Prodigy of rap group Mobb Deep has received a break when a judge postponed his sentencing to give doctors time to
gather medical records documenting his sickle cell anemia in a Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, January 8.

Prodigy,
whose real name is Albert Johnson, 33, was supposed to begin a
3-1/2-year sentence today, January 9, in state prison for carrying a loaded, unregistered
.22-caliber gun in his $150,000 bulletproof SUV in 2006.

But
Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin decided the rapper’s doctors
should get five weeks to produce records documenting his life-long
illness. McLaughlin agreed to talk to state correction
officials about assigning the Mobb Deep star to a prison with easy
access to medical personnel.

Johnson’s lawyer, Irving Cohen,
said his client has been in and out of hospitals his entire life with
sickle cell disease, a genetic, incurable blood disorder that can lead
to organ damage, stroke and other problems.