Rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, formerly of Bad Boy Records, blasted Sean “Diddy” Combs for damaging his life by casting him as the “fall guy” in the 1999 New York nightclub massacre.
When questioned about the arrest of his old mentor, the former rapper, who is currently a politician in his home country of Belize stated, “He pretty much sent me to prison.”
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He frequently declared, “This is someone who destroyed my life,” about the 10-year term he received for “defending” rapper and producer P Diddy.
Following the recent arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs, a former rapper and politician from Belize reopened old wounds during an interview on Belize’s Channel 5.
In 1999, Barrow claimed to have been in New York as “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.”
Rather, he claims that he ended up playing “the fall guy” for Diddy, also known as Puff Daddy or Puffy, when Combs, who was dating Jennifer Lopez at the time, fired a shot into the ceiling of a Midtown dance club, injuring three people.
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer and filmmaker, said that Combs bought off witnesses in the 1999 nightclub shooting case.
Combs testified before the jury that he was only fired in self-defense. Shyne, on the other hand, was the only one to get a jail sentence. He received a 10-year term for shooting two bystanders.
Barrow stated, “I was defending him, and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me.” He then noted, “Let us not lose sight of what the cold, hard facts are.”
Following a seven-week trial in March 2001, Diddy, Jones, and Shyne who was 21 at the time were all given free passes and received 10-year jail sentences. He stated of Combs, who is still in jail after being charged on September 17, 2024, with sex trafficking and racketeering, “This is someone who destroyed my life, but do I take any joy or satisfaction for what he’s going through?”
“Absolutely not,” he expressed.
After Combs was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, information about his prior run-ins with the law came to light.
In 2009, Shyne was finally set free and repatriated to Belize, where he currently serves as the House of Representatives’ Leader of the Opposition.
When asked if he was aware of Combs’s now-famous “Freak Offs,” in which prosecutors claim he coerced women into having sex with male prostitutes while masturbating and filming the occasionally day-long encounters, he laughed.
Shyne blurted aloud “Oh my goodness!” whilst chuckling. “I have nothing to do with Sean Combs’ personal life … everything was strictly on a professional level.”
