Shyne tried to tell people about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for years. People are finally listening

Moses “Shyne” Barrow went from being a rapper to a politician in his native Belize. His life is the subject of a new Hulu documentary, “The Honorable Shyne.”

Moses “Shyne” Barrow went from being a rapper to a politician in his native Belize, where as an elected representative he is referred to as “Honorable.” He told CNN it’s a word that isn’t just part of his title. “Everything I’ve been through has conditioned and prepared me and molded me into where I’m at presently. But where I’m at is where I wanted to be,” Barrow said. “I made the choice at 18 years old to say that I wasn’t going be dishonorable, and I wasn’t gonna get my friends in trouble to get myself out of trouble.” Barrow, now 46, made the comment in reference to how he conducted himself in a case that has forever tied him to Sean “Diddy” Combs. In 1999, the then-up-and-coming recording artist was signed to Combs’ Bad Boy Records. Barrow was part of the producer’s entourage at a New York City nightclub, along with Combs’ then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, when the evening ended in a hail of gunfire. Three people were wounded. Barrow, Combs and bodyguard Anthony Jones were tried in the shooting in 2001. Combs and Jones were acquitted, while Barrow was convicted on assault and firearm possession charges. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and deported to his native Belize following his release in 2009.