“They’re Calling Him The DIDDLER!” DJ Vlad Discusses Diddy Allegations

He's rap royalty, what's up in New York and the king of a seemingly bulletproof billion-dollar empire, Sha Diddy Coons face losing everything in series of lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct , police this week arrested two of his properties as part of a federal sex investigation. The rapper's lawyers called it an ambush and a crude use of force on a military level. He now still says that he will fight the pro, the innocent of him, but many speculate that he is the thin end of a large wedge, even foreshadowing a me too moment for rra. he's a misogynist in some ways he's selfish he's a very selfish individual he wants to highlight it it's very much an opportunity it's something I find hard to believe if he surrounded himself with young people who basically go out and do whatever uh he asked them to get into abusive relationships both ways, but of course when you're a man you're always seen as the villain, even if a woman attacks you first,

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didn't need to come with guns remember, even though he may be. a billionaire, he too deserves a presumption of innocence, faces very serious accusations.

We're joining me now to discuss all this DJ and digital media mogul DJ Vlad and Mark Curry, the former bad boy recording artist who works closely with sha Diddy Kum, so welcome. For you two, DJ Vlad, a lot of people have been wondering for a while since the me2 uh scandal first broke with Harvey Weinstein and engulfed several industries. Why did rap and hip hop escape unscathed? Do you think what's happening now with Diddy is indicative of a moment of radical change for hip hop rap, well, I don't think hip-hop has emerged unscathed. I mean, R Kelly is essentially hip-hop, I mean, even though he sings, it overlaps with hip-hop, so this has been happening in hip-hop for a while, you're seeing it happen with Russell Simmons, so Yeah, hip-hop hasn't been free and clear about this, something everyone has had to deal with, what do you think of what's happening with didd?

He, I mean, it's hard to say that he hasn't been accused of anything. I mean, he looks bad. I mean, social media is having a bad day,

calling

him the scammer and saying no, Diddy, every time

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say something questionable, but. At the end of the day, it's not really up to social media or the public, it's really up to the authorities and unlike an R, Kelly Puffy has hundreds of millions of dollars and will be able to get the absolute best defense and ultimately you already know. we'll see what happens in the courtroom Mark Curry, you worked at Bad Boy Records, you know Diddy, well you worked with him for him, are you surprised by the Revelations about FBI Involvement?

For me, it took me by surprise because, um, it's almost like Karma is almost like what he's been doing a lot of people accuse him of putting him through in life, it's actually his time to, honestly, have to go through the same things, so during those tribulations what we had to learn was just stay and fight and just do what you have to do and so, if he has the fight in him like he says you go, then you know we're going to say he's guilty until to prove his guilt. I mean, he's innocent until proven guilty and we'll let the justice system do what it has to do because it's the people on the ground that are paid to investigate these things, so it was a shock. , but it's a shock, it's something I find hard to believe.

What was he like when you worked with him? You know he is us, the highway. You know he is very controlling. He is an Aon-headed person. You know he's great to work with, but don't believe it. You know, working with him and being famous with him and not having everything to do along with the show is ideal, so, he's selfish, he's a very selfish individual, he wants to make it stand out, he wants to be a rapper, so really. he's a rapper and not a business he wants B bad boy he's a business he's a label so he's a rapper on the label so it's not just a label he's a rapper so he's Russell Simmons he's not a rapper or you don't do it um um So you know, it's one of those types of situations.

You know, in your experience, he was misogynistic in some ways? And before you let me ask you this, can we break that word down quickly once, so I want everyone to understand? what is that word? you ask a question, a massin, is he misogynistic? Yeah, okay, explain that word to me please, well, misogyny is when a man would instinctively be inherently hateful toward a woman because she's a woman, and a lot of people feel very uh, rap music lyrics and rappers to the over the years they've been blatantly misogynistic because actually a lot of their fans like them to be uh yeah you know when you can say something like that, um, when you think about being famous and then you think about a woman sometimes you can get the same energy you get from being famous just for having her sexual organs, so yes, you have men competing with women for their souls, so yes, entering a woman's soul is definitely an achievement for Many people say: " Hey, women like me, I'm famous and handsome, whatever, and then you can enjoy those things with women, so yeah, it's something that comes with being a man, I guess, and chasing women, but I guess." My point about Diddy was based on your experience: did she treat women with respect or disrespect?

