FERG is standing by Diddy‘s side amid his mounting allegations, emphasizing that the embattled mogul is like family and that, for now, it’s all just hearsay.
Appearing on The Breakfast Club to discuss his new album DAROLD on Tuesday (November 12), the topic came up early in the conversation when host Charlamagne Tha God noted they’d both changed their rap name over the years.
“Diddy is my family and I love his family,” FERG said. “I don’t know all of what’s going on with this case and everything like that and it’s a bunch of hearsay. Really it’s like, 1000 bottles of baby oil? What’s that have to do anything with him being a bad man? He’s just a rich man with bunch of baby oil.”
You can listen below around the 50-second mark.
FERG’s history with Diddy runs deep. In a 2013 interview, the Harlem rapper revealed his father had a connection with Puff in the rap mogul’s early days.
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“Puff was real cool with my pops. He did the Bad Boy logo. And [founder of Uptown Records] Andre Harrell, Heavy D, all of them, they kinda like started off together.”
“I guess he was like the artist of their day. He was the go-to person for logos, or to get t-shirts done,” he continued. “Because at that time, there ain’t no… big Jewish companies was printing the shirts and doing all of the artwork, and you had to have, like, crazy bread to do that stuff. Him, he was like in the projects.”
Meanwhile, Diddy has suffered another legal setback as he continues to fight multiple charges of sex trafficking.
The currently incarcerated mogul was seeking to have a gag order imposed on any potential witnesses involved in the trial given the high-profile nature of proceedings.
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He and his attorneys attempted to argue that any public statements made by alleged victims and potential witnesses and their legal representation could interfere with his right to a fair trial.
This was explicitly rejected by the case’s judge, Arun Subramanian.
In his ruling, Subramanian said: “Combs’s authorities don’t support a gag order applicable not only to trial participants but also to any alleged victim and their lawyer.”
He also claimed a gag order was a “last resort” measure for the courts and Diddy’s case did not yet warrant such a ruling.
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Diddy was also rejected in his bid to have Subramanian order the removal of social media posts made by witnesses, as well as having access to government communications regarding said posts.
Subramanian ruled: “The unprecedented relief that Combs seeks on this motion is unwarranted.”
