A Bad Boy Artist Once Called Out Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for Lying About Their Relationship
In 2001, Bad Boy artist Moses “Shyne” Barrow went to prison for his involvement in a 1999 nightclub shooting while Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted. Barrow believed Diddy turned on him during the trial, landing him in trouble in order to free himself. Shortly before Barrow left prison, Diddy claimed they had a pleasant and productive conversation. Barrow adamantly denied that this talk ever happened.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs said he spoke to Bad Boy artist Moses ‘Shyne’ Barrow in prison
In 1999, Diddy, Barrow, and Jennifer Lopez were at a New York City club when gunfire broke out, injuring three people. Diddy, Barrow, and Lopez fled, but police arrested them. Barrow ultimately served eight years in prison before being deported to Belize.
Barrow felt Diddy betrayed him during the trial. It didn’t help that Diddy dropped him from Bad Boy two years into his prison sentence.
“When I was an 18-year-old kid, just wanting to do nothing other than make my mother proud and make Belize proud and … be recognized for my talent and take over the world,” he said, per USA Today. “I was defending him, and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me.”
In 2009, Diddy claimed he spoke to Barrow two weeks before he left prison.
“It’s a blessing that [Shyne’s] coming home,” Diddy said on New York radio station Hot 97 (per Vibe Magazine), adding, “I spoke to him like a couple of weeks ago and he sounded like he was in good spirits. I know he can’t wait to get home. I know he is definitely going to heat the whole scene up. He was definitely one of talented young artists that I had the pleasure to work with. I’m quite sure he’s been using his time wisely and has some heat.”
The Bad Boy artist said Diddy hadn’t contacted him
According to Barrow, the friendly conversation between himself and Diddy never happened. He made a point to publicly call him out for the story.
“I want it known that this supposed conversation is a figment of Sean Combs’ imagination,” he says in a statement, per Rolling Stone. “He never spoke with me, he never visited me nor would I ever accept a phone call or visit from him. The only way I would do either of those things would be if he stepped up and did the right thing for the victims of the incident.”
He said he has forgiven Diddy
While Barrow still resented Diddy in 2009, he recently said he has come to forgive him.
“This was not someone who I vacationed with and who … I enjoyed this great intimate relationship of brotherhood,” he said. “This is someone who destroyed my life, and who I forgave.”
He added that amid the still-accumulating allegations against Diddy, he doesn’t want to see him incarcerated.
“One of the things that I would never wish on my worst enemy is to be incarcerated … so I take no joy in anyone’s challenges,” Barrow said.
