Suge Knight is putting his feud with Sean 'Diddy' Combs aside amid the music mogul's legal woes.
While the former Death Row music executive is currently in prison, he expressed sympathy for Puffy in a new interview with TMZ.
"My first reaction, it's not the reaction I thought I would have when it came to Puffy. You know what I mean? I thought it would be a reaction like, 'He got what he got coming because everybody knows what's been going on. My reaction was actually different," he shared.
Knight called the revelation a "sad day for hip-hop" overall, commenting that it makes the culture at large look bad. While many expected him to rejoice overall the serious accusations that Diddy is facing, he instead called for others to think of Combs' five children as they must come to terms with their father's potential wrongdoings.
"I felt like, damn, the first thing that came to my mind was, you know, he has his sons, he has his daughters. My first reaction was about the kids," he continued. "The thing is, I feel it's a bad day for hip-hop, it's a bad day for the culture because it makes us all look bad."
Their feud began in the '90s during the infamous East Coast vs. West Coast rap beef. Knight's Death Row Records label led the charge against Diddy's label, Bad Boy Records. Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence for his involvement in the murder of Terry Carter. He resides at San Diego's Ronald J. Donovan Correctional Facility after being charged with voluntary manslaughter.
As Diddy may find himself in a similar facility soon, Knight encourages others to lay off while he faces the legal troubles. He admits that he is not preying on the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper's downfall, while also maintaining that it is still a tragedy for the victims.
"I'm not the type of guy to cheer for people's downfall and if somebody gets killed, if something happened to them, I'm not gonna pop champagne bottles. If I have a problem with Puffy, that's for him and I to sit down in a room and resolve it. So for the tragedy on both sides, the victims, to him, that's definitely not nothing to cheer about."
While Knight seems to be letting his feud with Diddy breathe, he is, in fact, ripping back into Snoop Dogg, blaming him for the "downfall and exit" of Tupac Shakur. The 59-year-old addressed the current tension between the late rapper's estate and Drake, after the "God's Plan" artist used AI-generated vocals for a new diss track against Kendrick Lamar.
The music executive seemed offended that Snoop Dogg's vocals would appear alongside Shakur's in a diss track aimed at Lamar.
"Then putting him on a song with Snoop, who was a part of his downfall and exit, ain't ever a good look," Knight said in a podcast, according to Enstarz. "Pac was a king on that chessboard. He never was a pawn, so he can't make him be a pawn now."
Knight will continue to speak out in TMZ's The Downfall of Diddy documentary special, which is now streaming on Tubi.
