Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Wrote to Tupac to Clear the Air While He Was in Prison
When Tupac Shakur was in prison, Sean “Diddy” Combs wrote him a letter in an attempt to smooth over the rivalry between them. Tupac had recently survived a shooting, and he appeared to implicate Diddy and the Notorious B.I.G. in the attack. Diddy claimed Tupac told him there were no problems between him.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wrote a letter to Tupac while he was in jail
Tupac went to prison in 1995 on sexual abuse charges. Just before this, he survived a shooting outside Quad Studios. In an interview, he hinted that Diddy had prior knowledge of the shooting. Diddy vehemently denied this.
“It was just like night and day from where it had been before,” he told Rolling Stone in 1997. “And then Tupac’s Vibe interview… I was like, ‘Where the f*** is this coming from? I’m not going to rob nobody!’ The only reason why I was at the studio was because Biggie had a session there, just like Tupac.”
He said he wrote Tupac in jail to try to clear the air between them. He claimed Tupac told him there was no problem between them.
“So I wrote Tupac in jail. I said, ‘I want to come see you. I don’t know if what the writer was saying in Vibe was true, that you really felt any of this. But whatever the situation is, I know me and Biggie want to just get it clear with you. We got nothing but love for you,’” he recalled. “He wrote back and said, ‘Well, Puff, everything’s cool. It ain’t no problem like that. I don’t really want us to have no meeting about it like that.’ So we take it like he didn’t want to blow it out of proportion. We were just waiting around until he got out of jail, thinking everything would be all right.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs said he was surprised by Tupac’s actions when he got out of jail
When Tupac got out of prison, though, the rivalry only heated up.
“Through different agitations or whatever the case may be, things just got worse,” Diddy said. “People started making records, and things got more on a rivalry note.”
He released the song “Hit ‘Em Up,” in which he directly called out Diddy and Biggie.
“Tupac was the biggest star hip-hop has ever seen. Hands down,” Diddy said. “His charisma, his personality, his whole s***. He was loved. But when it came to a situation when you in a war with somebody and you don’t want to fight the war? Then he was the worst. I was like, ‘Why do I got to be in a war with this motherf***er right here? This motherf***er is crazy.’”
He has denied having anything to do with Tupac’s death
In 2023, police arrested Duane “Keefe D” Davis for Tupac’s murder. Davis claimed Diddy offered him $1 million to kill Tupac, which he has denied.
“This story is beyond ridiculous and completely false,” Combs told AllHipHop.com. “Neither Biggie nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during, or after it happened. It is a complete lie to suggest that there was any involvement by Biggie or myself.”
