As Sean “Diddy” Combs continues to face mounting authorized challenges and disturbing allegations in his ongoing federal case, not everyone seems to be satisfied of the hip-hop mogul’s supposed road credentials, together with Decide Greg Mathis.
The previous Michigan District Court docket choose and TV persona weighed in on Diddy’s character on a latest episode of his podcast, The Mathis Verdict. Whereas acknowledging the intense nature of the accusations towards Combs, Mathis questioned the concept Diddy was ever really feared in road circles.
“He’s a lot worse than a poisonous individual, he’s a monster from what they’ve been displaying and what we’ve been listening to,” Mathis admitted. “He’s a state crime monster.” However in the identical breath, he made it clear that from a road credibility perspective, Diddy didn’t encourage the sort of worry usually reserved for these with actual underworld reputations.
“Avenue guys don’t worry him,” Mathis stated bluntly. “They know he’s by no means been within the streets. He went to Catholic college, bought bullied, and tried to hyperlink up with some minor gang in Harlem that wasn’t even doing actual grime.”
Mathis speculated that Diddy’s tough-guy persona could be a projection rooted in his household legacy. “His father was an actual gangster — a heavy hitter in New York. And I heard his mother wasn’t one to be messed with both,” he defined. “So, there was a way of inherited worry, particularly with somebody linked to his father that everybody within the nation feared.”
That, in response to Mathis, is what could have emboldened Diddy to behave with an inflated sense of bravado. “That’s why I believe he felt so free being the powerful man,” he concluded.
Including to the dialog, Mathis’ son Amir identified that Diddy’s long-standing public picture could have caught up with him. “Once you carry out that persona over and over — in music movies, in public appearances — it turns into who you’re,” Amir stated. “It’s like telling a lie so usually you begin to consider it. I consider Diddy actually thinks he’s a gangster now.”
In the meantime, Diddy’s authorized saga continues to unfold. On the fifteenth day of proceedings, former lodge safety guard Eddy Garcia took the stand and testified that Combs paid him and colleagues to safe and hand over surveillance footage of an assault involving Cassie Ventura. That testimony provides one other layer to the rising checklist of explosive accusations in a case that continues to grip each the music world and authorized observers.
