Prodigy : "Police asked me to set up 50 cent"

The rapper was sentenced to a three-and-a-half-year jail term earlier this month after accepting a plea deal, but during an interview with DJ Whoo Kid’s G-Unit Radio, Prodigy suggested he could have brought his prison time down even more.

He claims that police tried to get him to set up his G-Unit boss 50 Cent, by asking him to plant evidence inside the rapper’s car - but he wouldn’t do it. He told the DJ, "All they doing is making me stronger, they don’t even know what they doing. They making me Malcolm X right now."

Prodigy has revealed he’ll hold off the planned 2008 release of his new album, HNIC 2, but he’s hard at work on mix-tapes he plans to release through next year - as he serves his time.

He said, "I’ll always stay relevant in the streets through my music."

Prodigy will report to jail on January 9.