Shyne Recalls Diddy Offering Him $50K After His 10-Year Prison Bid: ‘You Can’t Be Serious’

Rapper-turned-politician Shyne is on a media blitz promoting his Hulu documentary The Honorable Shyne. He sat down with The Breakfast Club and spoke on the time his former boss Diddy attempted to make things right by giving Shyne money back in 2012.

“There wasn’t an instant forgiveness. I got out in 2009,” Shyne said. “There wasn’t an attempt at reconciliation until 2012, when I went to Paris to meet him. That was the first attempt of forgiveness, but I was still in a place of, ‘He owe me. He owes me his life.’ He’s a billionaire. If it wasn’t for me, he wouldn’t have been a billionaire. If I would have cooperated with the district attorney, he’d have went to jail, and heaven knows what would have happened to his career. So that’s worth at least a couple million dollars out of the billion that you’re worth.”

Diddy did offer to compensate him monetarily — but to Shyne’s surprise and disappointment, it wasn’t enough. “He probably gave me, like, 50 racks, and I’m like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ That’s 10 years? Fifty racks?”

Shyne also revealed that Diddy tried to pay him a visit early on when he was sitting in Rikers before he was transferred to Clifton Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. “He came to see me once, and I think I tried to spit in his face in Rikers Island.” he recalled. “I didn’t even want him to come see me. I didn’t even know he was coming to see me. They just brought me down in the lawyer’s office.”

The Belizean politician recently appeared on The Stephen A. Smith Show and put rumors that he was offered money to take the fall to bed, telling Smith, “People say, ‘Oh, Diddy gave me millions to go to jail.’ Nothing! Probably made two what I thought were offensive contributions over the last 20-something years, which led to a breakdown in the relations. But I moved on.”

You can watch the full conversation below.