Diddy allegedly threatened to slash J. Cole’s throat over Kendrick Lamar’s “Control.” On Saturday (Sept. 14), Tank and J. Valentine’s R&B Money podcast uploaded a brand new episode that includes Terrence “Punch” Henderson, the president of Top Dawg Entertainment. During the episode, the boys have been gifted a obscure story that includes a slew of heavy hitters for his or her I Ain’t Saying No Names phase.
Punch informed the story of what occurred after Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” verse dropped and how the energy shifted the culture, notably on the 2013 MTV VMAs afterparty in New York City. Henderson caught to the phase’s guidelines and omitted all potential names concerned, however as most savvy followers have discovered, the story’s major gamers concerned Diddy and J. Cole, who was taking over for his pal Lamar.
“The homie just did this song, right? Pissed a gang of people off, everybody was mad at it,” Punch began the story. “When the song came out, he was overseas, then he came back to the States… First place we stopped in was New York City and the first thing we do is say, ‘Let’s go to the club’ because we want to check the temperature, see what everybody was on — L.A. stuff… We get to the club. One of the homies approached us and [was] talking about this particular record. So we’re going back and forth: ‘Oh, it’s not personal. It’s just this, this and that. It’s cool, whatever, whatever.'”
“Another one of the homies walk up, he looked drunk [and] said, ‘Yeah, y’all ni**as need to go back and forth and keep it on wax or whatever.’ So the two dudes who approached [us], they get into a little back and forth, a little argument with each other now. What we didn’t know is they'd received into an argument earlier than we received there.”
Punch then defined how he and his TDE cohorts entered the membership’s VIP part. There, they got here involved with a slew of celebrities referring to the quantity of star energy as “the front row of the Grammys.” He then defined how Diddy continued his vitriol, main to him threatening to slice Cole’s throat.
“The homie that got into it with the other one, he’s sitting two steps down from me on the couch. Then they came back to him, the ones who got into an alteration earlier,” he continued.
“He was like, ‘If you ever say what you said to me earlier, ni**a, I’ll—.’ And he grabbed a bottle from the table and he said, ‘What you gon’ do? Hit me on my head with a bottle?’ He was like, ‘Nah, I’m gonna break it on the table and I’m gonna cut your throat.’ It was getting tense. So the ni**a standing on the ground reached up and tried to grab dude by the neck. So dude reached around and fired on him and they both fell on the table, knocking all the drinks over. It’s a scuffle now, a huge scuffle.”
Punch beforehand shared data relating to the struggle on Math Hoffa’s podcast, My Expert Opinion, however used names. During this telling of the story, he talked about JAY-Z, Diddy, Cole, and Kendrick.
“[JAY-Z] and Puff are doing the dinner that they usually do,” he mentioned. “Puff and Cole were talking about the verse, and they ended up getting into a little back and forth. When we come in, Cole and Kendrick was talking about the verse… Then Puff came back over, and their argument sparked up again. So from there, they ended up getting into the whole scuffle in the club.”
In this model of the story, the TDE president then talked about that Emory Jones, Hov’s shut pal, jumped into the struggle, pondering that certainly one of his artists was combating. Jones then rushed into the scuffle, the place he grabbed Cole, however as he received nearer to the struggle, he was stunned to see it was Jermaine.
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