The renowned rapper and actor – whose real name is Scott Mescudi – publicly recounted for the first time his experience in Manhattan federal court on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, telling host Alex Cooper he only testified against the Bad Boy Records founder because he was subpoenaed.

Kid Cudi, a key witness in the sex trafficking trial against hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, revealed in a new interview published Wednesday that he declined to testify twice before he was ultimately subpoenaed.

Kid Cudi "hated every minute" of testifying in the trial against Sean' Diddy' Combs in May. Cudi was ordered to testify in the high-profile trial in New York because of his brief relationship with Combs' ex,