Lee Daniels’ hit TV show ‘Empire’ is breaking records for FOX TV and exciting the viewers, but all that doesn’t mean a thing to music mogul Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs. According to reports out there, Diddy has banned his adopted son Quincy, 23, son of music producer Al B. Sure! and Combs’s former girlfriend Kim Porter, from appearing on the show.
BET reports that Diddy got into a fight with 20th Century Fox TV over music rights, Page Sixreports. Sources say Brown was guaranteed a role on the show about a family-run hip hop record label (starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson), but Diddy pulled the plug when he learned that his son would have to sign over a portion of his music rights in relation to the show to Fox.
Stars on the show are subject to music contracts similar to those on other shows like Glee or American Idol, and the Timbaland-produced soundtrack is sold on iTunes and Spotify.
“Diddy kicked up a huge stink and called all the top brass at 20th Century Fox TV to get them to change their rules over music rights,” but he didn’t get his way, a source reveals. “He said there was no way his son was signing over his intellectual property. So he banned him from the show.”
Another source told us Quincy — who just released his first single, “Friends First,” is still being considered for a role on the second season. “Lee’s super excited about having Quincy on the show,” we’re told, as long as Diddy agrees to the intellectual property issue.