Shyne Reasserts He Was ‘Set Up to Be the Fall Guy’ in Diddy Nightclub Shooting
In the first trailer for Hulu’s upcoming documentary The Honorable Shyne, the rapper-turned-politician Shyne has once again claimed that he took the fall for Diddy in the 1999 nightclub shooting he served ten years in prison for.
The former Bad Boy Records signee is the subject of the upcoming documentary, which sheds light on his upbringing in Brooklyn, his incarceration, and his post-prison political career as the leader of the Belize United Democratic Party. The trailer offers a preview of what to expect, with a big focus on the 1999 Manhattan nightclub shooting, for which he was convicted of first-degree assault and sentenced to ten years in prison.
“He was betrayed,” said his mother, Frances Myvette, in the trailer. “I was absolutely set up to be the fall guy,” added Shyne. “One of the most difficult parts of it, was watching everybody succeed. … I spent ten years in prison, but I was able to move on. … There’s a time to pivot, there’s a time to transition, and that’s how I got into politics.”
In an interview with Channel 5 Belize earlier this year, he made similar comments in a discussion about his past. “Everyone knew all along that I was the fall guy,” he said. “But my political enemies and, you know, detractors try to make me into, you know, this criminal. But everyone knew that I was a young kid that took the fall. Everyone knew that, that was the story. I’m just saying that I maintained my innocence all this time.”
The full documentary is set to debut on Hulu on November 18.
While Shyne was convicted in the shooting, Diddy was acquitted on weapons charges and remained a free man. “Under no circumstances whatsoever did I have anything to do with a shooting,” Diddy said in a press conference at the time. “I do not own a gun nor did I have possession of a gun that night.” One of the three people injured in the shooting, Natania Reuben, claims that Diddy was the one who shot her.
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In a 2022 episode of Drink Champs, Shyne said that he didn’t blame Diddy for his conviction. “I did go through a stage of bitterness,” he shared. “But in retrospect, I blame it more on the lawyers that were advising him. Because his lawyers were there to secure a ‘not guilty’ verdict by any means.” While he maintained an amicable relationship with him as recently as 2023, he denounced the disgraced rapper after a video showed him assaulting Cassie.
More recently, he said that Diddy “pretty much sent me to prison,” but he takes no “joy” in seeing his former record label boss behind bars on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
