Exclusive | Sean Diddy Combs didnt know his prison call with Kanye West was being recorded: Collateral damage in war with Kim Kardashian

Sean “Diddy” Combs didn’t know his leaked jailhouse call with Kanye West had been recorded for the general public to hear, a source close to the matter exclusively told The Post. A video showing Ye, 47, talking on the phone with Diddy, 55, was posted Monday on Instagram by The Shade Room.The video appeared to have been recorded by Ye; however, it’s not clear who leaked the video. “Puff didn’t know it was being recorded [on video],” the source claimed, adding that Combs “thought he was having a friend call him to check on his kids.”While all prison calls are logged and recorded internally, those records are not generally available to the public.

Responding to social media speculation about the recording’s authenticity, the source confirmed, “The call was real and not AI.”Combs is currently being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn while he awaits trial on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.The hip-hop mogul has pleaded not guilty on all counts.On his call with Ye, Combs encouraged the embattled star to “have some f–king fun” and to “get behind the mic.” He also thanked Ye for “taking care of my kids” following his lockup in September. Diddy has seven children: son Christian, 26, and twin daughters Jessie and D’Lila, 17, with his late ex Kim Porter; Quincy, 33, his adopted son from Porter’s marriage to ex-husband singer Al B.

Sure!; son Justin, 31, and daughters Chance, 18, and Love, 2, whom he shares with Misa Hylton, Sarah Chapman and Dana Tran, respectively.“Diddy’s kids are in touch with Ye,” the source confirmed to The Post.Ye excerpted Combs’ words of gratitude from the recorded call and used them in the opening for a new song, “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine,” a snippet of which he shared Saturday in a since-deleted post on X. “Ye is doing Ye,” the insider said of the Yeezy founder allegedly recording the cal...