Mark Curry believes Sean “Diddy” Combs may have secured “political favors” by keeping the identities of people featured on his infamous “freak-off” tapes under wraps.
The former Bad Boy artist shared his thoughts on the Let’s Be Clear podcast while discussing the tapes and the influence he thinks they carry. “I believe there’s a lot of political power, a lot of strings, that can be pulled just by those tapes — because the people on them were really high-end people,” Curry said, pointing to around the 32-minute mark of the episode.
He then painted a hypothetical picture, suggesting that if someone like the Director of the NFL appeared on one of the tapes, Diddy could have leveraged that information to control NFL halftime shows for an entire decade.
“I need these political favors,” Curry added, before mimicking Diddy in a hypothetical conversation with someone in the U.S. government. “You gotta put that together, because what do I need to do to make these tapes go away? And that’s what they did. They made the tapes go away.”
“We still haven’t seen them,” Curry continued. “We’ll probably never see them.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Curry spoke about the level of influence he believes Diddy had at the height of his power. “He could bring television to life and put it in front of himself,” he said.
Curry has previously addressed Diddy in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning documentary, executive produced by 50 Cent. In the film, he reflected on his time as a Bad Boy artist and alleged manipulation by Combs.
During an interview with WIS TV last month, Curry explained how meeting Diddy ultimately had a negative impact on his life. “When I met Puff I was like, ‘Wow, this is gonna make my dream happen’ … And it wasn’t easy,” he said. “I thought that meeting him was gonna be a blessing. It was actually a curse.”
“When I lost my parents… they were both alive when I knew Puff,” Curry added later. “My father used to tell me, don’t trust him… And I lost my father and I believed in him [Combs] still.”
