Mark Curry thinks that Sean "Diddy" Combs may have gotten "political favors" in exchange for keeping the identities of people on his infamous "freak-off" tapes a secret.
The former Bad Boy artist shared his belief on the Let’s Be Clear podcast when asked about the tapes and the power that they have. "I believe there's a lot of political power, a lot of strings, that can be pulled just by those tapes — because the people on them were really high-end people," Curry said (around the 32-minute mark in the video below).
Giving an example scenario afterwards, Curry claimed that if the Director of the NFL was on one of the tapes, then Diddy would have used that information to be in charge of NFL halftime shows for a decade.
"I need these political favors," added Curry, before imitating Diddy speaking to someone in the US government. "You gotta put that together, because what do I need to do to make these tapes go away? And that’s what they did. They made the tapes go away."
"We still haven’t seen them," Curry continued. "We’ll probably never see them."
Elsewhere in the interview, Curry explained the power that he believed Diddy had at his highest point. "He could bring television to life and put it in front of himself," he said.
Curry previously spoke about Diddy in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning documentary, executive-produced by 50 Cent. In it, Curry detailed his time as a Bad Boy artist and Combs' alleged manipulation.
In an interview with WIS TV last month, Curry spoke about how meeting Diddy turned out to change his life for the worse. "When I met Puff I was like, 'Wow, this is gonna make my dream happen' … And it wasn’t easy," Curry said. "I thought that meeting him was gonna be a blessing. It was actually a curse."
"When I lost my parents… they were both alive when I knew Puff," Curry added later. "My father used to tell me, don’t trust him… And I lost my father and I believed in him [Combs] still."