In an interview with Cam Newton, rapper Yung Joc reflected on his relationship with Diddy and said that he was never exploited during his time signed to Bad Boy South.
Newton asked Joc if he watched the 50 Cent-produced Netflix documentary about Diddy, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, and he confirmed that he did. Asked if he had any inkling about Diddy’s alleged behavior, Joc suggested that he never saw that side of the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder, who is currently serving time in prison on prostitution charges.
“I’mma share something with you,” he said. “It won’t be that revealing. What I’m going to share with you is just like… talking to a parent, and they filter certain things from you. ‘Cause I don’t want to seem like I question me and Puff’s business relationship, or the sum of our personal relationship. I want to seem like I question it, because anything I ever asked for… Homie greenlit that shit. You know what I’m saying? I didn’t experience what a lot of people have experienced or made allegations to have experienced with him.”
Newton said that there’s a “narrative or a perception” that Bad Boy artists were taken advantage of during their time working with the label, but Joc said he never had any issues.
“That’s what I’m telling you, though,” he said. “I didn’t have those issues. And I think you had some artists who had a different level of protection, or filtration enough for them, too. … I don’t know how well he put up a screen for them… In these processes of dealing in Bad Boy South, you know, [there] was moments that I didn’t understand.”
Joc said there was a time when he was invited to do an event with Diddy, but the head of Block Entertainment, Russell “Block” Spencer, prohibited him from doing so. “He like, ‘No, you my artist,’” Joc recalled. “I’m like, ‘What the fuck is you talking about, bro? I’m grown, I’m married. I pay bills, I pay taxes… I said, ‘I don’t give a fuck who I’m signed to, n***a. I go where I want to go.’ He was like, ‘No, little bro. I won’t let you go.’ … But as time goes on, you sit back, you have to ask yourself: Was I being protected from something that moment?”
He said that he went to Diddy’s parties in the past, and everything “seemed to be all the way straight up,” and he “had some great times” at those parties. “Him and his girlfriend, they was just freaky as shit,” he continued. “Everybody got issues. … It’s crazy when I hear certain shit… I still have to process it differently. I’m in media and I’ve watched the narrative be spin on me before, brother. I’m not saying nothing was spin on him, I’m just saying I done seen shit be spin on me before.”
He said that he believes there’s “a lot of truth” to the documentary about Diddy, but he also thinks there’s also things that have been “twisted,” too. He never witnessed any of the alleged behavior, however. “Everything was always on the up and up,” he said. “He wasn’t in any of my videos, but I was on videos with his other artists… There was no moments to Lil Rod me.”
Watch the full interview up top.