Suge Knight says former rival hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs “should definitely walk” three weeks into his federal trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
The Death Row records founder, real name Marion Knight, appeared on NewsNation Tuesday to weigh in on the trial and the testimony of the Bad Boy founder’s former assistant, Capricorn Clark. Hours earlier, Clark alleged that Harlem-born Combs, 55, kidnapped her in 2011 while armed, so she would help “kill [Kid] Cudi.”
“I say this all the time: Puffy and I definitely not friends, but Puffy should definitely walk,” said 60-year-old Knight, who is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for manslaughter, related to a 2015 hit-and-run in his native Compton.
“It was other executives that was involved in Puffy’s life. And for Puffy to be the only guy that gets on the stand is a sad day for hip-hop.”
Clark on Tuesday testified that, prior to joining Bad Boy in 2004, she signed with Death Row Records. She identified Knight as “the father of my best friend’s children.”
Combs, she said, calmly “told me he didn’t know that I had anything to do with Suge Knight and if anything happened he would have to kill me.”
“When it’s all said and done, how [come] every person who was involved with Puffy is not on the stand? It’s just Puffy. So, at some point, the law gotta be blind,” said Knight, whose legal issues date back to 1992. “Death Row and the employees at Bad Boy were really good friends, a lot of them.”
He said Death Row security chief Reggie Wright Jr. was in charge of security for Combs and Biggie Smalls the night the latter was fatally shot.
“So I can’t see that they would look at Capricorn’s affiliation with Death Row that bad and that type of threats,” said Knight. “We just can’t jump to conclusions and throw Puffy under the bus. Like I said, him and I are not friends, but Puffy definitely should walk. What’s right is right, wrong is wrong.”
Combs, who is also the subject of dozens of troubling lawsuits, faces life in prison. The trial is expected to go on until July.
