Judge Greg Mathis emphatically dismissed Diddy’s image as the leader of a crime syndicate, saying that Diddy was never a “real gangsta.”
Mathis knows about criminality, not only from the cast of characters who come onto his iconic show, “Judge Mathis,” but also from his own background as a wayward teen in Detroit who spent time in jail before transforming his life.
Having once been a street thug, Mathis said he knows what a boss looks like.
Mathis spits his truth about what he believes Sean “Diddy” Combs really is on the latest edition of his podcast, “The Mathis Verdict.” He also believes that the U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors are trying to portray him as a monster, which Mathis does not believe he is.
The TV judge said prosecutors are presenting an image that “He’s much worse than a toxic person; he’s a monster from what they’ve been showing and what we’ve been hearing. He’s a state crime monster,” Judge Mathis began.
Mathis has a different outlook. He believes he is only feared because of his famous hair-trigger temper.
In reality, Judge Mathis believes Diddy lived off the reputation of his parents who were real gangsters.
“But street guys don’t fear him, because they know he’s never been in the street. He was a kid, went to Catholic school, then he was bullied, then tried to join up with some lil’ gang in New York, I think Harlem, that wasn’t even engaging in crime,” Mathis said.
“[His] father, who was killed, was a big gangster in New York. And from my understanding, his mother wasn’t nothing to play with. So there was a sense of fear in New York — one in particular that was close to his dad and [that] everybody feared — everybody feared in the nation.”
Ultimately, leveraging the reputation of his father, Mathis believes that Diddy “felt such liberty on being the tough guy.”
Mathis continues, saying, “When you fully start embodying that, with more time, you become that person. Just like a person who tells a lie so many times, they start believing that lie. And so, I no doubt believe that he believes that he is a gangster.”
Diddy’s trial continued with more explosive revelations as the security guard from the Intercontinental Hotel, Eddy Garcia, testified. He explained to prosecutors and the jury how Diddy allegedly paid him and some coworkers to hand over the Cassie beatdown video.
