Too Short is apologizing for saying he would go to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ coming home party, and in the same video he is defending the parties themselves.
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The Oakland rap legend posted the video on social media, thanking everyone who called and texted him about what he called “this TMZ Puff Daddy thing.” “I was a little insensitive with my words,” he said. “I said that I didn’t condone what he did to Cassie, but I would go to his party if he came home. And I really didn’t know the full extent of the case.”
He admitted he did not know how many women had accused Diddy of abuse or how it had affected them. “I do not condone abuse in any kind of way, not emotional, not physical, not sexual. And I don’t support anybody that does it,” he said. “I have listened. I have learned. I read up on it.”
He directed the apology to the women in his life, naming his daughter, her mother, his late mother, his stepmother, his cousins, nieces and aunties. He said the issue was not about race but about women across the board.
Then came the clarification. Too Short said when he talked about going to a party, he meant the gatherings Diddy throws for his friends. “Not any party where it’s [expletive] baby oil or some [expletive] sexual [expletive],” he said. “I’ve been to dozens of these parties and never once have I seen a naked person or a sexual act.”
The baby oil line points straight at the case. When federal agents raided Diddy’s homes in 2024, prosecutors said they seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant, and it became one of the most talked about details of the whole saga.
Too Short insisted the parties he attended were social events people fought to get into. “You want to get on the list. Everybody wants to get in,” he said. “But now everybody’s saying that every party he threw was a sex party. It was not like that ever, ever, ever.”
He also still called Diddy his brother. “I hope that when my brother comes home that he has grown,” he said. “And I hope that when he comes home, that he’s not an abuser anymore.”
The original interview with TMZ Podcast host Towanda Robinson went further than a party RSVP. Too Short said the 2016 hotel surveillance video of Diddy attacking Cassie Ventura was the one thing he judged him for, but he also said he did not think Diddy should be behind bars for the conduct that put him there. The apology video does not address that comment, and Too Short never said he would skip the party.
Diddy was convicted in July 2025 on two federal counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of the more serious racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges. He was sentenced to 50 months and is serving his time at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. His release date has been reported as shifting, with Hot 97 reporting it moved to January 21, 2028.
“So once again, apologies to all the people, male, female, who were offended by my words,” Too Short said.
