50 Cent addresses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sexuality: “He wasn’t in the closet, he was in the hallway”
50 Cent has opened up about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sexuality following the recent sexual assault lawsuits against him. Among the dozens of lawsuits he’s facing, the Bad Boy founder has been accused of raping a number of men.
The G-Unit boss has been open about his issues with Combs over the years, citing the time he asked him to go shopping as a red flag.
“I said, ‘Let me get away from him,’ 50 said on the Flagrant podcast. “‘Cause he was like, ‘You hot now, we gotta hang out now. Like, hang out, hang out.’ He said, ‘I’ll take you shopping and I’ll get you flash and you can give me the hood shit.'”
50 claimed that Combs allegedly being gay was never a secret to the people around him. “Certain things, they let it go by because it’s Puff,” he said. “Like, he would say stuff. He wasn’t in the closet, he was in the hallway. Now, you see so much shit that you go away [like], ‘Yo, this was visible guys.'”
He added, “I’ve been the crazy guy for a long time, [like], ‘You’re a hater.’ Now everybody’s complaining, ‘My arse is hurting, y’all.’ All this shit is coming. All I’m saying is, you see it now, all of these complaints.”
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, 50 once claimed Combs’ shopping invite was “weird” and left a strange impression on him.
“He asked to take me shopping,” he said. “I thought that was the weirdest shit in the world because that might be something that a man says to a woman. And I’m just like, ‘Naw, I’m not fucking with this weird energy or weird shit,’ coming off the way he was just moving. From that, I wasn’t comfortable around him.”
During an interview with VladTV earlier this year, Akademiks said he believes Combs will come out as bisexual at some point. This was prior to Combs being arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering.
“I think at some point in this process, Diddy’s gonna come out and say, ‘Hey listen, you know this whole hip-hop industry been bullying me? They’ve speculated for years, everything I’ve done has been has been consensual, the truth is, I’m a bisexual man.'”
Continuing to quote what he believes Combs would say, he said, “‘There’s been a lot of stories and intrigue around my sexual life, but mostly because of how taboo my sexual interests are, which are all legal and all consensual,'” he said. At the time, Akademiks thought that was the only way he could handle the situation.