Again within the ’90s, Demise Row data founder Suge Knight and Unhealthy Boy Data founder Sean “Diddy” Combs have been on reverse sides of the notorious East Coast-West Coast hip-hop feud. However with Diddy now going through severe jail time as his federal intercourse trafficking trial continues, Knight — who himself is presently serving a 28-year jail sentence after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 2018 — determined to provide his one-time rival a little bit of a warning about life in jail, telling him to maintain his head down and never draw an excessive amount of consideration to himself.

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Knight supplied a reasonably nuanced tackle the scenario throughout a cellphone interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo, explaining whereas he and Diddy have traditionally been adversaries, he wasn’t going to have fun the prospect of somebody being despatched to jail, particularly not a Black man. “I am not saying lots of people do not should do their time … however on the similar time, that is not no cheerful factor,” he mentioned. To that finish, Knight expressed sympathy in the direction of Diddy’s children amid the trial.

Relating to Diddy’s alleged crimes, Knight additionally opined that the founding father of Unhealthy Boy was merely a symptom of a a lot bigger drawback within the leisure business as an entire: “He was taught from individuals earlier than him, and he did it to the youthful individuals after him.” Assuming Diddy is convicted and despatched to jail, although, Knight urged he take the time to raised himself, and likewise supplied some recommendation on the right way to deal with himself in case anybody he is in there with will get any violent concepts.

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Throughout his chat with Chris Cuomo, Suge Knight was hesitant to definitively say if longtime rival and former pal Sean “Diddy” Combs could be at risk behind bars. He additionally discouraged Diddy himself from suggesting such a factor, as nicely. Knight’s reasoning was that if Diddy have been to be positioned on suicide watch, the jail would strip him of issues like garments and bedsheets. That being mentioned, Knight did acknowledge that Diddy being focused in jail is a chance.

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“I do not care who you might be, jail and jail is a adverse setting,” Knight mentioned, including, “Anyone can do one thing to him and get a reputation for themselves … however we additionally gotta be taught, we gotta be taught from our errors … you gotta higher your self.” Elsewhere within the interview, Knight additionally urged that Diddy request kosher meals behind bars, as he says they’re higher than the usual jail meals and are available pre-sealed, seemingly implying that this makes them extra tamper-evident.

Certainly one of Knight’s ultimate items of recommendation to Diddy: “He ought to go and get his outing of the best way — not no life sentence. If he can get lesser time, he ought to bounce on it, as a result of he had an awesome run. I am in jail proper now. I had an awesome run. So, I do not [go to sleep] mad, I do not get up mad. … I have been locked up for 10 years, and I ain’t had a nasty day but.”

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