Stephen A's Take: Diddy in jail! Freak Off partiers are worried.

Published Sep 18, 2024, 4:00 PM

Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown. 

Stephen A. reacts to the federal indictment against Bad Boy Entertainment mogul, Sean “Diddy” Combs.   Details the music mogul’s Hollywood impact and allegations of disturbing past behavior.

 

Welcome back to Stephen ex Smith Show. Right here over the digital airways of YouTube. As we are taping this show, we are monitoring Sean P. Did Combs in court. He has pled not guilty, and the prosecutor is arguing that he should be held in jail. He should not be released on bail because he's reached out to witnesses and victims, and some witnesses say they are scared of him. This is according to the prosecutor. They're saying that he's reached out to some victims. The assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson is the one making this argument to the judge. She says that he's reached out to some victims. After Dawn Richard, a former member of a music group Combs started, filed her lawsuit on September tenth, Combs reached out to another member of the band of publicly denied the allegations.

Three days later.

Johnson said, Combs called and text that other women fifty eight times in four days.

Stuff like that.

Reading for the report from CNN dot Com and Kevin Frasier, you heard him allude to it just a few minutes ago that what else is going to come out of all of this because you know names are going to be dropped and what have you. I'm not attaching any names to this. All I'm doing is reading the news, ladies and gentlemen at this particular point and giving you my thoughts.

Based off of the news.

This is the kind of stuff that I was alluding to when I said we need Hollywood's in trouble, hip hop, R and B, the music industry. I'm not talking about actors and actresses. I'm talking about Hollywood in terms of the music industry. This is in a world of trouble right now because you don't know whose name is attached to P Diddy, and you don't know where the dominoes are going to fall. You see, when R Kelly, with his pedophile ass self, you know, was being pursued by law enforcement, by prosecutors and what have you.

It was just him. It was just him.

There might have been some people who knew or thought or heard or whatever the case may be, but they wanted him. Okay, they wanted him. When you look at P Diddy, it almost seems clear it's not just him. Thereafter these are reco chargers. It's an indictments. Homeland Security homes raided in Los Angeles and Miami. Computers and laptops and iPads and phones and surveillance videos and stuff like that confiscated. They did that in May, you're talking about months later, and here they come with this indictment and they're trying to make it so today today, as we're taping this show, if prosecutors have their brothers, they're trying to make today his last day of freedom in his life.

That's what they're trying to do. They want him.

Behind boss today, not next week, not next month, not where the trial begins and he's found guilty by a jury of his peers. In their eyes, no no, no, no no, they want him in jail now. This is the level of urgency they're attaching to this. And then Laura behold on this day when P. Diddy is walking into a courtroom in New York to plead not guilty on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Hip Hop music industry vet Kevin Lyles is resigning from his Warner Music.

Group executive VP.

Gig I am reading from a story right here online on TMZ. On Tuesday, Lyles sent a company memo announcing his resignation as chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers three hundred Electric Entertainment chairman, passing the torch to some seasoned vets. The next paragraph, Ladies and gentlemen, here's what it says. Lyles has been with Warner since two thousand and four, which formerly housed did He's Bad Boy Records, and he's been vocal defending the mounds of allegations against Puffy. That's what it said. So that's not me talking. Every time I've met Kevin law has been incredibly nice to me. I don't know anything about any.

Of this stuff.

But I do know is that they're attaching his name to p Diddy, and they're doing so on the day that he resigned, and they're showing you the connection between him and Bad Boy Entertainment. You know why they're doing that, because it's a glimpse of what's coming. There's a whole bunch of names, y'all guess it. I ain't gonna put out no polls. I'm not gonna put a poll out there and ask you and give your names and multiple choice. I'm not doing that to other human beings. The only reason I read Kevin Lawle's name is because of the TMC report that's plastered all over the news right now. The only reason I read the name. I'm not mentioned in anybody's name. But what they're saying is that's the first domino. That's what they're saying. That's the implication, that's what going on.

Think about the parties at his home. Think about the artist.

Puffy P Diddy, Sean P Diddy Cones, Shawan Diddy Combes. Think about the artists he's represented, who's worked under this label, going do your homework.

Think about the people he's an ordinate amount of.

People he's been seen with at these parties and beyond, and it's Kevin Fraser highlighted. Think about Jeffrey Epstein. Think about sug Knight. Think about what happened with Epstein. Think about how sug Knight deferred to the Jeffrey Epstein situation when describing the potentiality of what could eventually.

Happen to showing Diddy cones. This is bad. This is very, very bad.

All we can do is keep our eyes open, watch the case unfold, and remember as he's being as the prosecutors are pursuing this case against him, pushed forward by Homeland Security of all, folks, we're gonna hear more and more and more details. I just finished watching a couple of news channels, a couple, not just one.

You know what they said. They brought up the video.

Of him throwing cassa Ventura to the ground his axe and kicking her and throwing the vase at her, and they said, that's just one tape.

You know, they have more. That's what the news nation, the news networks are saying. They also brought up.

Reporters who cover or have covered the music industry and how they're saying.

He's been accused of being.

Violent, not just with the ladies, but having people beat up. And then they said allegedly having people killed. This is what they said in the news networks, Fox Newsy and ANEM said, we see all of that. That's what they said. What people were saying. Kevin Fraser alluded to it. They're saying it, and prosecutors are pursuing a case against them because of it. This is where it begins, this is not where it ends. We all need to keep our eyes open with regard to the fallout from all of this, not just who falls, but for what reason.

And how is the preponderance of evidence gathered against them.

Was it because of videos confiscated about homeland security at his homes that they raided in Los Angeles and Miami, Or will it get to the point.

Where did he says, stuff himself to protect himself.

His life, and Lord knows of whom else is. Lord, it's bad, y'all, It's bad.