Hitmaka has accused Diddy of trying to sabotage his career and poach talent from him, describing the Bad Boy boss as “diabolical.”
Speaking on The Joe Budden Podcast, the producer detailed his experiences with Puff over the years and suggested the embattled record executive has a vendetta against him.
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Hitmaka (who previously went by Yung Berg) began by saying Diddy asked him to work on his star-studded R&B project The Love Album: Off the Grid, but things quickly soured when the Harlem-bred mogul took issue with the beats he submitted.
“Puff hit me, he like, ‘Yo, I’m doing an R&B album, I need you, you the guy. It’s gonna be London on Da Track, you and me and I think we should do everything together. Send me some joints,'” he recalled.
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“I send him a 10 clip, crazy shit. He hit me back like, ‘I want that [Yung] Berg shit, stop trying to be me. It sound like you trying to do what I do, n-gga. Send me some different shit.'”
He continued: “So I didn’t send him nothing. I was like, ‘Fuck it.’ Next thing I know, the n-gga deciphered my records and reached out to everybody I collaborated with and dissected me from the situation.
“So he called Cardiak to his house like, ‘You need to be one of The Hitmen.’ Next thing, Eric Bellinger is in the Bahamas with muthafuckin’ Puff and they’re singing songs together.”
Hitmaka also accused Diddy of taking his producer tag off the intro to French Montana‘s They Got Amnesia album, which the Bad Boy founder featured on.
“I was like, ‘Damn, this n-gga is really diabolical,'” he added. “So I wasn’t fucking with him.”
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The multi-platinum producer alleged that Puff’s issues with him date back to the late 2000s when the record executive turned his production partner Rob Holladay against him.
“When I was a kid, when I had ‘Sexy Lady’ and all them songs, he called me to Daddy’s House and was like, ‘Man, who’s producing your records?'” he remembered. “I’m like, ‘Me and my brother Rob Holladay. I signed him, he’s doing this shit with me.’
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“Next thing I know he signed Rob Holladay. Put that n-gga on jets and turned the n-gga against me, had him stop working with me and all type of shit. So this is a recurring type of thing.”
The Chicago native also said that when Tink‘s 2023 album Thanks 4 Nothing, which he largely produced, topped the charts, he received a call from Diddy claiming that his own artist, Jozzy, would soon dethrone them.
“He was like, ‘N-gga, you in good company. Jozzy No. 2, Tink No. 1.’ I’m like, ‘N-gga, you in good company. I’m No. 1. The fuck you talking about?'” he said.
“He like, ‘N-gga, you know the type of money I’ve spent — you ain’t gonna be in that spot for long!’ And shit, I stayed in that spot and she didn’t.”
HipHopDX has reached out to Diddy’s team for comment but has not yet received a response.
Hitmaka previously slammed Diddy in 2022 for claiming that R&B was dead.
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“Diddy done lost his whole damn mind talking bout R&B dead,” he wrote on X. “It’s so much good R&B out if u can’t notice u gotta be outta touch. Stop trolling.”
The Bad Boy Records founder had sparked a debate among fans of the genre during an Instagram Live conversation with fellow hitmaker Timbaland.
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“R&B is muthafucking dead as of right now,” he said. “The R&B I made my babies to? R&B gotta be judged to a certain thing — it’s the feeling, though.
“You gotta be able to sing for R&B and then you gotta tell the truth. R&B is not a hustle. This shit is about feeling your vulnerability.”
