Receiving a key to a city is the ultimate accolade for many rap stars, and Combs’s key ring was the lyrical equivalent of the infinity stone gauntlet

Now that Sean “Diddy” Combs has become persona non grata, his hometown is officially locking him out.

Last fall Eric Adams presented the hip-hop impresario with an honorary key to New York City in a splashy Times Square ceremony that doubled as a showcase for each man’s unbidden bravado. “The bad boy of entertainment is getting the key to the city from the bad boy of politics,” declared the New York mayor, who could be observed making a heart hand with Combs while posing the commemorative placard.