Ghostface Killah claims Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs blocked Wu-Tang Clan from the radio
Ghostface Killah has alleged that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs got Wu-Tang Clan blocked from radio play in New York. The Staten Island rapper claimed the Bad Boy boss was involved in the group being shunned from the airwaves around the release of Wu-Tang Forever.
Ahead of Supreme Clientele 2 dropping on August 22nd, Toney Starks opened up about leaving Rage Against the Machine’s 1997 tour and Combs’ alleged involvement in getting them blacklisted.
“We left that tour, and it was messed up because we had to make a decision,” he told The Bootleg Kev Podcast. “Like, come back to your people over here, or stay over here and get big with these guys. We left.”
Ghostface famously chanted “fuck Hot 97” during Wu’s Summer Jam performance. “When we left and did the Hot 97 [show], shit was a disaster,” he said. “They cut our records off that day, they didn’t play no Wu shit no more. That’s when Puffy was really getting on his shit, know what I mean? It just wasn’t the same no more. I cursed them n*ggas out.”
He went on to reveal that RZA told him the alleged information about Combs, claiming he had the power to do whatever he wanted to rival artists.
“RZA told me this like maybe a year ago, and said like, ‘Yo, Puff admitted to saying that he stopped our records up there,'” he recalled. “So it was all Bad Boy. We dropped ‘Triumph,’ no radio play with that shit. So it came out that he told the truth, like, ‘Yo, I had to do it.’ He had the power.
“I don’t know what he paid ’em, but he had the power. Listen, we was a threat. We was coming, if ‘Triumph’ was promoted like it was supposed to be and we would have stayed on that radio right there, I think things right now would have been a little bit different.”