Diddy was hurt by L.A. Times article
Posted by Media Outrage on April 7th, 2008
Diddy says that his feelings were hurt by the L.A. Times article linking him to the ambush of Tupac Shakur.
Here’s what he told MTV:
“I’ve been through so much; hip-hop has been through so much; Biggie’s, Tupac’s [families] have been through so much. To rehash the lies and just rumors like that, I didn’t understand where that was coming from. I knew that I would never — me and Biggie would never be involved, or even have any knowledge of that. Because if we have knowledge of something, we the type of people that’s gonna warn somebody, we’re gonna tell somebody. It just really hurt.
Just knowing how people in this day and age, what they read online and what they see in the papers, they just take it as fact,” Diddy explained. “It’s like, come on, I been working so hard to rise above all of this stuff, and to see it now trying to pull me back down.
[But] I stayed focused, I was still. My grandmother told me, ‘Be still.’ No matter what it feels like, be still. And I was still and then the truth came out the way it was to come out. I didn’t jump up and down about it. I let them give the apology and let people go back to the things they need to be focusing on about me, which is the #1 albums I’m dropping with Danity Kane and Day 26, #1 fragrances, Janelle Monae, making this black history. And that’s what it’s about. But it’s important to really deal with things however they come at you. And I’ve always done that my whole life and just always told the truth.”
On whether he’ll call for the writer to be fired…
It’s so ridiculous for me, I’m not even giving no energy to it,” Diddy said. “I don’t wish anybody no ill will. I’m just glad the truth came out. I can’t even really justify it with no more energy, so I don’t even wanna talk about it no more.
“I don’t know what I’ll do [as far as legal action]; I can’t say what I’ll do,” he finished. “I’m just moving on.”
