Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy was scheduled to go to jail yesterday (Jan.8th on gun charges but caught a break in Manhattan Supreme Court allowing him five more weeks of freedom.
Prodigy (born Albert Johnson) was due to begin a 3-1/2-year bid in state prison, convicted after being caught with a loaded, unregistered .22-caliber gun in his $150,000 bulletproof SUV in 2006.
But because the 33-year-old rapper is plagued with sickle cell disease - a life-long, genetic, incurable blood disorder that can lead to organ damage and stroke among other problems -- Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin decided to give Prodigy's doctors 30 days to assemble his medical records. The rapper may be assigned to a prison with easy access to medical treatment, according to New York's Daily News.
Prodigy's lawyer, Irving Cohen, said his client has been in and out of hospitals his entire life.
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