In September 2024, Sean “Diddy” Combs was taken into federal custody on intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses and denied bail.
With a highlight on the rapper’s alleged years of legal exercise — Diddy pleaded not responsible to the costs — Moses “Shyne” Barrow reminded the world of one other darkish chapter of Diddy’s historical past.
“That is somebody who destroyed my life,” Shyne mentioned of Diddy throughout a September 2024 press convention in Belize.
Shyne spent greater than eight years in jail after he, his then-mentor Diddy and Diddy’s then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, had been concerned in a capturing at a New York Metropolis nightclub in 1999. After an argument broke out, photographs had been fired and three bystanders had been injured.
Shyne was accused of capturing the injured events, although he has all the time maintained that he fired into the air. One injured witness, Natania Reuben, testified in 2001 that she noticed Diddy fireplace a gun. Shyne was finally convicted on expenses of first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and legal possession of an unlawful weapon, whereas Diddy was discovered not responsible of 4 weapons-related expenses and bribing his driver to assert possession of his gun.
“Everybody knew all alongside that I used to be the autumn man,” Shyne mentioned of the capturing throughout an April 2024 press convention. “Everybody knew, that was the story. … I keep my innocence.”
INF/INSTAR Sean “Diddy” Combs has been below investigation for a minimum of a yr after being accused of sexual assault by a number of folks. The rapper and music mogul, 54, made headlines in November 2023 after his ex-girlfriend Cassie accused him of sexual abuse in a bombshell lawsuit. She accused Diddy of beating her, forcing her to […]
Maintain scrolling for a take a look at Shyne and Diddy’s historical past over time:
1998
Shyne received the eye of report producer DJ Clark Kent whereas freestyling in Brooklyn. Kent then launched the younger rapper to Diddy, who rapidly signed Shyne to his label Unhealthy Boy Data.
1999
Shyne’s life was ceaselessly modified by the December 27 capturing at Manhattan’s Membership New York. Diddy, Shyne and Lopez had been all initially arrested, detained and charged for his or her involvement, however the expenses in opposition to Lopez had been rapidly dropped.
2001
After a weeks-long trial, Diddy was discovered not responsible of all expenses associated to the capturing whereas Shyne was sentenced to 10 years in jail with out the eligibility for parole till 2009.
2009
Shyne was launched from jail in October 2009.
“It’s a blessing that he’s coming dwelling,” Diddy mentioned in an interview on Sizzling 97 shortly earlier than Shyne’s launch, per CBS Information. “I spoke to him like a few weeks in the past and he gave the impression of he was in good spirits.”
4 weeks after Shyne’s launch, he was deported to his dwelling nation of Belize regardless of spending a lot of his life in the US. He moved to Brooklyn to reside together with his mom when he was 7 years outdated however continued to spend summers in Belize together with his father.
After his deportation, Shyne went on to have a profession in politics and is at the moment the Chief of the Opposition within the Belize Home of Representatives and the chief of the Belize United Democratic Get together.
Years earlier than two of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ houses had been raided in connection to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation, there was dialog about what went on on the rapper’s residences. After the March 2024 raid made headlines, a clip resurfaced of Usher recalling his expertise dwelling with Diddy as an adolescent. “I received an opportunity to […]
March 2012
Shyne and Diddy had been photographed sitting aspect by aspect at a Style Week present in Paris.
“You’ll be able to’t overstate the cultural significance of what Shyne and Diddy reconciling means,” Shyne informed XXLMag in a press release on the time. “You already know I’m about it on the subject of them hammers, thus sadly this might have ended like Tupac and B.I.G. However what if Tupac and B.I.G ended like this and reconciled? Let’s rejoice this second as a historic occasion and a victory for hip-hop and Afro and Latin American males skilled to exterminate one another. It’s a brand new day! L’chaim!!!”
April 2012
Shyne spoke out about his time in jail throughout an look on 7 Information Belize.
“The whole course of was devastating. Ten hours of incarceration is ten hours an excessive amount of. So, for a human being to be animalized for ten years, there isn’t a fast repair to that,” he mentioned. “Once I got here out I didn’t even notice how wounded and devastated I used to be as a result of I numbed myself to the ache and destruction that I suffered.”
He additionally recalled how troublesome it was when his mom came around him.
“My mom couldn’t take a look at me; she would begin to shake, and he or she would go off the ground and go to the toilet. I couldn’t course of that as a result of if I cried in entrance of her then that may make her life go to shambles,” he defined. “If I cried in entrance of the jail guard, they might suppose that I used to be weak. So I’m going again to the yard and raise some weights, smoke a cigar and act like nothing occurred. Once you come out from that, how do you get well?”
