Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘Destroyed’ the Life of a Bad Boy Artist After He Defended Him
In 1999, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Bad Boy artist Moses “Shyne” Barrow were arrested following a shooting at a nightclub. While Diddy was acquitted, Barrow received a 10-year prison sentence on assault charges. Barrow said that he tried to protect Diddy from prison time, but his label executive did not return the favor. According to Barrow, Diddy “destroyed” his life by offering witnesses against him in the trial.
Bad Boy artist Shyne said Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs turned on him
Diddy and Barrow were at a club together in 1999 when gunfire broke out. When the two of them and Diddy’s then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, fled the scene, police arrested them. While all three were arrested, only Diddy and Barrow were charged. Barrow claimed that he tried to protect Diddy, but Diddy provided witnesses to place the blame on him. This landed him in prison for a decade.
“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.”
Diddy later said he had spoken to Barrow in prison and that he was “in good spirits.” Barrow denied that this conversation ever happened.
“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 since forgiven Diddy
After Barrow left prison, he was deported back to his birth country, Belize. He has since become the Opposition Leader in the House of Representatives and hopes to become the country’s prime minister. He also said he has forgiven Diddy.
“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.”
In the face of Diddy’s current legal problems and the accumulating accusations against him, Barrow said he still doesn’t hope to see him in prison.
“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.
Suge Knight said this made him lose almost all respect for his rival
At the time of Barrow’s imprisonment, Diddy and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight had been feuding for years. Still, Knight said that this was the point when he lost almost all respect for Diddy.
“I would do what I can do to get [Barrow] out,” he told Wendy Williams, per her book The Wendy Williams Experience. “He don’t necessarily have to be an artist on Tha Row, but I would do it because I think that was like one of the worst things that could happen to anybody. That’s when I had a little, little, little, little respect respect for Puffy. The little respect was ‘cause he’s black. After what he did to Shyne —”
He said he saw Diddy as a “rat” and a “snitch.”
