Diddy’s interview with Martin Bashir

Diddy sat down for an interview with ‘Nightline’s’ Martin Bashir.

When asked if he enjoyed being a dad, Diddy said yes but admitted that it was the area that he did not consider himself most successful, citing that his kids “deserved more (of his) personal time.”

That response jump-started a series of questions about Diddy’s parental discretion that made the hip-hop figure visibly annoyed at times.

Bashir suggested that Diddy was setting a bad example as a role model by having six kids by multiple women.

Diddy defended himself, saying, “All of my kids are taken care of. They all go to the best schools.” Bashir quipped, “But you don’t live with them.”

Nightline also aired footage of the VH1 show My Super Sweet 16, celebrating Diddy’s son Justin. That episode made the news when it aired in February because Diddy gave Justin a Maybach car worth more than $360,000. Bashir asked Diddy what many people wanted to know — “Do you think it was appropriate to buy your 16-year-old son a Maybach car worth almost $400,000?”

Diddy seemed put off by the question, replying that he can give his kids whatever he wanted. But as Bashir continued to press the issue, Diddy grew increasingly annoyed.

When Bashir asked if giving such a lavish gift imposed a “sensible lesson,” Diddy said, “I feel the way I raise my children, you know, I don’t have to explain to you or anybody else because nobody knows the way I raise my children.”

A persistent Bashir tried an additional time to get Diddy to admit that the gesture was excessive, but Diddy stood his ground.

“It wasn’t even about a lesson,” he said with attitude. “It’s what I wanted to do. I can do whatever I want to do with my children. And you can’t question me about it. Nobody can question me about what I do with my children.”

I’m glad Bashir was bold enough to call Diddy out, on having 6 kids buy multiple women, granted he can afford to take of them, but he can’t give all of these kids quality time…plus he is a role model like it or not a lot of young men think it’s ok to have multiple families unfortunately “most” of these young men who find themselves in this situation don’t have money like Diddy so the kids suffer in the long run…with that being said if were gonna call out Diddy then we need to call out white rockstars who do the same like Gene Simmons, Mick Jagger etc, it goes 2 ways in my opinion these men are no better then Diddy but they never get called out.

As far as Diddy buying Justin a 400k maybach, I don’t think it makes Diddy a bad father,
but I also think that a 16-year-old kid doesn’t need a car that costs double what the average family brings home in an entire year. even if he can afford it, I don’t think it’s that’s serious, but at the end of the day Diddy is a grown man and he’s gonna do what he wants to do…