August 2012
Regardless of seemingly mending fences, Shyne took purpose at Diddy on his diss observe “You’re Welcome,” addressing the occasions that led as much as his incarceration.
“I have to know, how my co-d known as witness to sacrifice me simply so he can get away free? / This doesn’t adjust to the streets,” Shyne rapped. “However he ain’t from there, this isn’t a smear / That is what they concern, the entire reality, I swear.”
November 2022
Shyne introduced that Diddy had agreed to pay for one Belizean scholar’s full scholarship to Howard College in the US.
“Schooling has all the time been extraordinarily necessary to my expensive brother Diddy and I thus in that vein requested Diddy to make Belize part of his philanthropic help for his alma mater, Howard College, in order that a minimum of one Belizean Pupil can get the good thing about attending one of many United States’ most prestigious HBC Universities,” Shyne mentioned in a press release on the time, per Loop Caribbean Information. “I thank Diddy for all the time supporting my efforts to assist Belize in each manner doable.”
Celebrities are weighing in following the current arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs. The music mogul was taken into custody in New York on September 16. The next day, a 14-page indictment alleging that Diddy “abused, threatened and coerced girls and others round him” was made public. The rapper has since entered a not responsible plea […]
March 2024
The 1999 capturing made headlines as soon as once more, the identical month that Diddy’s Los Angeles and Miami houses had been raided in connection to a intercourse trafficking investigation. Natania Reuben appeared on NewsNation to assert that Diddy, not Shyne, had shot her within the face that fateful night time.
“I’m prepared to have a health care provider take away part of the 9 mm bullet in my face in order that they’ll use it as proof if want be for this trial,” she mentioned. “Who higher to inform you what occurred than the one who received shot smack dab in between my eyes?”
April 2024
Shyne reacted to Reuben’s new feedback in regards to the capturing in a press convention.
“It opens wounds while you hear the sufferer saying it was Diddy that shot her,” he mentioned. “I’ve accomplished my finest to place it behind me and to maneuver ahead, nevertheless it actually reopens the injuries that I’ve been saying this all alongside. Everybody knew all alongside that I used to be the autumn man however my political enemies and detractors tried to make me into this legal, however everybody knew that I used to be a younger child that took the autumn. Everybody knew, that was the story. … I keep my innocence. … I’m relieved that individuals are saying what the reality is: that I didn’t shoot these folks.”
September 2024
Shortly after Diddy was taken into federal custody on expenses of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, Shyne was requested about his historical past with the music mogul throughout a press convention in his native Belize. Shyne said that he had “no enterprise relationship” with Diddy regardless of their earlier collaboration on scholarships for Belizean college students.
“Allow us to not lose sight of what the chilly, arduous details are. This was not somebody who I vacationed with and [with whom] I loved this nice, intimate relationship of brotherhood. That is somebody who destroyed my life and who I forgave … for the higher curiosity of Belize,” Shyne mentioned. “As a result of he was able at the moment to present scholarships and perhaps make investments. I might not deny trying to convey the funding to Belize.”
Shyne additionally mentioned that Diddy “testified in opposition to” him throughout his 2001 trial.
“I used to be defending him and he rotated and known as witnesses to testify in opposition to me and he just about despatched me to jail,” he mentioned. “That’s the context by which it’s essential to additionally describe that relationship.”
Regardless of their painful historical past, Shyne mentioned he “completely [does] not” take “any pleasure or satisfaction” in Diddy’s arrest as incarceration is one thing he wouldn’t want on his “worst enemy.”
November 2024
Shyne. Roy Rochlin/Getty Photos
After Shyne sat down for a sequence of interviews reiterating that he was a scapegoat for the 1999 capturing — even calling the plan “demonic” — Diddy responded with a powerful denial.
“Mr. Combs categorically denies Mr. Barrow’s allegations, together with any suggestion that he orchestrated Mr. Barrow to ‘take the autumn’ or ‘sacrificed’ him by directing witnesses to testify in opposition to him,” a rep for Diddy informed TMZ. “These claims are unequivocally false.”
“Mr. Combs was acquitted of all expenses associated to the 1999 Membership New York incident and has persistently maintained his innocence,” the rep continued. “He can not settle for or condone any characterization of his actions as ‘demonic’ or ‘malicious.’”
Throughout Shyne’s current spate of interviews, which included appearances on Good Morning America and The Stephen A Smith Present, the previous rapper and politician additionally promoted his Hulu documentary, The Honorable Shyne.