Gene Deal is spilling more tea about his former boss, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and says that Diddy intentionally made sure Biggie Smalls was not making any real money.
“I asked Big about Tupac. I asked him all those questions,. When I asked him about Pac, when I asked him, ‘why you ain’t give Pac the money or nothing like that, man?’ because Jasmine Guy and Jada Pinkett [Jada Pinkett Smith] was going around, trying to get Pac out of jail…so I asked Big, ‘why you ain’t give him no money?’ And he said, ‘because I ain’t have no money. I was broke,”” Gene said on the So Reckless podcast.
He continued: “I had to sell Puff [Diddy] my publishing. And I knew that because I read the contract when we was coming out to California. Puff gave me the briefcase.”
In the past, Diddy has faced allegations from several of his artists who claimed that they were owed millions of dollars but that Diddy refused to pay up.
He eventually began returning the music publishing rights to his Bad Boy Records artists, including artists like Mase, Faith Evans, The LOX, 112, and the estate of The Notorious B.I.G., in 2021.
At the time, rumors had circulated online that some major trouble was coming the Bad Boy’s way and that he agreed to sign over the publishing only if the artists agreed not to speak negatively about him in the media.