Jay Electronica has called for Sean "Diddy" Combs to be freed from prison following the Bad Boy mogul's conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
On Saturday (April 11), Jay Electronica performed at Lincoln's Beard Brewing in Miami, and during his set, he took a moment to share some words of support for his longtime friend and collaborator.
"Free Puff by the way," the Roc Nation rapper told the crowd. "They tried to hang my dawg on some bullshit, just 'cause a n***a like to get nasty they tried to hit him with the book of words."
This isn't the first time Jay Electronica has shown support for Diddy. Back in 2018, he defended the music mogul after Eminem jokingly accused Puff of 2Pac's murder on his Machine Gun Kelly diss, "Killshot."
"Killshot, I will not fail, I'm the Doc still / But this idiot's boss pops pills and tells him he's got skills / But Kells, the day you put out a hit's the day Diddy admits / That he put the hit out that got ‘Pac killed," Em raps near the end of the song.
Unimpressed with Em's lyrics, Jay Elec issued a warning to the Detroit rap legend on X, writing: "How dare you accuse Diddy of killing Tupac while you completely look pass Jimmy Iovine and those who profited from his death the MOST. You best tread carefully son, before I come tear your ivory tower down like Sulaiman done the Templar Knights."
Jay Electronica and Diddy's friendship dates back over a decade, to the point that Jay shouted out the music mogul on his 2009 breakout hit, "Exhibit C.”
"Diddy send a text every hour on the dot saying, 'When you gon' drop that verse? N***a, you taking long,'" he raps. "So now I'm back spittin' that heat, could pass a polygraph."
On Jay Electronica's latest album, A Written Testimony: Leaflets, which arrived in September, an incarcerated Diddy shared a message about hip-hop on the intro track "Abracadabra."
"Leaflets, leaflets, they want me to talk some shit. Talk some shit about my n***a Jay Electronica," Diddy says on the song. "I hope he put out this muthafuckin' album, he ain't bullshitting, for real, man 'cause people gotta feel that real soul, you know what I’m saying?
"Hip-hop is in a very, very dangerous place, you know," Diddy continues. "Give them that shit, you know what I'm saying? Live at they souls, lift up they vibration. That’s what God sent you here to do, you know? That’s why we wait so long. We wait for things that are good ‘cause good things come to those who wait."
Meanwhile, Diddy's legal team recently battled with prosecutors in front of a three-judge panel at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals as they work on getting an early release for the disgraced hitmaker.
Complex was on the scene—read the recap here.