Nobody really gets respect. It's hard to get respect from someone who is at that level. The level he is at is getting respect. who calls you you have to earn respect, so to get that respect you have to quit and you have to earn that respect he doesn't respect women or many men or producers um Friends, it can be said by the way that all the who are around him and what's going on in their lives, you have all the artists who have been in prison and a lot of artists who are dead, so it's like what has he done to help those. people's families and then when you look at that, that's what I would call respect DJ Vlad DJ Vlad I want to talk about kind of the bigger picture here, you know, sha kums is one of the most successful musical artists in the business of music.

Have I ever seen him, I mean, he's a multi-millionaire, from a variety of different backgrounds, coming from his music, he's, you know, a lot of people think he's a genius when it comes to making music and the music business. um, and we. He lives in an era where, because of social media, it's very difficult when you find yourself in the eye of a storm like this, it's very difficult for him, a man who we just heard so convincingly from Mark Curry, He likes to be in control. Suddenly you feel like you're losing control and it's quite difficult to control any narrative and it's quite difficult to keep that narrative fair.

You know we all want to believe in innocence until proven guilty, but it's almost impossible, isn't it with social media? Yes. I mean, absolutely, you're going to be judged one way or another, but then again, there's always a new cycle of everything if you look back at the past year. Kanye was canceled by everyone, he had lost a billion dollar deal with Adidas. uh every major corporation from Universal to even the hardware company that he was working with to release his music let him uh and now look, he has a number one song in the country, right?

I mean, that's undeniable, the number one song in the country is Kanye West. featuring Tai Dollar Sign Carnival and that was published independently so it just goes to show that people have short memories and if you publish something that people enjoy, they will forget it, forgive it and just enjoy the art they like. For example, Travis Scott, you know when the whole concert happened, you know, and the kids died, his album was put on hold. Nike delayed a shoe, everything else like that. A year later, he released his album once again, it was number one, great concert, great merch. uh everything else like that people have short memories so it's really going to be what happens ultimately and the only way he could really get canceled is if they put him in jail like R Kelly Mark where do you rank Shan P only in Talent?

He ranks Purely on Talent. I think he's probably around a six on a scale of one to 10. He's not talented because he's not a great Creator. You know, he's a great spokesperson or a person who's just in the shoes of something, but he's not great when it comes to talent and you know, I wanted to reiterate one thing that you just talked about and we're talking about this system that It's called a black ball system where what happens is if you don't agree with someone like Puff he faces a big system that he won't like, for example when I first published a book in 2009 it was very difficult for me to get an interview on my own radio stations here in Atlanta because they were saying that he was spending so much money on marketing promoting Sarak and his liquor and his brands, so they thought it would be um, we, we, it would be a conflict of interest, so which there are a lot of people who are in positions like vad vad I.

I'm glad to be on this platform with you today, but I've always been waiting for you to reach out to me and say, Mark. Let's do an interview. I did one with Sean pres, but I was waiting for you and that kind of thing. things that we implement that prevent us from spreading this information, we have to know how not to do it, so a lot of the things that I see in that system I see within you and in me as well or in you and in other platforms as well and that is something that we need to change, we should also stay out of it during these times, we are not going to hold them responsible or declare guilty or say guilty until proven otherwise and I think social media has a very powerful role in the outcome of the situation and if the situation goes wrong and it's because of social media, then how do we address that?

Because we shouldn't let it fall just because of what we think, well, yeah, that's just no, no, I think. that's an opinion that a lot of people share it's an ongoing problem we see it over and over again Mark Curry thank you very much for joining us now we'll be joined by someone who could answer some of the more legal questions mark gagos will be joining us in a moment and it's just a reaction to what Mark was saying there, he goes back to being innocent until proven guilty, it being so difficult in the modern era we are in, if you were advising sha kums, what would you advise him? what he's doing right now, I think the best thing he can do is stay quiet and let the lawyers do their job.

I think trying to intervene and defend yourself in any way usually backfires, so let the lawyers do their job. He has the budget for the best lawyers in the country and they are going to fight vehemently on his behalf, so ultimately, if he stays quiet and lets things happen, the uproar will begin to calm down. I remember the uproar over the whole Cassie lawsuit when it was settled immediately, it was crazy, but then over time people started to forget a little bit and then this happened again. But ultimately GNA will depend on him, he will still be rich, he still has a huge catalog. um I don't actually agree with Mark Curry, I think Puffy is extremely talented to be able to take someone so big who is just an underground rapper, overweight and has a lazy eye and turn him into a superstar and be able to do this with artist after artist decade after decade, that's great talent, like Quincy Jones.

