Usher blasts 'mean' P Diddy

R&B superstar Usher has launched a scathing attack on hip-hop mogul Sean 'P Diddy' Combs for failing to offer him financial help in his time of desperate need.

The chart-topping singer turned to Combs when he was a teenager starting out in the music business, but remains resentful the rapper snubbed him after gaining his trust.

He rants, "I looked up to Puffy, but he turned his back on me. I went to him once when my record company wasn't doing me so well, when I was about 17, and I'm like, 'Yo, Puff, you know, I need some money, I don't have any money, man, and can I borrow $5,000 (€4,000)?'

"And he's like, 'Nah, man, I haven't got it.' And yet he was walking Versace, you know?"