Shyne Reacts to Diddy’s Arrest, Says Combs ‘Destroyed’ His Life

Former Dangerous Boy rapper Moses “Shyne” Barrow has spoken out following Diddy’s arrest earlier this week on racketeering and sex-trafficking expenses.

Shyne, who serves because the Chief of the Opposition within the Belize Home of Representatives, shared his ideas relating to his former boss’s authorized troubles with the media on Wednesday (Sept. 18).

“After I was an 18-year-old child simply eager to do nothing aside from make my mom proud and make Belize proud and be acknowledged for my expertise and take over the world,” he stated. ‘I used to be defending him, and he rotated and referred to as witnesses to testify towards me. He contributed … he just about despatched me to jail. That’s the context by which you need to at all times describe that [relationship]. I forgave. I moved on. However allow us to not faux as if I used to be in Miami for Thanksgiving and Christmas.”

Shyne is referencing the case surrounding a December 1999 NYC nightclub capturing at he, Diddy and Jennifer Lopez (the mogul’s girlfriend on the time) had been all current throughout; Shyne ended up being charged with assault and sentenced to 10 years behind bars in June 2001. He was in the end launched in 2009 and deported to Belize.

He continued: “So, allow us to not lose sight of what the chilly, laborious info are. This isn’t somebody who I vacationed with and who he and I loved this nice, intimate relationship of brotherhood. That is somebody who destroyed my life and who I forgave and who I moved on and for the higher curiosity of Belize, as a result of he was able at the moment to present scholarships and to possibly make investments, I’d not deny making an attempt to convey the funding to Belize and contribution to schooling to Belize.”

“Don’t distort it as if he and I had been increase bally. That is somebody that destroyed my life,” he continued. “However do I take any pleasure with what he’s going via? Completely not. I’m totally different than different folks — nobody must fail for me to succeed.”