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Suge Knight: I’m trying to say is this, I respect your show, I respect what you’re doing, but most important thing is there’s got to be a solution, because this has been going on in the industry for a whole bunch of years, for decades, and at the same time, you know, nobody wants it to be true, and it shouldn’t have to be true. But if we don’t fix it and do something about it, history will constantly repeat itself.
Chris Cuomo: Now, Suge, you said something early on that I want to get clarification for the audience, Suge.
You said early on, “You can’t just look at Diddy in isolation.” You said “This was done to him.” He learned from others, and it was done to him, and then he did to others.
To me, that sounds like what I hear when people are talking about abusive situations, you know, “Hurt people hurt people”, that someone was sexually abused, they wind up being a perpetrator. Is that what you’re suggesting about Sean Combs, that he was sexually abused, and he, now sexually abuses people?
Suge Knight: Yeah, I think that’s absolutely right. I think he repeats what was done to him, and like I said, if you look at Russell Simmons, you know the truth. Angelo Raio [?], you know the truth. Clive Davis, you know the truth. Jimmy Iovine, you know the truth.
It was at a point where it’s like a whole sex trade, because you take Nicole from the Pussycat Dolls, she used to push the lines of people to participate.
She was messing with Jimmy Iovine, when Jimmy Iovine was married to one of the most incredible women in the world, named Vicky, and she used to go around and sing that song and change the lyrics to make it put Vicky down! So there’s not certain things that all of a sudden you got this.
The industry is a crook’s business, it’s been like that for a long time. And the casting couch is real, but it’s for women and men. But far from all that, I think the most important thing is to, I feel like they should let Puffy tell his truth.
I’m quite sure he’s going to expose a lot of people, I’m sure he’s going to move forward with it. But I don’t think it should be a situation like the Epstein thing where they found him hanging from the ceiling to death, before the truth comes out.
Chris Cuomo: Do you believe that Diddy is in danger in prison, and do you have advice for him based on what you just said?
Suge Knight: Well, the first advice I have, I don’t never want to say he’s in danger, and neither should he say that.
Because once he gets to the point where they feel he’s going to be suicidal to himself, or harmful to himself, what they put him on suicide watch, you have a right to nothing. No socks, no drawers, no t-shirt, no blanket, no sheets. You’re absolutely naked in a cell as a crazy man for it.
Prison and jail is a negative environment. If somebody can do something to him and get a name for themselves, they’re going to actually do it. They can do whatever they feel they’ve got to do to prove themselves.
But we’ve also got to learn. We’ve got to learn from our mistakes. Anything don’t have to be a mistake. You’ve got to better yourself.
But we all know what we signed up for, in life. So if I signed up to be a football player, I knew I’m going to get hit, and I’m going to hurt some motherfuckers too.
So, I signed up to be in the music business and the entertainment business. If you fight for rights and being a Black man, there’s certain things you’ve got to look at for the challenges. If they can’t take the money from you, they take you from the money by putting you in prison. That’s a fact!
In Puffy’s situation, he should go and get his time out the way. Not no life sentence. If he can get a little extra time, he should jump on it, because he had a great run. I’m in prison right now. I had a great run.
So I don’t go mad. I don’t wake up mad. I’ve been locked up for 10 years, and I ain’t had a bad day, yet!
And there’s a lot of things we can do to help each other. It’s never too late for help. God bless us to have a voice!
Let’s use our voice. I had told Puffy a while back. I told T.D. Jakes, a while back, “Kids, come on, collect calls. We can politic!”
Because one thing is certain, one thing is sure, he’s just not going to walk away with one scratch on him. It’s not going to happen like that. He can do so much.
Chris Cuomo: Do you think Diddy knows enough that it’s a very delicate balance, that maybe investigators will want to know these other names and greatly reduce his exposure to criminality to time versus what people would do to keep him quiet?
Suge Knight: Number one, I’ve been knowing him a long time. And we were friends. We’re not enemies, but we were friends. He’s not a dummy. So he’s smart enough to work his magic.
On top of that, this man right here, he’s been involved with the FBI for most of his career!
He’s got powerful people. One of his partners, who started his company with drug money, President Obama, got him out of prison. So it’s not like he don’t have no moves.
I don’t think nobody should be counting him out. I don’t think he’s going to lay down and just crawl in the corner and die. He’s probably going through a lot of shit, right now because he’s probably going through a lot of withdrawals from the drugs. But the industry got him on drugs.
One of the worst mistakes I could have made, as far as protecting my artist is doing a deal at Interscope. When my artists used to pull up in valet, the Murdoch building, they’d get out, they’d smell like weed. They totally a smelled like weed. When they made it in the office, it would smell like weed. Those guys were my artists.
They’d induced cocaine to my artists. So once they got on cocaine, once they got on drugs, what they got on alcohol, and that’s when the weird stuff happened. And I think that’s what took Puffy down that lane.
Remember Clive Davis, Russell Simmons, André Harrell. Better believe it. Alcohol, drugs.
He compromised his manhood. Because he was taught that. He got ushered as a kid.
They never recorded no songs, but alcohol, drugs. Sex. Justin Bieber.
And see, they do these things to take control. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. If you choose to be gay, that’s your preference. But they’re doing this to people for control. It’s a power situation. And they’ve been having the power of the sex.
Chris Cuomo: I appreciate your perspective.
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