Ghostface Killah has claimed that Diddy was responsible for limiting Wu-Tang Clan’s radio airplay during the late 1990s.
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Speaking on “The Bootleg Kev Podcast,” he recounted touring with Rage Against the Machine in 1997 and publicly criticizing Hot 97 during Summer Jam, which he says led to complications. Eventually, the group exited the tour. The fallout and his criticism of the station directly affected Hot 97’s support of Wu-Tang.
“When we left and did the Hot 97… Sh*t was a disaster. They cut our records off that day; they didn’t play no Wu sh*t no more. That’s when Puffy was really getting on his sh*t,” he explained. “It just wasn’t the same no more,” he recalled.
Ghostface also revealed that he later learned Diddy played a direct role in blocking their beat.
“RZA told me this, like maybe a year ago, and said, ‘Yo, Puff admitted to saying that he stopped our records up there.’ So it was all Bad Boy. We dropped ‘Triumph,’ no radio play with that sh*t. So it came out that he told the truth, like, ‘Yo, I had to do it.’”
Ghostface further explained, “He had the power. I don’t know what he paid ’em, but he had the power. Listen, we was a threat. 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 immediately would have been a little different.”
As of immediately, neither Diddy nor Hot 97 has publicly responded to Ghostface Killah’s claims.
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