‘It was a lot:’ Yung Miami talks fallout of relationship with Diddy
You think you have problems shaking your ex? Try being in Yung Miami’s shoes.
The Miami rapper opened up to Charlamagne tha God this week about the toll the relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs took on her.
The City Girls singer and disgraced music mogul dated on and off from 2021 to 2023, shortly after their red-carpet appearance at the Met Gala in May. Their time together was tumultuous — e.g., during a break in 2022, Combs had a daughter with another woman, San Fran tech businesswoman Dana Tran.
Yung Miami was well out of the picture by March 2024, when the hip-hopper’s homes in Miami Beach and L.A. were raided. Feds were investigating the Bad Boy Records founder after a lawsuit by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones made shocking sex-trafficking claims. Combs was eventually arrested months later and a subsequent trial found him guilty on prostitution charges. The 56-year-old’s release from Fort Dix FCI is set for April 25, 2028.
“It was a lot,” Yung Miami admitted to the “Breakfast Club” host. “I lost deals, I lost relationships, I lost money...”
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Regardless, the artist born Caresha Brownlee doesn’t seem to regret being in Combs’ circle. The 32-year-old Opa-locka native went so far as to write a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian requesting leniency before her former beau’s sentencing.
Charlamagne inquired about what compelled her to do that, knowing she would receive backlash from the public who’d seen the leaked video of Combs viciously attacking another ex, Cassie Ventura, in a hotel hallway years back.
“I’m not gonna justify some bulls--- or support something if I felt like that person wasn’t changed. I felt that the person I met was changed. It was a different experience,” Yung Miami said, adding the man she knew helped her grow, treated her like a “queen” and made her believe in herself.
“If I meet you today or if my time that I experience with you is one way, I can only judge that person that way, the “Twerk” hitmaker said. “I feel like people can have opinions, but I can only judge a person off of what I know and what I experience. Like I can’t speak on nothing that I never was a part of, that I never knew.”
On Instagram before the “Breakfast Club” chat, Yung Miami posted a few clips of her getting ready with her team.
“Life is a journey …I am perfectly flawed & I’m a human … I’ma go through things,” read the caption. “It’s an open journey … come on this journey w me & we’ll look back & say I’m so proud of you.”
Despite being the recipient of some negative vibes for a while, Yung Miami’s journey finally includes music again. The mother of two is on the verge of dropping a new album and just held a listening session in Atlanta for two tracks, “Tea Time” and “News Flash.” A reunion with her former partner JT (Jatavia Johnson) may even be in the cards.
“I feel like it was a marriage,” she told Charlamagne of the fellow 305-er. “We’re childhood friends. That love is always going to be there. We’re family.”
