No specific medical reason has been given at this time but Prodigy has revealed in a previous interview with Hiphopdx that he has been battling with sickle cell anemia for a while and that he’ll be "[...] getting special treatment, because if they put me in a facility that can’t treat sickle cell, then I can sue the state. So they gotta make sure they put me in a facility that can handle that".

Prodigy pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a loaded gun earlier this year after he was arrested alongside producer The Alchemist in October of 2006 in Manhattan, after police stopped Prodigy’s bulletproof Chevy Suburban for making a U-turn and driving the wrong direction down a one way street, in an attempt to secure a parking spot.

Police found an unlicensed .22 caliber handgun in Prodigy SUV and charged both men with gun possession charges. Charges against The Alchemist were eventually dropped but Prodigy plead guilty to his third count of possessing a gun.

Prodigy has been sentenced to a three and a half year prison term in October 2007 but has promised to deliver H.N.I.C. 2 on Koch Records in March 2008.

Prodigy said he’ll make good use of his time behind bars :"Throughout my life, I have always lived through adversity. I’m a survivor. You don’t understand the mental power that I have. While I am locked up, I’m going to be writing lyrics, working on the script for my second feature film, Dope, and finish writing an autobiography of my life which will be finished by the time I’m released".