Harlem, NY –
Diddy has reunited with former Bad Boy rapper G. Dep following his release from prison.
A video posted by Diddy’s son Justin Combs on Sunday (September 8) shows the “Let’s Get It” collaborators sharing a warm embrace in their home borough of Harlem.
Dep, who was released from prison in April after spending 14 years behind bars, also posted a photo on Instagram of him and his former label boss sitting on a stoop together.
“Praise the Creator!!! Around! Let’s get it!” he captioned the image.
G. Dep’s enthusiasm wasn’t shared by everyone, though, with many fans criticizing his post given the string of sexual assault lawsuits against Diddy.
“Nah G, this ain’t it. Hope this didn’t go beyond a picture,” one person commented, while another wrote: “You praising god sitting next to the devil.”
Someone else suggested that Puffy was only “using” the Child of the Ghetto rapper because “nobody else tryna stand next to him.”
Dep (real name Trevell Gerald Coleman) was granted clemency by New York Governor Kathy Hochul after initially being sentenced to 15 years to life for murder.
The rapper walked into a New York police precinct in 2010 and admitted to fatally shooting a 32-year-old man named John Henkel during a robbery attempt in 1993 when he was a teenager.
In an interview with The New York Post after his sentencing, G. Dep said he did not regret his decision to turn himself in: “Maybe at the end of serving time or after looking back, someone might feel differently. But now I feel what I did was right.”
In a more recent conversation with The Art of Dialogue following his release from prison, the former Bad Boy rapper revealed that Diddy never visited him when he was behind bars.
Despite this, G. Dep would later defend the embattled mogul against his sexual assault allegations and express a desire for them to work together again.
“I’m like, ‘When? When did that happen?’” he told Fox 5 New York when asked about the claims against Diddy. “We were in the studio for months on end with each other. So I don’t know where this is coming from.
“He reached out to me inadvertently,” he said. “Like videos and [a] couple of interviews, I head him shout me out […] I couldn’t expect too much from anybody — that wasn’t what type of time that was. I went in there on my own volition.”
“People should give people the benefit of the doubt. If somebody just saying that you did something, you know people can say anything.”
He added: “[I] got a lot of songs, bro. I’m looking for you so we can get some type of musical situation going.”
