You don’t even have to be from N.Y. to know how grimey our cops are — not as bad as the LAPD, but pretty damn close. According to Prodigy, Wayne ( who were both arrested last year) and others — the Hip Hop Police are no different:

After the gun was discovered, Prodigy and Alchemist were arrested and interrogated, though each claims he was barely questioned about the weapon. ” ‘We’ll let you go right now if you help us get a bust on 50 Cent,’ ” Prodigy says the police urged him. (50, another Queens product, was famously shot nine times in 2000, rose to superstardom three years later with his multi-platinum debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and is believed to be the NYPD’s top hip-hop target because he’s basking in the limelight while linked to several unsolved murders.) ” ‘Help us set him up. Get him to buy some drugs from you. Plant something in his car.’ I was sitting there bugging. They want to bring 50 down because he’s filthy rich, and they’re pissed off because he used to be involved in all kinds of street shit.”

They asked me all kinds of crazy questions and knew all types of stuff about rap,” Alchemist says. “They were like, ‘Do you know anything about who shot Fabolous? Do you know anything about 50?’ It was just ridiculous.” (Nine days earlier, the Brooklyn rapper Fabolous had been shot in the leg, then stopped by the police for running a red light en route to the hospital and arrested when two unlicensed, loaded guns were found in his Dodge Magnum.)

Asked what 50 Cent’s reaction was when Prodigy told him about his situation, Prodigy answers that 50 wasn’t surprised. “He already knows what time it is. 50 got cameras all inside his car. It just confirmed it for him. I didn’t get a chance to soup my bulletproof truck up like that yet. I was being lazy, and I got caught.”

And as we all probably remember, they did the same to Lil Wayne last year:

During an interview last year, New Orleans rapper Lil’ Wayne, the most prolific and productive MC of 2007, concurred, launching unsolicited into the story of his own highly publicized arrest after his first-ever show in New York, held in July at the Beacon Theater, wherein both he and Queens rapper (and 50 Cent rival) Ja Rule were pulled over separately and taken in upon leaving the performance. “When they locked me up in New York, they asked me about 50 Cent, G-Unit, and no fucking gun or weed like they made it look like on TV,” a heated Weezy explained during an interview for Vibe magazine. Reports claimed that both rappers were in possession of .40-caliber pistols, and that one of Wayne’s associates was found flushing half a pound of marijuana down the toilet. But at the time, Wayne says the cops didn’t consider that important. “They ain’t ask me a damn thing about no gun or no weed. That could have been the gun that shot Kennedy, they didn’t give a fuck! All they wanted to know was, ‘So what’s the beef with you and 50 Cent? You and Jay-Z?’ “

Lawyers aren’t surprised either:

“A number of these stops of late, they’re not legitimate,” says attorney Stacey Richman, who’s representing both Lil’ Wayne and Ja Rule. (Wayne has since been arrested for drug possession in both Idaho and Arizona.) “They’ll arrest a lesser person within a well-known person’s group and threaten them for information. People forget that the police are allowed to lie to you—that’s a legitimate investigative technique. It’s frightening and unpalatable to the public, but the fact of the matter is, they can do that.”

“50 is the big man right now,” says Derrick Parker. “There’s a lot of homicides out here that are linked to 50’s crew, and if you can get somebody like him, it’s a bonus prize.”

They’re using Prodigy to set up someone who’s bigger,” says Malcolm X Grassroots Movement organizer Kamau Franklin, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he focuses on police practice in New York. “It adds to promotion, publicity, and fame within the department. But obviously, targeting 50 Cent at this stage in his life is not something that’s going to stop crime.”

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In an interview with HipHopGame Prodigy takes a moment to throw Saigon (the retired rapper) under the bus:

I read somewhere that Saigon was like, ‘P’s not going to be able to come out of his cell when he’s in jail’ and that he’s the Yardfather and all this bullshit. What I’m trying to say is, “Dun, your album is never going to come out. You know what I’m saying? Don’t worry if I come out of my cell or not. Your album is never coming out.” The reason I said that is because like I said before is that I’m not really worried about problems in jail. The only thing I’m worried about is that I’m locked up and I can’t come out until they tell me I could come out. That’s how it is in jail. You can’t move in jail until they tell you to move. A lot of my niggas and a lot of my cousins are in jail right now doing way more time. I’ve been preparing for this all my life. My pops has been in jail. Half of my life my pops was locked up. I’ve basically been preparing for jail since I was a little kid. For a nigga to say, “P’s never going to come out of his cell,” nigga, your album is never coming out. Shut the fuck up. The Greatest Story Never Told, how about that?

Well, how bout it Sai?

Stemming from an old beef fueled by Prodigy’s comments in an interview, the Mobb Deep vs Saigon beef hit a critical point last night. In the video you see Saigon being homosexually close to Havoc on stage, next thing you know Saigon gets molly-rocked, then immediately perform his own rendition of the Runnin’ Man.

Mobb Deep Nigga!

*UPDATE* - Here’s another version of the video, which shows Prodigy getting ragged up (as usual):

Saigon has also updated his infamous MySpace Blog to share his thoughts on the events:

I Finally Got Prodigy….

I know you all are seeing this YouTube video of like 25 Mobb Deep niggaz chasing me out the club…And helll fucking yeah I dipped up up out of there untouched…..

But that was after I snuffed little punk ass Prodigy…They can edit it and lie all they want but , But when you hear the nigga say ‘Oh’ the first time is when i rock him… right before you see my man rock him, The second time is when my man rocks him… I rocked him first, thats what makes the kid with the red hat try to get at me and got everybody hype..Why didnt they slow down that part? If you notice I punch prodigy right into my mans hands…And fuck yeah I got up outta there…Them niggaz was 30 deep and I went to their party, grab the mic, did my song and punched Prodigy in his face.. (I wasnt even on the bill to perform) This nigga told me to suck his dick so he got rocked, at his show..Im not with the promoting violence shit and we couldve kept it between us, but these assholes go make a youtube video talking about I was hiding under a table and all this shit…Editing and lying about a watch and shit….Fronting ass niggas…Now i gotta show the real…

I see niggas laughing cause I was running up outta that mufucka, damn right..I think the shit looks funny as hell too…And all yall talking about I wouldve stayed there and got my ribs broken and all that, ya frontiing….or ya fucking stupid..I had already rocked Prodigy, it was time to dip up outta there…Shout out to Big Chris for the human sheild technique, He said, you got em, lets gooo and we went……I toooold Prodigy I was gonna get him…Whose story is real….? hahahaha I never take L’s….

Saigon goes on to address the edited version of the video:

Right when they say Im supposed to be hiding under the table, You see right before my man rocks Prodigy I give him the overhand right…Thats when the guy with the red hat tries to get at me.. Thats what sent prodigy flying into my man, who rocked em again…And I never got touched at all, That fat nigga fronting at the end, ya fronting, Nobody hit me, I was grabbed from behind….Edit shit all you want to promote havoc album…P know I got him though…And dipped up outta there..smooth….hahaha… Lets get the facts straight people…….

To which a commenter then replies:

You know what mane………………….straight fuck u Sai……………I’m fucking 19 and shit like that niggah, and I already know not to go on damn Facebook or Myspace to brag on a fucking sucker punch and shit……………I was feeling too mane, because i thought u was a cool ass cat, but you aint shit but another gangster with a record deal….I hope yo shit flop…..david banner shit gonna be better……..Just Blaze need to drop yo week ass

Awww… he don’t love Sai Sai no mo’!