Bow Wow sure knows how to stir the pot, but his latest remarks might be the worst-timed yet.
The 37-year-old rapper recently came under fire after making tone deaf comments about missing Sean “Diddy” Combs parties amid the controversial music mogul’s recent legal troubles and sexual assault allegations.
“Bruh supposed to be on a 250-foot yacht with his wife, legs up chilling, “the Let Me Hold You rapper said in an October 10th appearance on Rocsi Diaz’s More To The Story podcast.
“It seems unreal at times. Me and Jermaine [Dupri] spoke about, and I was like, ‘I never thought we would see him in this position. Ever,” he continued before calling Diddy the “gatekeeper to the game” and how everything “doesn’t feel right” without him.
“He’s like the gatekeeper to the game. To the point where… BET Awards weekend? The past two, they just didn’t feel right,” referring to the BET Hip Hop Awards last week.
“There was no motion, there was no parties. There was nowhere to go.”
The Like Mike star then clarified that he wasn’t talking about the illegal “freak offs” the federal government accused Diddy of orchestrating (the Bad Boy Records founder had denied all allegations of wrongdoing).
“I said, ‘Jermaine, there’s no parties,’” Bow Wow recalled, as he mimicked being on the phone with his longtime mentor and record producer Jermaine Dupri.
“You feel it, it’s like a hole. He was everything Hip-Hop! For that to die out, you just would have never thought… It’s sad and it’s messed up that we gotta witness this,” he added.
Bow Wow shares his thoughts on Diddy’s legal situation and says he misses Diddy’s parties amid the moguls sex crime allegations.
“I would have never thought that we would see him in this position, he’s like the gatekeeper to the game. BET weekend, like, the last two…just… pic.twitter.com/3M2fKjJlK7
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) October 14, 2024
Well, as you can guess, the internet wasn’t so pleased with his remarks and Bow Wow – born Shad Moss – has been dragged for making such “insensitive” comments.
“Can he read the room?” one user posted on X Sunday.
“Fiending for Diddy Party’s is crazy,” another wrote. “Dude should have just stayed quiet.”
“Soooooo… nobody else but Diddy can host a party? I’m confused,” a third user chimed in.
Another got really personal with Bow Wow and shared this little tid bit: “Get a load of this loser. We booked him at the club, and he couldn’t even give his liquor away to the h*es, they didn’t want it,” they wrote.
“A diddy party may actually be his best bet bc I never seen a celebrity w so such inability to get bi**hes.”
This boy bow wow really said
“life ain’t been fun since the Diddler got locked up”
How embarrassing pic.twitter.com/T3P2kEQbIW
— Elle Murasaki (@itsellemurasaki) October 13, 2024
and
Poor thing got that Stockholm syndrome, cause he been around the diddler since he was like 12 ????
— Ⓑⓛⓐⓒⓚ &⃝ Ⓟⓔⓣⓣⓨ (@black_and_petty) October 14, 2024
and
Sometimes it’s just better to not saying anything at all there, lil bow wow
— StonerDadYYC (@StonerDadYYC) October 14, 2024
and
Diddy’s associates are coming into the light themselves pic.twitter.com/329QdoI0Di
— Taylor ???? (@Themba_Taylor) October 13, 2024
Bow Wow and Diddy have long maintained a public friendship, though industry connections like theirs are hardly rare.
Back in 2018, the two teamed up to pay tribute to Jermaine Dupri at the Global Spin Awards in LA.
Earlier in Bow Wow’s career – 2002, to be specific – Diddy and the Lottery Ticket actor both laced up for MTV’s Rock N Jock NBA All-Star Jam in Philadelphia.
