Da Band rapper Freddy P claims he left the group after Diddy allegedly made threats against his life.
The 43-year-old sat down for an interview with The Art of Dialogue that was published on Friday (April 19), during which the Florida native claimed he got into it with Puff on a bad day and things escalated to the point of no return.
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“One day, I was waking up and I was in a mood,” he began. “I’m in the studio, I’m snapping or whatever. I didn’t even want to be fucked with. You know when you around a bunch of goofies and you a street n-gga, sometimes you don’t want to be around the nerds. So I’m in that bitch – I’m just frustrated with a lot of shit going on.
“Anyway, we get into a situation. We in front of everybody, n-gga like, ‘Man, what you think you bout it or something?’ He was like, ‘N-gga, I’ll buy every house on your block, shut every light off in that bitch and every time you come out that bitch, you’ll get popped.’ When he tell you some shit like that, you go to picture him purchasing every house, you going to picture every light going off and that shit silenced me.”
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This incident ultimately caused the rapper to stop working with the group, which explains his absence from Dave Chappelle‘s infamous Da Band parody skit. He also revealed that it made him consider murdering Diddy, though he obviously didn’t make good on that.
“I was trying to take his ass out,” he said. “Me and my dawg — God rest his soul — we had a G Wagon, and he had his little two twos, I had a little pistol on me or whatever. I had the MAC or whatever, and we were waiting for his pussy-ass to come out.”
This isn’t the first time Freddy P has spoken out against Diddy. Just a couple years back, in 2022, he said the music mogul is one of the main reasons he “hates life.” He also admitted that he considered suicide numerous times since leaving the show.
“This year alone I’ve contemplated suicide three or four times,” he said in an Instagram video. “I done pictured my brother walking in and finding me dead. I cried a few times thinking about leaving my son because I just get tired of life. But no matter what you gotta do you just gotta keep at it … there’s n-ggas that wanna see you fall.”
He continued: “Like this n-gga Puffy is the main muthafuckin’ reason why I hate fucking life, dawg. People don’t even understand. Like, I don’t even give a fuck. I’ve never been to a point where I thought of suicide my whole life, never. I mean, I’m a gangsta.
“I don’t even know how I started thinking like that. I done had it all and I fell to the bottom. How do you come back from that when you battling a giant? It ain’t got nothing to do with your skill no more ’cause your skill is 90 percent better than any n-gga that’s out there right now and the world knows it.”
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Making The Band ran for three seasons from 2000–2002. Under the New York City native’ tutelage, the show produced Da Band, Danity Kane, Day26 and Donnie Klang.
Boyband O-Town was also formed on the show, but that was during its first season with executive and notorious scam artist Lou Pearlman overseeing the entire operation.
