NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 15: Brian Metal, lawyer for P. Diddy Combs, arrives throughout Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial at Manhattan Federal Courtroom on Might 15, 2025 in New York Metropolis. R&B singer Cassie Ventura, Combs’ former girlfriend, is testifying probably by way of tomorrow, because the prosecution’s witness. Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible on all counts, which embody a racketeering cost alleging the hip-hop pioneer was the chief of a intercourse crime ring that included drug-fueled intercourse events by way of using power, threats and violence. (Picture by John Lamparski/Getty Pictures)
Lawyer Brian Metal is the Black rapper’s white savior. Overlook the white Jesus your grandmother had on her wall subsequent to footage of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy…when individuals born within the Eighties grow to be grandparents, they will can have an image of a white lawyer hanging on their eating room wall.
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Don’t imagine me? Let me make the case.
Jeffery Williams (you may know him as Younger Thug) was on trial in Georgia from November 2023 to December 2024. He was preventing RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) costs, which alleged that he used his music label, YSL, as a entrance for prison exercise.
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It was the longest prison trial in that state’s historical past. And whereas Thug didn’t beat the costs, he may as effectively have. He accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to time served and launched on probation. Who do you assume obtained him that deal?
That may not persuade you. The subsequent one will.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation for prostitution by the federal authorities. He was tried by prosecutors from the Southern District of New York and people individuals imply enterprise. They’ve a conviction price of over 90%. Which means they nearly by no means lose a case. If they arrive knocking in your door and also you’re an everyday particular person, it’s often a wrap.
However Diddy beat his largest costs. Why…? He had Metal working his case.
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Combs noticed the success this unassuming white lawyer had on Thug’s case and employed the Fordham grad to defend him towards one of many high prosecutorial workplaces within the nation. And the lawyer from Queens delivered.
However even earlier than the Diddy trial, Drake seen what the person did for his frequent collaborator. He and PARTYNEXTDOOR had a track entitled “Brian Metal” on their lackluster album “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” paying homage to him.
Brian Metal is the white Johnnie Cochran. In case you are wealthy, Black and get caught doing one thing you’re not speculated to. There is just one quantity you must name.
He is probably not white Jesus. However he can get a plate from the cookout. He nonetheless can’t come, however he can eat the meals.
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