The mogul once known as Puff Daddy allegedly laid a beatdown on the Canadian crooner after Drake either used Diddy’s music without proper rights or disrespected his girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, at LIV in Miami Beach early Monday. The older rapper got in three punches during the brawl at the birthday bash for DJ Khaled, a source tells The News.
In a nightclub brawl early Monday, rap mogul Diddy left a much-younger Drake seeing stars over Miami Beach, sources told the Daily News.
Tension at the swanky LIV nightclub boiled over into fisticuffs between the millionaire entertainers that ended with Drake on the wrong end of a Diddy smackdown.
Witnesses said 45-year-old Sean Combs clocked the 28-year-old “Worst Behavior” singer about 4 a.m. outside the Fountainbleau hotel on posh Collins Ave. in a brawl capping an Art Basel Miami bash.
“Drake definitely got the s–t kicked out of him,” said Bullet magazine editor Ray LeMoine, who’d been partying at LIV earlier that weekend and got a flurry of texts from friends who’d stayed behind. “I heard they were taking him to the hospital.”
Some witnesses said the beef stemmed from Drake disrespecting Diddy by using music without proper rights. Others said the face-off came after a drunk Drake made an offensive comment to Diddy’s girlfriend, “Let’s Get Crazy” singer Cassie Ventura, 28.
“(Diddy) had his security walk over to Drake’s table and let them know that Diddy wanted to talk to him outside around 4 a.m.,” a club insider told The News on Monday.
Both entertainers marched outside with their entourages in tow. Within 20 minutes, the fight was over and Diddy was back inside the nightclub chilling in a V.I.P. booth.
Drake left the club after the two scuffled, sources said.
“Diddy punched Drake three times,” a witness who was at the club at the time of the fight told The News.
Sources confirmed that Diddy and Drake were both staying at the upscale hotel during the weeklong Art Basel festival.
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