mobb Deep, whose stark, retro-leaning Return Of The Mac is (yeah, I’m gonna say it) the year’s only truly essential hip-hop long-player, proving that sometimes even a (tangentially) G-Unit affilliated rapper can turn out a winner. But now Prodigy tells XXL that he could have avoided jail time by fingering his pal 50.

P went on to urge listeners to invest in cameras and other surveillance equipment for their vehicles in order to protect themselves from what he sees as a recent increase in racial profiling. He even went so far as to claim that New York cops offered him a chance to setup 50 Cent in exchange for exoneration on his own charges. “They were actually trying to get me to plant evidence in his car,” he explained. “They wanted me to put drugs or guns in his car.”

‘Course there’s nothing to back up Prodigy’s claim, but those hip-hop coppers have a shady enough history that any wild accusation seems within the realm of possibility. If they existed. Which of course they don’t. Right? You can also listen to the full interview with P here.

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