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Violetta Wallace, the mother of legendary rapper Biggie Smalls, has some harsh words for Diddy.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Wallace, 71, said she wanted to ‘slap the daylights’ out of the music mogul – real name Sean Combs – as she responded to the accusations of sexual abuse and violence leveled against him.
‘I hope that I see Sean one day and the only thing I want to do is slap the daylights out of him. And you can quote me on that,’ she said.
‘Because I liked him. I didn’t want to believe all the awful things, but I’m so ashamed and embarrassed,’ Wallace, 71, added.
Wallace said she was sickened to learn of the allegations and she was sending prayers to his ex-girlfriend, Cassie, who was recently captured being beaten by Diddy in 2016 hotel surveillance footage.
Violetta Wallace, the mother of legendary rapper Biggie Smalls, has some harsh words for Diddy
Wallace’s son, The Notorious B.I.G., pictured in 1995
‘I’m sick to my stomach,’ she told the outlet. ‘I’m praying for Cassie. I’m praying for his mother. I don’t want to believe the things that I’ve heard, but I’ve seen [the hotel video]. I pray that he apologizes to her.’
She said Diddy needed to apologize to his mother, Janice Combs: ‘He needs to apologize to his mother,’ she told the outlet. ‘I hope to God he sits her down and spills his guts and apologize to her.’
Wallace’s son The Notorious B.I.G. was signed to Diddy’s record label Bad Boy Records, however the rapper reportedly was working on departing the company just before his passing.
Biggie, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was gunned down in cold blood on March 9, 1997 in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, aged just 24.
The Juicy singer had earlier delivered his final performance at the Soul Train Awards before he was killed after leaving an after-party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in a two-vehicle convoy.
Wallace’s comments came on the heels of a six-month investigation into Diddy done by Rolling Stone.
The publication learned Diddy had allegedly insisted on appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone despite another Bad Boy executive pushing for Biggie to front the magazine.
At the time, Biggie had just passed, and the publication asked Bad Boy Records if they would be interested in having a musician appear on their cover.
A former Bad Boy executive recalled how he pushed for their late artist to appear on the cover – and how Diddy was adamant on fronting the magazine himself as Smalls was now ‘dead.’
Biggie Smalls – real name Christopher Wallace – pictured performing with Diddy in 1994
Cassie, whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, sued Combs in November over what she said was years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including beatings and rape; Diddy and Cassie pictured in 2018
Former Bad Boy president and co-founder Kirk Burrowes told the publication: ‘I was telling Sean, “Let’s make it Biggie. You still have a chance [for a cover in the future],”‘ Burrowes recollected.
‘He’s like “No, he’s dead. I’m putting out [Combs’ debut album, No Way Out] in July. I need to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.”‘
The 1997 cover ultimately went to Diddy.
Wallace declined to provide comment on this particular story when asked by Rolling Stone for a remark.
Diddy is currently facing criminal charges, as a grand jury has been selected to hear evidence against him in a federal probe.
The DOJ is gearing up to bring a criminal indictment against him as his accusers have been told they could be brought to testify in New York City, CNN reports.
Diddy allegedly insisted on appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone despite the publication asking for the late Bad Boy musician Biggie Smalls. He ultimately fronted the magazine
The rapper and producer has been named in eight lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault and human trafficking.
The potential witnesses have not yet been prepped to testify for the prosecution, as Homeland Security investigators are still reportedly gathering evidence in the case.
A source told CNN that detectives want their indictment against Diddy to be ‘bulletproof.’
The indictment would not be related to Diddy’s filmed assault of his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
Cassie, whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, sued Combs in November over what she said was years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including beatings and rape.
The suit said he plied her with drugs, forced her to have sex with other men, and raped her in her home as she was trying to end the relationship in 2018. Diddy, through his attorney, ‘vehemently denies’ the accusations.
The late rapper and Diddy on the set of Biggie’s music video, Hypnotize, in 1997
The legal challenge by Cassie was settled the next day, but spurred intense scrutiny of Diddy, with several more lawsuits filed in the following months, along with a federal criminal sex-trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
Combs’ sons, Justin and Christian ‘King’ Combs, were handcuffed during the raid at their father’s residence in Los Angeles.
Two more women accused Diddy of sexual abuse in lawsuits filed on the eve of the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act last November, a New York law permitting victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil action regardless of the statute of limitations.
The lawsuits, filed by Joi Dickerson and another woman who was not named, allege acts of sexual assault, beatings and forced drugging in the early 1990s by Combs, then a talent director, party promoter and rising figure in New York City’s hip-hop community.
In December, another woman alleged in a lawsuit that in 2003 when she was 17, Diddy and two other men raped her. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan says she was living in a Detroit suburb and was flown to a New York studio, where she was given drugs and alcohol that made her incapable of consenting to sex, and the men took turns raping her.
The same day, Diddy posted a statement on Instagram broadly denying all the allegations in the mounting series of lawsuits.
‘I did not do any of the awful things being alleged,’ the post says. ‘I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.’
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging Diddy coerced him to solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
The lawsuit gives a long list of potentially illegal activities dealing with drugs and sex that the producer says he witnessed. A lawyer for the rapper called the allegations ‘pure fiction.’
The rapper is among the most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the past three decades.
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, he built one of hip-hop’s biggest empires, blazing a trail with several entities attached to his famous name.
He is the founder of Bad Boy Records and a three-time Grammy winner who has worked with a slew of top-tier artists including Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and 112.
