Rumors and testimonials about the NYPD’s hip-hop taskforce have been a fixture on the rap music scene for the last 10 years. But after a friend of Fabolous’was killed in a club last November, and Prodigy was convicted on weapons charges (for which he is about to begin a 3 1/2 year sentence), these two rappers have increasingly been at the center of the debate.

Now, with a pair of cover stories under the headline “Cops Vs. Rappers,” weekly New York paper The Village Voice follows around and profiles the lives of these two MCs in the hopes of better understanding their woes with the law. .....more>>