In gentle of current occasions, Kesha is giving certainly one of her largest songs a rewrite.
The singer carried out her mid-aughts monitor “Tik Tok” with Reneé Rapp at Coachella on Sunday, however tweaked its opening lyric that references Diddy after the rapper’s houses have been raided by legislation enforcement.
Instead of the road “get up within the morning feeling like P. Diddy,” Kesha as an alternative sang “(expletive) P. Diddy” whereas elevating a center finger.
Her shock look got here throughout Rapp’s Coachella set, and the “Imply Ladies” star joined Kesha in cursing out Diddy and elevating a center finger within the air.
Final month, U.S. Homeland Safety Investigations officers raided two of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ houses, which a number of retailers reported was a part of a intercourse trafficking investigation. In current months, Diddy has confronted quite a few allegations of sexual assault in a slate of civil fits filed towards him.
This is not the primary time Kesha has tweaked the lyrics of “Tik Tok.” In November, she dropped Diddy’s identify from the tune solely, singing at a Los Angeles live performance, “Get up within the morning feelin’ similar to me.” That change got here on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who sued him for rape and intercourse trafficking in November.
“Mr. Combs asserted full management over Ms. Ventura’s private {and professional} life, thereby guaranteeing her incapacity to flee his maintain,” the lawsuit stated. “He supplied unprecedented avenues for achievement for the aspiring artist, however in return, demanded obedience, loyalty and silence.”
Cassie and Diddy shortly reached a settlement. Diddy’s lawyer has stated the rapper is harmless and criticized the raid on his houses as a “witch hunt based mostly on meritless accusations.”
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Talking to MTV Information in 2009, Kesha defined the Diddy lyric took place “as a result of one morning, I awoke surrounded by a bunch of sizzling babes, and I used to be like, ‘I am like Diddy, man.'” Diddy additionally contributed vocals to the tune.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Naledi Ushe