Fat Joe has joined the chorus of people who have shown support for Diddy amidst his ongoing legal issues.
The Terror Squad leader sat down at Hot 97 on Friday (March 29), and shared his thoughts on the Bad Boy mogul’s struggles.
“What I can say in the most respectful way is, I don’t know all the details,” he said at the 7:45 mark. “But I’ve been praying for him and his family. He’s my friend for 30 years. And so, I’m gonna just see what the outcome is, and I’m praying for the best thing for him, and his family, and everybody involved.”
He continued: “So I’m not disrespecting nobody. I’m just praying for this whole situation — this whole nightmare — I’m praying that it goes away.”
Check out the full interview below.
Fat Joe is just the latest Hip Hop luminary to speak about Diddy, who is facing a myriad of sexual assault allegations.
In a new sitdown on The Baller Alert Show, Maino drew some historical parallels, but not before making fun of one of the Bad Boy head honcho’s accusers, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones.
“You got some dude named Lil Rod,” Maino began. “First of all, there should be a fucking pause on his name. The n-gga’s name [is] Lil Rod? That’s pause.”
Maino went on to compare the numerous lawsuits accusing Diddy of sexual assault — as well as an ongoing reported federal sex trafficking investigation against the mogul, — to the FBI’s COINTELPRO (COunterINTELligence PROgram), which targeted organizations it viewed as subversive, including the Black Panther Party.
The program officially ran from 1956 to 1971, though the Bureau has used similar techniques both before and after.
Maino said that he saw similar dynamics in the complaints and investigation against Diddy, drawing parallels to the Bureau’s “snitch jacketing” technique of falsely labeling a member of a targeted group as a police informant.
“[I]f you know anything about the ’60s and what they did with Black leadership and all that, these were some of the tactics,” Maino said. “To destroy you, basically they divide and conquer.
“COINTELPRO, what they would do was, they would put out misinformation. Have us looking at each other. They sending out letters and sending out things saying, this one talking about that one, this one got caught doing this. And it keeps us disorganized. Also, propaganda, which is fueled through the media, is a tool that’s always been used.”
Such a bitch statement. With this kind of serious allegations, pray for the truth to cone out, not for it to go away.
Stfu, losers like you only want TMZ drama.
tmz drama? people shouldn’t be standing by his side, people should be condemning him idiot
I’ve gained a new level of respect for Fat Joe. As Dave Chappelle said, the hardest thing a person can do, is go against their “tribe”. Anyone that defends Diddy gets dragged all over social media so you know Joe is a person who stands on his beliefs. Diddy hasn’t been issues any federal charges for anything yet everyone is quick to condemn him. Times like this shows you who your true homies are. Cause it’s easy for people to go with the tribe and distance themselves from you cause everyone else is.
and ive gained a new level of disrespect to your dumb ass comment. diddy has been screwing over mad amount of artists, and the feds don’t go at you for no reason. people are quick to condemn him because they know the kind of character he represents and it’s been coming for a long time. there’s being a loyal, and there’s being loyal to a fault, and that beluga whale is doing the latter. people like you don’t understand the true value of loyalty because you wouldn’t mess with people that did some henious shit.
And thank you for proving my point. First it’s easy for people to pile on cause they just don’t like Diddy. As an executive what did Diddy do that was “shady” that’s not part of the music industry? He owned peoples masters, that’s a part of the music industry you can argue it shouldn’t be but it is. A Label invests a lot of money in an artist and if they flop, the label is left with literally nothing but a bill and the artists masters. Other than that he’s been clowned for acting sus, which isn’t a crime. Now all of Sudden you’re saying that Diddys a sex and drug trafficker? Also it’s amazing how everyone wants to sue Diddy now. I’m not saying Diddy is innocent or guilty but I’m not going to be one of these people that convict someone in the court of public opinion cause everyone else is doing it. I just find it mighty interesting how everything is happening at once. Also they still haven’t arrested this man or banned him from travel. You have a billionaire who could literally leave the country at any moment…yet no travel bans.
Look up what gene deal has said about him. Just because it’s an industry practice doesn’t mean it’s not slimy. Listen to what mark curry has to say, Loon, Mase, and look how he did Shyne. He didn’t give anyone their publishing until the whole 2pac thing heated up back in the fall. I’m not disliking him for no reason, I dislike him because his character has come into question a numerous amount of times. And why did he settle with cassie if he didn’t do it? And again, the feds don’t go at you for no reason. He’s eventually going to indicted by a grand jury. It goes beyond public opinion, it’s the facts that’s presented this dude as a slimeball and messed up individual. It’s looking bad for the dude and you gotta stop being a contrarian.
Really? COINTELPRO? For Diddy? You think he’s working on behalf of Black People? GTFOH. If anything he’d be the informant. Stop making excuses for these community destroyers. Diddy is, at best, being extorted. But in all likelihood, he’s just the narcissistic psychopath they are investigating him to be.
How TF do you extort a butt pirate? By promising NOT to send them to jail lol. If he was really innocent then he should have nothing to worry about but he’s stressing like a fat chick at Panera Bread
reserve your judgement for any court proceedings i don’t want to take anything away from sean he might visit here jeffery epstein similar shit he and prince andrew fucked with some barely legals but i can let it slide innocent until proven motherfucking guilty…..
These dudes supporting him are afraid it will come out that they’ve been at his deviant sex parties and have known about his activities. It’s most likely a ton of people in the entertainment industry knew about this. The rumors have been on the internet going back like 25 years, they had to come from some one with firsthand knowledge
Puff will tell on everyone to stay outta jail as much as he can. I’m sure he has dirt on a lot of mofos that’s turning on him.