Freddie Gibbs Reflects On Diddy’s Connection To 2Pac In New Song

Freddie Gibbs once saw Diddy and 2Pac as some of his heroes, but now he’s confronting the complex connection between the men in a newly released song. Halloween saw the release of Gibbs’ latest album, You Only Die 1nce, and was the first project from the rapper in over two years.

The Indiana emcee is known to express his opinion on the state of Hip-Hop, so it should come as no surprise that he spoke about Diddy’s downfall on the new record. “On The Set,” the fan-favorite from the LP, explores his idolization of Sean Combs with a couple of bars calling his ties to Pac into question.

A Harley Astorga-directed music video drives the point home, with scenes showing Gangsta Gibbs reading through the latest news about Combs. The verse then evolves into a tribute to fallen Black musicians, with Freddie eulogizing figures like Nipsey Hussle, Rich Homie Quan, Frankie Beverly, and more.  

“Goddamn, they done got Diddy/ I used to look up to that n***a even when that ni**a Pac dissed him/ I wonder if he paid off Pac killers/ I wish them, I wish them n***as in L.A. ain’t never pop Biggie,” he raps.

“Goddamn, they done got Diddy/ Yeah, I wish they never shot up Pac and Biggie/ I was gon’ retire from rap when I seen that sh*t with Nipsey/ Crazy when that sh*t hit your peers, that sh*t be hittin’ different/ Yeah, shit be stressin’ me incredibly/ Yeah, no more summers with Frankie Beverly/ Gotta praise the gods while you walkin’ with ’em/ Spanto passed right after Fathers Day, I was talkin’ with him, man, what the f**k?/ When I die, put me on the chain, ice your neck out/ Rest in peace to Young Dolph; he was too young to check out.”

Watch the video above.

Meanwhile, Diddy can’t seem to escape the decades-long assumption that he somehow had something to do with Pac’s death. Shakur’s brother, Mopreme, spoke to Piers Morgan in October about Sean Combs and a 2008 Los Angeles Times story claiming that the mogul was directly involved in Pac’s murder.

After Combs sent a statement to the publication stating that he nor Biggie had anything to do with Shakur’s death, the publication took down the story. Mopreme asserted that he believed Combs’ statement was false, telling Morgan, “My opinion is that I don’t believe it was a hundred percent honest statement… It’s kind of looking that way, in my opinion.”

“He called me and I had Thug Life guys with me and we heard what he had to say. He basically said he ain’t have nothing to do with my brother’s murder,” he continued. “I told him the truth has still yet to come out so we’re gonna see. Here we are, 28 years later, it looks like there’s some doubt in that statement.”

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