Shyne has revealed that Brandy gave him a brutal reality check during an argument when she was also romantically involved with fellow Bad Boy rapper Ma$e.
Appearing on The Breakfast Club, the rapper-turned-politician spoke about the love triangle between the three artists in the 1990s and how the “Boy is Mine” singer cut him down to size.
“Ma$e was dating a girl and I started dating the girl, and that caused a big thing. We had to have a family meeting,” he said. “It was like Kobe coming to the Lakers and going after Shaq’s joint. You can’t do that.
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“That’s what I was on in ’98, I wasn’t focused. It wasn’t until ’99 after that same girl, who was also seeing Ma$e, she’s selling millions of records, she had the biggest record that year — DJ Clark Kent says who it is in the documentary.
“We had an argument and she said, ‘You’re nobody. You ain’t sold one record. You think you’re stylin’, you think you’re that — you’re nothing. You haven’t sold a record.’ And that hit me like the hand of God to slap me back into reality because she was telling the truth.”
DJ Clark Kent, who recently passed away, claimed in the Hulu documentary The Honorable Shyne that the Belize rapper and Ma$e were both dating Brandy at the same time, though the R&B star and It Is What It Is co-host have yet to confirm that.
Elsewhere in the interview, Shyne recalled Diddy visiting him while he was in prison following their controversial nightclub shooting in 1999.
“He came to see me once, and I tried to spit in his face,” the “Bad Boyz” hitmaker said. “I didn’t even know he was coming to see me. They just brought me down in the lawyer’s office.”
Shyne also talked about what happened when he visited his former label boss in 2012, three years after his release from prison, and how he was anticipating the trip would come with a major payday.
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“I got out in 2009. There wasn’t an attempt at reconciliation until 2012, when I went to Paris to meet him,” he said. “I was still in a place of, He owes me his life. He’s a billionaire. If it wasn’t for me, he wouldn’t have been a billionaire.
“He probably gave me like 50 racks [$50,000], and I’m like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ That’s 10 years? Fifty racks?”