Quincy may not have played all the instruments on Michael Jackson's Thriller, but he looks at what he helped put together well, so yeah, that's my disagreement with Mark, well, I agree. with you and I actually met Diddy several times. I must say that he was always extremely polite and respectful when I met him and I was quite surprised at how critical Mark Curry was of him as a person, basically implying that he is disrespectful to everyone. He is a control freak. Etc. I mean he painted a pretty critical picture. Let me bring in Mark Gagos, who is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Hollywood.

Mark, it's great to see you again. Where we are? In this case the FBI now made a move on Sha Diddy Kums, how important is it, why do you think they have chosen now? Well, I think they are using, so to speak, civil lawsuits and when I say that I mean the Department. of Justice and specifically the Southern District of New York, are using them as a kind of road map and, frankly, this was a very bold move on their part and a very fast move, usually with the feds, they move at a fast pace. glacial.

It's been going at breakneck speed and I think this is sending a message to potential witnesses that they better cooperate now or it's going to get dangerous. I believe there are several people who are being targeted and that is the way the feds operate, so this is a serious matter and for those who have not been following the details of your case, what are we talking about here? What is the crux of the case against him and what is the potential danger to Diddy in this reverse engineered well? I have the Department of Homeland Security as apparently the lead agency here, if that's the case, then the

allegations

that are in the civil lawsuits that talk about trafficking and things of that nature probablyare front and center and I say that because it seems to me at least based on and I'm piecing it together uh based on what I've seen it seems like that's what they're running on the ground to make sure that if that's what's happening, they've done it. explored and at least given the witnesses a chance to respond, it's really a stretch in a sense because I don't think at any point they were going to run away or do anything else, they didn't need to come with weapons, so to speak.

I know there are accusations of weapons and drugs and things like that, but to give you a perfect example, yesterday they reported that someone had been arrested at the airport, he was fleeing in a private jet, everything that came to light, as I understand it, is that he was planning to go on spring break with his daughters and that's why the plane was there and that the gentleman who was arrested and variously described as a mule, so to speak, was nothing more than an alleged personal use, so Before we get overheated, let's try to put it in context and remember that although you may be a billionaire, you also deserve a presumption of innocence, yes, and in fact, just before. you joined us we were talking about the problem of social media and how difficult it is to control stories like this when conspiracy theories run wild, whether it has to do with Diddy now or whether it was the Princess of Wales last week and what was wrong. with her and so on, um, and that brings me to a strange part of your story, uh, Mark, which is Prince Harry's name in the lawsuit, um, because apparently kums is said to be an attracted guest, it's said in his infamous parties through VIP partnerships with celebrities such as famous athletes political figures artists musicians and international dignitaries like British royal Prince Harry uh that has garnered a lot of headline attention uh what is the purpose of including Prince Harry like that ?

Do you think I think it was clearly because they wanted to try to titillate, I mean, look, anyone who knows Sean knows that he's been throwing a white party for as long as I can remember. I actually attended the white party and met several people there, there was nothing strange about the parties themselves, um, it's over now. them in Los Angeles, he's done them in the Hamptons, uh, you know, the part of what's hard to reconcile here is some of these wild and frankly outlandish accusations with what you actually have as evidence or not, and I've been around and in its entirety. disclosure I've represented it on multiple occasions and haven't seen anything to suggest the kind of excitement or the kinds of outlandish accusations I've seen floating around, but pce you make a great point 10 days ago we were seeing some of the most outrageous things about the princess floating around on social media and it turns out they were all completely wrong.

I can't tell you how often I see that with clients and situations I'm involved in, I mean Prince. Harry's front page of some newspapers here in the UK, if you were him, how would you feel being dragged into this in what seems to be such a ridiculous context when you see one of the lawsuits that were filed where they compare one of the Diddy's employees with the Galain Maxwell version, so they're trying to draw that and then if you add Prince Harry, you get reminiscent of Andrew with Epstein, so I understand what's being done, it's very creative. use of the legal process to get attention and to some extent it has worked so far because now you have the fence speeding in his direction DJ Vlad talking about Diddy's Circle, the people around him, he is obviously very rich, very successful. um, what kind of team does he have to form, that you know of? um, I mean, did he always surround himself with young people, uh, who basically go out and do whatever he asks them to do?

