Ghostface Killah claims Sean "Diddy" Combs was the main reason why Wu-Tang Clan was blocked from getting radio play in their hometown.
In an interview Bootleg Kev posted on Sunday, August 17, Tony Starks recalled the time when the Staten Island-based rap collective toured with Rage Against The Machine in 1997. The unlocked memory led to a conversation about Wu-Tang's experience with the Bad Boy Records founder. Ghost said RZA told him that Diddy allegedly blocked the group from being played on the radio in New York City.
“RZA told me this like maybe a year ago, and said like, ‘Yo, Puff admitted to saying that he stopped our records up there,'" Ghost explained.
"So it was all Bad Boy," he continued. "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."
At the time, Diddy had just released his debut studio album No Way Out. With hits like "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down," "I'll Be Missing You," and "It's All About the Benjamins" in heavy rotation, Diddy apparently had enough power to keep other artists off the air, even iconic MC's like Wu-Tang.
"Listen, we was a threat," Ghost said. "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 to right now would have been a little bit different.”
Diddy has yet to react to the allegations. He's got a lot of bigger issues to focus on, like his upcoming sentencing hearing. The veteran artist is set to be sentenced after he was convicted on two counts of Mann Act violations in New York. He's currently awaiting his hearing in jail after he was denied bail twice.
Watch Bootleg Kev's interview with Ghostface Killah below.