Sean 'Diddy' Combs opened up for the first time on Wednesday
about his father(pictured right with Diddy as a kid) who was killed when he was just an infant.
A known associate of convicted drug dealer Frank Lucas,
Melvin Combs was shot dead while sitting in his car in New York City at the age
of 33 - something the hip-hop mogul made the decision not to publicly talk
about until now.
'My father was killed when I was 3 yrs old. we never got to share the moments that made me a man today..but he lives in my spirit..now I'm ready to tell the story YOUTUBE.COM/REVOLTTV #MelvinsSon,' Diddy posted on Twitter, with a link to his new music television project, Revolt TV.
'Being that my father was killed when I was three years old,
I don't have a lot of memories of my father,' he begins.
'They say you can't miss something you never had, but that's
only a little ways right. There's definitely been times as I've gotten older
that I've missed my father - his presence - not being here... There's things
that you would ask your father. There's also things that you would celebrate
with him that would make him proud.'
Referring to Melvin as a 'hustler', the successful
entrepreneur and businessman cites his father's shortcomings as the inspiration
to really make something of his own life.
Watch video interview after the jump