I remember when I was at Drink Champs, uh, I recently talked about an incident years and years ago where we were at a club and Diddy was there, as was I, and a guy who was working with Diddy came up to me and told me that Diddy really liked my jacket and asked if he could buy it for me. He said no thanks, but that was the kind of thing he has. People use it now. No, I'm not using it now. I don't have the jacket anymore. I like that jacket so I'm just asking. If available, thank you, yes, thank you, thank you.

I dressed nice, but yeah, no. Diddy offered it to me and he said, hey, you know, Diddy loves the jacket and he's asking if you want to sell it to him right now and I remember it was like winter outside and I was like, "Oh no, thanks man, no, you probably could have gotten a good price at that time, maybe, maybe, but I think just taking off the jacket and selling it to another man at that time seemed a little strange to me, what's your feeling?" about what kind of person he is now, now he made his money, he made his wealth, he made his fame, he made his fortune, has he changed from what you hear?, he's still the same guy, you know it again.

I go back to what Mark Curry was saying. To paint a pretty critical picture of this guy, you know, a control freak, disrespectful, treated everyone more or less as lesser individuals, is your sense of Diddy and it's what you hear about him, well, I don't really know Diddy. I interviewed him 10 years ago when he first launched Revolt, I ran into him here and there, you know, ultimately, people are going to be people. I remember having a conversation with Roger Bonds, who used to be his security guy, and we were talking about all the abuse

allegations

with Cassie and what he said, what he saw personally was that he was in the car with both of them and suddenly Cassie would punch Diddy in the face and then Diddy would jump back and they would start fighting and stuff, so you know I mean he's going to have ruined relationships like the rest of us.

Abusing relationships go both ways, but of course when you're a man, you're always seen as the villain, even if a woman attacks you first, you know? You see, 15 years later, Chris Brown still can't perform at NBA celebrity games because the whole Rihanna story is one of those things. I think in the end he's calmed down a little bit and mellowed out, etc., but I think men are going to be men and people are going to be people and if they're pushed in a certain direction, people are going to react, how they're going to react. to react, well, gagos, you have acted for him, what kind of person are you?

I find him intense and he drives hard, but you can tell that Pierce was actually watching one of the other people you've talked about a little bit. I mean, that goes with the territory. I mean, you know people who are successful and share many common traits. One of the things that you, the picture that is being painted, is not something that I have seen or experienced and have spent hours and hours over the years, depicting. him about various things and I just haven't seen it, I mean, he's almost a caricature too and to your question, uh, the people that he surrounds himself with, I've met them and uh, and I consider a lot of the people that he surrounds himself with, um uh. quality High highest quality uh people I I I I won't mention their names for fear of them falling into the crosshairs, but I can think of two or three off the top of my head who I just think of in the world, so I'm not so I'm sure that the picture being painted has some relation to reality here.

I understand we live in an era where you mentioned Chris Brown and I represented Chris Brown in that incident with Rihanna and Rihanna quickly for those. Who doesn't remember? He actually came to court to support Chris during those proceedings. Was she there in my office? We went to court and you know there's a forgiveness in personal relationships that somehow doesn't seem to extend to other people. In situations in Diddy's case, some of the things I've heard are so exaggerated and have no connection to things I've seen personally that it's hard to reconcile if he gets convicted of these types of sex trafficking crimes and so on, they're obviously very serious, what kind of prison sentence could he be facing?

Look, I'm always hesitant to speculate about things like that. I remember a client once, when my father was alive, he was my partner. and the client asked him how long he could work and he told her and she came running to my office, your dad scares me and you know I don't want to answer honestly, it hasn't been presented, I fully expect based on what I've heard so far that no We are close to any type of presentation, so I am not going to speculate because generally in these types of cases the prosecutor holds all the cards.

I mean, that's one of the I guess beauties and detriments of the criminal justice system at the federal level in the United States is that the prosecutor can pile up charges in such a way that you could be gone for the rest of your life; it's an enormous responsibility that a prosecutor has done it and you always expect them to exercise that responsibility in a way that doesn't overstep the mark, so to speak, he's facing very serious accusations, he's facing incredibly serious accusations, kind of daunting if they come before him. charges if they end up being filed from now on the accusations are those that are contained in a search warrant that is probable cause probable cause I've joked before, I think actually with Pierce many years ago, uh, that it has been transferred to the point where I'm just saying is my client breathing probably so we're not in a situation where someone has published a problematic procedure where witnesses and evidence have been proven so I would tell everyone to take a deep breath. and let's see how it develops?

Yeah well Gagos, brilliant analysis there as always and DJ de Lake, great to have you back on the sensor. Thank you very much, yes, thank you for inviting me.