Ye Pleads With Trump to Release ‘My Brother’ Diddy From Jail, Says ‘Slavery Is a Choice’ Again

On Thursday, Ye took to social media to call for the release of Sean "Diddy" Combs, who has been in jail since his arrest on sex trafficking charges last September.

"FREE PUFF," he simply wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It’s not currently clear what exactly prompted his message regarding Diddy’s freedom.

Not long after his tweet mentioning Diddy, the 47-year-old rapper referenced President Trump in a message pleading for him to release the Bad Boy Records founder. "@realDonaldTrump PLEASE FREE MY BROTHER PUFF," he wrote.

Ye continued his stream of consciousness on X, touching on several topics, including "woke shit" and his thoughts on how the music industry has treated Chris Brown.

The Donda rapper also doubled down on his idea that "slavery is a choice." He first brought up this controversial take back in 2018 during a episode of 'TMZ Live' with TMZ founder Harvey Levin. "When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice," he said. "Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? It's like we're mentally imprisoned. I like the word 'imprisoned' because slavery goes too directly to the idea of blacks... so prison is something that unites us as one race. Blacks and whites being one race. That we're the human race."

In another tweet in which he was "speaking my mind," Ye promised that he's not "editing shit ever again" and referenced his accounts getting frozen and his Adidas sneaker deal getting canceled—the company terminated its partnership with the rapper in 2022 after he made antisemitic remarks.

Ye also shared a video of himself FaceTiming Diddy's son, Christian Combs. The post included a caption discussing fathers and sons, as well as Dave Chappelle.

"SON TO HIS DAD FOR EVERY SON WHO DAD IS LOCKED UP WRITE OR WRONG I WANT YALL TO LISTEN TO DAVE CHAPELLES JOKES VERY CLOSE... THIS TIME LETS SEE HOW FUNNY IT GETS WHEN FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED ESPECIALLY BLACK FAMILIES."

While it’s not yet clear exactly why Ye called for Diddy's freedom, it’s worth noting that, aside from his wife Bianca Censori, the artist formerly known as Ye is only following the artist formerly known as P. Diddy on Instagram, as seen in the screengrab below.

This comes after a TMZ report over the weekend ahead of the Grammys claimed that Ye's Instagram account had unfollowed everyone, including his wife, except for Taylor Swift. It’s not clear why he unfollowed Taylor either.

Shortly before that, Ye took to Instagram Stories with a message that read, “1 following,” accompanied by a screenshot of his Instagram account. A follow-up post showed that Taylor was the only person he was following at the time, according to Billboard.

This isn't the first time Ye has mentioned Diddy. In fact, he's uttered the disgraced mogul's name on several occasions in recent years. Last February, Ye mentioned a string of well-known names including Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Diddy, Taylor Swift, Jesus Christ, and Elon Musk on the Vultures track "Carnival" that he played during a livestream event.

After a 2022 Fox News appearance, Ye posted on Instagram about Diddy and Boosie Badazz, who had criticized his "White Lives Matter" design in YZY SZN 9. He shared a text exchange, saying Diddy "misspoke" but added, "I still love him."

That same year, Ye made a surprise appearance at the 2022 BET Awards on Sunday night to present "Diddy" with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Diddy is currently sitting in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he is awaiting trial on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.