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.”
Ghostface then claimed he later found out Diddy blocked them from getting on the radio: “RZA told me this like maybe a year ago, and said like, ‘Yo, Puff admitted to saying that he stopped our records up there.’ So it was all Bad Boy. We dropped ‘Triumph,’ no radio play with that shit. So it came out that he told the truth, like, ‘Yo, I had to do it.’ He had the power. I don’t know what he paid ’em, but he had the power. Listen, we was a threat. We was coming, if ‘Triumph’ was promoted like it was supposed to be and we would have stayed on that radio right there, I think things to right now would have been a little bit different.”
