Shyne: 'Diddy doesn't care who he hurts'

Shyne has revealed that he doesn’t understand why P Diddy did not come to his defence during their 2000 court battle.

The rapper was convicted on charges of assault in 1999 after shooting two people at a New York club, which Diddy and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were attending.

In an interview with XXL, the 31-year-old claimed that he would never have handled the situation in the way that the hip-hop mogul did.

He said: "I don't know whether he was nervous, afraid. When you're afraid and you're emotional, that's a different survival tactic. Those are the people that do anything, regardless of character and integrity, to preserve and protect themselves, regardless of who they hurt.

"I guess maybe that was the situation. Never been in a situation like that, where he facing years, and he got hundreds of millions and all that shit at stake. But where I'm from, doesn't matter. You lose everything for your comrade. Again, if you're in battle, I'll catch a bullet, too. It ain't like, ‘Yo, he's dead. Don't make no sense for me to die, too. Nah, I'ma die, too!'"

He added: "So you hope or you take for granted that all men are the same. But I know all men are not."