Kid Cudi Didn’t Want to Testify in Diddy Trial, But ‘I Knew I Was Helping Cassie’

Kid Cudi sat down with CBS News‘ Anthony Mason to speak on his recently released autobiography, Cudi: The Memoir, and was asked about his much publicized testimony during the Diddy trial.

“It was really hard. I didn’t want to do it,” he answered after being asked how hard it was for him to testify. “I got subpoenaed and I knew I was helping Cassie and I just wanted to be there for her and help her out. It was a tough situation.”

He then added that he felt backlash from fans on social media and friends in his personal life for taking the stand even though he’s never associated himself or made music about street life.

“The backlash was swift,” Cudi admitted. “I had a lot of people that supported me, but there were a few that were — you know — had some opinions about it. It was interesting because I’m not no street dude. I don’t live by no code, you know? I guess it’s because I’m a rapper, people just threw that on me. But, like, my music has never been about that and I have never tried to pretend I was about that. I’m from the suburbs, baby, you know what I’m sayin’? Straight up.”

Adding, “But I ain’t let it faze me, so I know I was doing the right thing. F— ’em, you know. Let those mother—-ers think whatever they want.”

And when it finally came to actually being on the stand, Cudi said that the experience was a “weird” one. “It was weird, man, because that was the first time I had seen him in a while,” he said. “We made eye contact a couple times. It was f—king weird, but I’m glad I got through it. Got it behind me. I know I did the right thing, so that’s all that matters.”

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Rapper @KidCudi reflects on testifying in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial about his brief relationship with Cassie Ventura and the events that followed, including a suspicious break-in at his home. “It was weird, man, because that was the first time I had seen him in a while, you know? We made eye contact a couple times… I did the right thing, so that’s all that matters.”

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Elsewhere in the interview, the Ohio rapper was asked about his broken friendship with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and said that his former collaborator “said some things that there’s no coming back from.”

Cudi: The Memoir was released on Tuesday, Aug. 12 and is available wherever books are sold.

You can watch the full conversation below.