Too $hort Says Sorry After Diddy Welcome-Home Party Backlash — “I Was a Little Insensitive”
Oakland legend Too $hort apologizes on IG after backlash for saying he'd attend Diddy's welcome-home party — still calls Puff his brother. CONFIRMED (his own video). T3 Regional, Bay Area.
Too $hort is walking it back.
Last week the Oakland legend told The TMZ Podcast, "I'm going to the Puff Daddy coming home party," and said he didn't think Diddy should be locked up for the conduct that sent him to prison. He drew the line at the 2016 hotel video of Diddy attacking Cassie Ventura, but said in all his years around Puff he never saw anything "freaky."
The backlash hit fast. In a new Instagram video posted Sunday, Short Dogg said: "I want to thank all the people that called me yesterday. Text me, hit me up about this TMZ Puff Daddy thing. I was a little insensitive with my words."
He said he knew about the Cassie video but "really didn't know the full extent of the case. I did not know that there were a lot of women who had claimed that they had been abused by Puff Daddy." He added: "I do not condone abuse in any kind of way — not emotional, not physical, not sexual... I want to say I'm sorry to the people that were hurt by the words that I said."
He brought it home to his own family: "I have a daughter... This is not a black thing. This is all women across the board."
But he did not cut Diddy off. He said the party he meant was the kind Puff throws for his friends, "not any party where it is f**king baby oil," said he's been to dozens of them and never saw a naked person or a sexual act, and still called Diddy his brother: "I hope that when he comes home, that he's not an abuser anymore."
Diddy is serving 50 months at FCI Fort Dix after his July 2025 conviction on two Mann Act transportation counts (acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking). Federal records list a projected release of Jan. 21, 2028.
CONFIRMED — Too $hort's own Instagram video (via AllHipHop, Oct 4) and his original TMZ Podcast comments (TMZ, Complex, HotNewHipHop). Searchable: Too Short, Diddy, Puff Daddy, TMZ Podcast, Cassie, Oakland, Bay Area.