Shyne says he sympathizes with Diddy’s alleged victims, adding in a recent interview with Complex that he knows firsthand “what he’s capable of.”
In a conversation with Dimas Sanfiorenzo for Complex, as seen below, the Bad Boy alum and Belizean politician was asked whether he paid close attention to Diddy’s trial. As previously reported, Diddy, who’s set for release from prison in 2028, saw his trial end with a split verdict in July of last year.
“No, no. Listen, for me, I empathize with Cassie and the other people who were victims and made their allegations,” Shyne told Complex. “It’s reminiscent of what I went through when I was telling people that he snitched on me and he got people to lie on me and he's responsible for me going to prison. There was a period where people didn't really wanna hear that.”
These remarks, of course, are a reference to Shyne’s claims of having been made the proverbial “fall guy” for a 1999 nightclub shooting. In 2024, a Diddy spokesperson pushed back against these claims, calling them “unequivocally false.”
But as Shyne sees it now, if people had taken his claims seriously, things might have gone differently for Diddy in subsequent years.
“I think when you get away with things, you feel that you're untouchable,” he argued.
Still, due to his political obligations, Shyne said he simply “didn’t have time” to consume himself with trial updates. He does, however, hope that “justice was served” at the end of the day.
“But I know him and I know what he’s capable of,” Shyne said. “So, I definitely sympathize with the victims, right? I am inclined to believe the accusers because I know what it's like to make legitimate accusations and no one wants to believe you. So, I'm obviously biased, right? But I didn't comment. People were reaching out to me. I had no interest in commenting because it's not my crusade.”
Shyne went on to reveal that he did end up meeting the director of Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Alexandria Stapleton. While Shyne hasn’t watched the full documentary, he did offer praise to Stapleton and executive producer 50 Cent.
“I don't need to live everybody else's trauma because my trauma was enough,” he added. “What he did to me, man, you know what he did to me. You know, people lose their lives for that. So, what he did to me was enough. Like I said, I pray for the victims and I sympathize with them and I'm happy that Alex and and 50 were able to get together because 50 has a towering celebrity, a towering voice. He commands the algorithm and so people listen when he moves.”
The Reckoning, released last December, proved to be a massive success for Netflix. Expectedly, its release also brought on competing narratives, particularly in connection with 50’s involvement.
Diddy’s reps called the documentary “a shameful hit piece,” further criticizing 50 as “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta.” Netflix reps, however, stood by the production, saying that claims being made about the doc were “false” and asserting that the project “is not a hit piece or an act of retribution.”
