R&B singer Jaguar Wright has had minor success as a solo artist, and arguably made more waves as a sometime member of legendary Philadelphia outfit The Roots and as a featured artist alongside the likes of Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill, and others. She’s been in the music industry for over 20 years, and she has never been shy about calling out such artists as Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Common, and others for alleged skeevy behavior. When it comes to Sean Combs, though, Wright is pretty convinced that his behavior transcends the merely skeevy. In an infamous 2022 interview, she implied strongly that she believes Combs’ ambition to know literally no bounds.
The interview, with Real Lyfe Productions, came shortly after fellow R&B singer and former Uptown Records artist Al B. Sure woke up from a two-month coma and was slowly recovering from a host of medical problems. In it, Wright points out that Uptown started with five people: Andre Harrell, his longtime assistant (and Combs’ longtime girlfriend) Kim Porter, beloved MC Dwight “Heavy D” Myers, Al B. Sure, and Combs himself. She then deadpanned, pausing in between each name for emphasis: “Kim is dead. Heavy D is dead. Andre Harrell is dead. The only two left are [Combs] and Al, and Al almost died.” She further asserted that every one of those five individuals not named Sean Combs were working on books about their experiences in music at the time of their death or health crisis — leaving the interviewer, and the viewer, to draw their own conclusions.
