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Former Bad Boy rapper Shyne says Diddy ‘destroyed my life’ over nightclub shooting

Former Bad Boy rapper Shyne says Diddy ‘destroyed my life’ over nightclub shooting

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Former rapper Shyne has described how Sean “Diddy” Combs “destroyed my life” following a New York nightclub shooting in 1999. Shyne, now known as Moses Barrow, signed to Combs’s label Bad Boy Records in 1998. The following year, Combs and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were with Barrow at a Manhattan nightclub called Club New York. Witnesses said there was a heated argument between Combs and another man, Matthew “Scar” Allen. A scuffle broke out, guns were drawn and three bystanders were injured. At the resulting trial, Barrow was convicted of assault and reckless endangerment while Combs was acquitted of all charges. Barrow spent nine years in maximum security prison. In a new interview with Channel 5 News in his home country of Belize, where he is now a politician and Leader of the Opposition, Barrow said of Combs: “When I …