Making The Band aired for three seasons on MTV in the early 2000s, becoming a pop culture phenomenon in the process. Helmed by Bad Boy Records mogul Diddy, the music competition show spawned the artists O-Town, Da Band, Danity Kane, Day26 and Donnie Klang. But a few of those artists are coming forward with their Making The Band horror stories.
The show became a trending Twitter topic earlier this week when some old clips resurfaced online, with many concluding Diddy was basically running a “musical prison camp.” On Wednesday (March 2), Da Band rapper Freddy P admitted he’s been struggling with suicidal thoughts as he recounted his time on the show.
“This year alone I’ve contemplated suicide three or four times,” he says in the video. “I done pictured my brother walking in and finding me dead. I cried a few times thinking about leaving my son because I just get tired of life. But no matter what you gotta do you just gotta keep at it … there’s n-ggas that wanna see you fall.”
Freddy P then went on to explain how Diddy has wreaked havoc on his mental health with, “Like this n-gga Puffy is the main muthafuckin’ reason why I hate fucking life, dawg. People don’t even understand. Like, I don’t even give a fuck. I’ve never been to a point where I thought of suicide my whole life, never. I mean, I’m a gangsta.”
He added, “I don’t even know how I started thinking like that. I done had it all and I fell to the bottom. How do you come back from that when you battling a giant? It ain’t got nothing to do with your skill no more ’cause your skill is 90 percent better than any n-gga that’s out there right now and the world knows it. But it ain’t your skills … the world is built on relationships.
'Making The Band' Star Claims Diddy's MTV Show Was Designed For Artists To 'Fail'
Freddy P then brought DJ Khaled and Rick Ross into it, claiming Diddy’s relationship with them is based on him. The video took a sad turn when Freddy began to cry as he reflected on all of the things he’s been through since the show and claimed Diddy’s “legacy is fucked.”
Elsewhere, Freddy shared a meme that read, “Diddy going to hell. Between this and making them walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to get him some cheesecake. He added in the caption, “God knows if I was @diddy I would’ve done WAY MORE FOR THESE KIDS.. Any real ninja would’ve.. You start out JUST CHASING A DREAM.
“Then it QUICKLY GET SNATCHED AWAY.. Made me NEVER WANT TO RAP. God gone have the last laugh. My talent was given to me to touch hearts and homes an it was silenced. You silenced Gods plan. Everyone who ever took part will depart horribly from [the world].”
Willie Taylor, another former contestant on Making The Band, also shared his thoughts in an Instagram post.
“MAKING THE BAND WAS AN EXPERIENCE FOR SURE,” his post read. “BUT THE PLATFORM AND CONTRACTS WERE ALL SET UP FOR THE FAILURE OF HUNGRY TALENTS.”
He added in the caption, “Learning experience. You gotta understand that people will do to you whatever you allow them, so don’t let your passion drive you to the wrong destination. #MTB4 Day 26/Danity Kane are talented groups but the situation in which we met was designed to to fail.”
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What a limited mind frame this fool got. Man the f•ck up, dawg.
Let’s see what happens when Diddy runs up in you, would you say to the same thing. Give the man a break.
Diddy was already going to hell anyways for screwing over everybody else who was ever in Bad Boy Records (including Biggie) (Exclude The Lox cuz they got off the label) and for being a backwards mechanic. The Devil already had a room reserved for him, trust me.
Diddy must have violated him too. Told y’all he was gay. Ain’t no grown man going to be crying like that and be going through all that emotional unless Diddy took advantage of him physically, mentally,and sexually cuz dude is a jacked up and don’t know what to do. Yep, Diddy did it.
Should change the name from Making The Band to R**** The Band cuz that’s all he’s doing to them.
whos the best 5 rappers of all time? think about it.
Lame ass bum crying about getting cheesecake 20 years ago ahahahahah. Probably has mental health issues which I actually nothing to laugh about but blaming it on Diddu is a joke. Nobody would recognize this dude
Get up off them knees nukka
I mean there is more to life then music, if you ain’t making it in life that ain’t Diddy fault bruh lol
its ruthless out there in the world but i guess that is how it should be. i have been unemployed ten years i just don’t give a fuck i went to mcdonalds subway and burger king i only made $50. you go to employment agencies they say you gotta sell yourself something will come up pee wee. gangsters run this town they can send you to jail or the psychiatric hospital. with my living situation i am better off on the street the wolves are at the door. people are hurting including me we must all have problems. diddy lives for that almighty dollar.
Life is all lessons. You got free will and a free mind. Don’t blame anyone for your failures, they are just a piece of the puzzle that you need to figure out on how to be stronger and a smarter version of your old self. Hatred consumes progress. Likewise if someone says YOU are why my life sucks and I can’t move forward, you’d be like F-that, don’t blame me for your failures. Knowledge is power, use your brain.
I tried to really here him out and be objective, but he totally lost me when he said the reason his working relationship with Bad Boy ended because he refuses to “kiss ass”. If he wants to make his point, and just stand on that principle, it’s up to him.
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He can’t say the full story of what happened. You ain’t thinking about killing yourself today over some music industry shit from 20 years ago unless the man played with your booty in the process.
The music business is one of the shadiest businesses going and Puffy learned that shadiness from Berry Gordy who beat Motown artists out of hundreds of millions of dollars and he learned it from Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell and both of them were connected to Clive Davis and Arista and who knows how many hundreds of millions of even billions of dollars Clive has beat people for including Whitney Houston.
When these artists get into the music biz, they don’t realize they can own their own publishing and masters but people like Puff knows that which is why he tricked Biggie into signing over all of the publishing from the albums and songs Biggie wrote for himself and other Bad Boy artists.
First of all he ruined his own image by being a grown man still sucking his thumb. That should tell you the boy already had issues. None of them were special they spit decent but forgettable verses. E Ness had all that buzz now he’s a 3rd tier battle rapper.