Meek has repeatedly denied the claims and in a new interview with Complex said: “I truly believe it is a group of people aiming to tear down rappers, or Black entertainers involved in this culture through media platforms. He sets up a hypothetical, trying to explain the threadbare, flimsy nature of ‘truth’ on the internet.

“There was never a way people could just put out one rumor, and say I raped a little girl … Now it’s in 15 publications that I raped a little girl. That’s defamation on any level, but it’s the way with social media and the internet.”

He went on to address Diddy more directly: “When I come around from Philadelphia, I always come around with three, four people. I’ve never been in these types of environments without my guys around. A lot of people, they said sex parties. I attended New Year’s parties. I never attended [Diddy’s] white parties.

“It’s kind of suspicious to me that none of those people from the Black community never spoke up and said those parties they went to wasn’t straight freak offs. I can just say, for me, I would never step in anywhere that I see anything that doesn’t align with my morals.”