Method Man Speaks On Whether Diddy's Demise Will Damage The Culture

Puff Daddy was as big a force in Hip Hop history as there's ever been.

He's also been exposed as a violent sex pest who may end up locked up for the rest of his life.

TMZ asked The Diddler's NYC contemporary Method Man if the crimes of Puff damaged the rap game and perhaps even spelled "the end of Hip Hop."

He said they didn't.

"I don't think that it has anything to do with hip hop. What are we talking about here, really," he said.  "It has nothing to do with hip hop at all so I don't see the correlation. If we're talking about music and creative and stuff," Meth noted. "There are people still listening to R. Kelly sh*t."