Ghostface Killah has claimed that Diddy was responsible for getting the Wu-Tang Clan banned from radio in the late 1990s.
Speaking on The Bootleg Kev Podcast, Ghostface recalled touring with Rage Against the Machine in 1997 and publicly criticizing Hot 97 at Summer Jam.
He said: “We left that tour, and it was messed up because we had to make a decision. Like, come back to your people over here, or stay over here and get big with these guys… We left.”
Tony Starks continued: “When we left and did the Hot 97… Shit was a disaster. They cut our records off that day, they didn’t play no Wu shit no more. That’s when Puffy was really getting on his shit, know what I mean? It just wasn’t the same no more. I cursed them n-gga’s out.”
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