After performing “Big Pim***’,” Jay-Z says, “Thank you, I had a good time.” STOP!! Jay, I love “Big Pimpin’ ” but I know you ain’t going to go out like that. The band begins to play again, so Jay-Z cuts and you know he’s going to come back. About 15 minutes later, a voice goes, “We don’t have to go home!” — it’s Jay! Back onstage for “What More Can I Say,” followed by the final guest appearances of the night: Jermaine Dupri and the world’s greatest hype man, P. Diddy. You know Diddy had to get a mic even though he didn’t quite know all the words to the song, but the crowd barely noticed because they were back to head-bobbing and hand-waving. To close it out, Jay called for Beans and Freeway to come back up but Beans was literally in the middle of the crowd so he asked Freeway to hold him down on the final song, “Roc Boys.”

Officials said Acevedo would not cooperate with law enforcement and had given various versions of the event.

"For those reasons, we cannot prove any charges beyond a reasonable doubt," said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office.

“I’ve been informed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office that after a thorough investigation, they have made a decision not to authorize any arrests in connection with the incident involving Mr. Combs and Steven Acevado on October 13. I want to commend the DA’s office and the New York City Police Department for conducting a thorough and very fair investigation into this incident and not allowing this private disagreement between two acquaintances to turn into a criminal charge.”

Acevedo's attorney, Mark Jay Heller, said his client chose to take the "high road" because he believes in "good Karma."

MTV: Even though you aren't a fan of rap, you were friends with the father of one of hip-hop's most famous artists, right?

Lucas: Melvin Combs. He's a good friend of mind. That's Puff Daddy's father. He used to bring [his son] to my house every day, at least at least two or three times a week. And my daughter used to push him off the [toys]. He made it great. You see where he's at now. He's on top of the world now.

MTV: Were you and Melvin just friends or business partners?

Lucas: All the above. We did business and we were good friends. He was really a good friend of mine.

MTV: Do you remember how you met him?

Lucas: We all were out there on Seventh Avenue, and everybody knew everybody out there; I don't remember how I met him. But we had a good relationship. Me, him and [former street-basketball player] Pee Wee Kirkland. We were about as good of friends as you could get.

"I think I should have this job because my experience as a lawyer, a return Peace Corps volunteer, and my wide scope of professional experiences, I believe make me uniquely qualified to serve Mr. Combs. I'm very humble and not unwilling to take the role of assisting him because I understand who the star is in this relationship and I'm willing to support him in the way that he needs."

BallerStatus.com: What are some of your ideas for the marketing campaign if you aren't planning on gearing it toward the hip-hop community?

Diddy: Step one in the advertising campaign would just be to get the name recognition out there. Getting it recognized and getting it known that Ciroc is pronounced "S-ur-rock." [For people] to know that, they can request it at a bar and its level of luxury. That's an ultra-premium vodka. It's not a regular three-tiered vodka and that it is affordable. It's separate because it is the only vodka made by French grapes. Other vodkas are distilled by potatoes. So, it'd be getting that information out there. Phase one.

The next phase is to make it known for New Years Eve and the holidays, that this is the drink of choice. This is a time when people are going to be celebrating, having parties, trying new beverages. This is a time when they would organically try Ciroc. And that it is available and it's The Official Vodka Of New Years Eve, because Diddy said so. And I'm not really wrong when it comes to this party stuff.

Due to that whole situation, did anything to do with your business end up being affected negatively?
Nah. It basically just affected my business positively. I think it put me on a larger scale. I did a lot of traveling, I got booked for a lot of international gigs and you know the mixtape game as a whole slowed down, so that was a definite turn of events. But I think that's slowly but surely coming back to life, because of people like myself and a lot of other people are putting in a lot of work to bring the game back to life. I'm a firm believer that mixtapes will never die. But overall it didn't affect my business in any negative way.

At the end of the day, the stories in the media are always full of half truths and you're always going to have up's and you're always going to have down's. You got to take the good with the bad. A prime example would be Puffy. Look how many things Puff has been through? I've used this example before but let's just say he would have quit after the riot at that basketball game? Then he would never have started 'Bad Boy' records. Let's say he would have quit after Biggie got killed, let's say he quit after the trail for the gun charges? You can't let any type of controversy stop you from doing what you love.

MJ: Did you ever think there’d be this whole hip-hop thing? You guys are both mentioned in a million rap songs.

FL: Call them songs? When I came along, we had singing. They might make up songs about me, but I don’t have to like them.

MJ: What about you, Nick? You’re like a hip-hop folk hero.

NB: I never thought anything like this would happen. When hip-hop first started, everybody—I mean the music entrepreneurs—predicted that hip-hop would be dead in five years. They said, “Those m*****f****** ain’t gonna make no money.” But hip-hop rolled along, and look what they’re doing now. They got Jay-Z, Damon Dash, Kanye West, 50 Cent. These guys are doing something legitimate.

FL: At least Nick knows the names. I don’t know none of them. I know Puffy Combs, because of his father.

NB: Oh, Melvin! Melvin Combs.

FL: Melvin used to be at my house a couple of times a week. I’m proud to see Melvin’s son like that.

SEAN ''DIDDY'' COMBS (producer; CEO, Bad Boy): When I heard he may make another album, I was like, ''You need to let me executive-produce that album! Even Ali had a coach. Jordan had a coach. That's what I do best!'' ...

DIDDY: We have competed with each other over the years. But I was like, ''I still want to be involved in the project.'' He told me he had the concept of blaxploitation with a contemporary sound. I said, ''I got a bunch of those [beats].'' ...

DIDDY: After working with Biggie [the late rapper Christopher ''The Notorious B.I.G.'' Wallace], Mary J. Blige, and Faith Evans, there wasn't a lot of artists who inspired me to put time in and really grind out in the studio. [But Jay and I] were just two artists in there, and the vibes just fit. He must have finished four songs in a weekend's time. ...

DIDDY: He writes in his head. You'll hear grunts and ''Woo!'' — like he's impressed by what he's writing. Of course you're watching; you feel a little left out, like, ''Let me hear what you're saying!'' But he keeps writing, then he goes into a [recording] booth. It's almost like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, just looking at the equation and solving the problem. The only person I've ever seen write like that is Biggie. I definitely feel like the spirit of Big got up in him on this album.

[Nas] also mentioned that the LP is two weeks from completion, and will feature production by DJ Toomp, Diddy, Jermaine Dupri, and long-time collaborator Salaam Remi who was behind “Made You Look” and “Thief’s Theme.”