Master P has extended an olive branch to his son, Romeo Miller, following their public dispute.
The No Limit Records founder and his 33-year-old son became embroiled in a social media spat over the weekend, stemming from Romeo appearing to call out his father for addressing the recent suicide of DJ/dancer Stephen “tWitch” Boss, yet allegedly neglecting his own child’s mental health struggles.
After a bitter back-and-forth between the father and son duo ensued via a series of Instagram posts and comments, Master P issued somewhat of an apology to Romeo in what he says is his final post on the matter.
“I love my family, my door is always open for my son,” he said in a video posted to Instagram on Sunday (December 18). “And if I’m wrong, forgive me. I’m apologizing to you if I’m wrong. I’m still a work-in-progress, I come from nothing. Everybody go through trauma; I’m dealing with this right now.”
“But I love going out into the community and helping people — that’s the way I heal. Allow me to heal!” he added, addressing one of Romeo’s criticisms. “I don’t have to be sitting around moaning and crying. I can’t get my daughter back. But I can go out there and keep her legacy going.”
P continued: “So let’s do this in love, let’s do this in peace. Think about it, we stronger together. But you older now, so you got to lead by example for the rest of the kids. And we’ll get through this. I’m just telling y’all keep y’all prayers, we need it, and God gonna do what He gotta do.
“I’m not gonna come on here no more, so bloggers and everything else is cool. Whatever you wanna deal with, deal with Romeo. Whatever y’all think he saying is true or whatever, that’s cool too. I can live with it. I’m at peace now, I had to speak my piece.”
Despite his peace offering, Master P’s video wasn’t without its digs directed at Romeo. The 52-year-old rap mogul accused his son of avoiding his calls for “months” and questioned why he hasn’t been able to replicate his success.
“Today’s a sad day because I gotta get out of character and put this on the internet, which I don’t want to do, but I tried to call my son,” he said. “People say, ‘Why’d you call [him]?’ I did. He don’t call back, it’s been months.
“So my question to Romeo is: If you’ve been in the business for as long as you’ve been in, and you a thirty-something-year-old man and if you’ve been around me, watching me hustle and do my thing, why you not where you want to be at?”
He added: “Because that means you not listening. That means you want to do your own thing. You done brought your own circle of people. But you can’t get mad at me.”
The “Make ‘Em Say Uhh!” rapper also accused Romeo of being ungrateful and believes it’s because he gave his son a sheltered upbringing.
“That’s the problem when you take kids and you protect them from the real struggle and the pain and you don’t allow them to deal with their own consequences,” he said. “And then when they grow older, they [say], ‘Oh, ‘You never gave me nothing!’ At 30-something, man.
“People can go back and look, you’ve been shining for a long time, son. All you gotta do is pick up the phone and call me or come to the house and holla at me.”
