Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was pictured smoking a cigarette in his native Miami after  breaking his silence with an apology clip after a shocking clip of him beating up his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura surfaced this week.

The 54-year-old rapper was clad in a white fisherman’s hat with a white T-shirt and shorts and black sandals while out on a walk after posting an apology to social media.

He wore a necklace with the image of his late father Melvin Combs, who was fatally shot at the age of 33 in New York City, posing next to a child. Combs in October of 2013 took to Instagram to detail the death of his father for the first time in conjunction with a Revolt TV project he’d been working on.

In a preview clip for the TV special, the musical artist explained how he squared his own life with the one his father led.

‘My father was killed when I was 3 years old,’ he said. ‘My father was a hustler. He was a drug dealer. He was a hustler. So I learned early in life there’s only two ways out of that, dead or in jail. It made me work even harder.’

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was pictured smoking a cigarette in his native Miami after breaking his silence after shocking video of him beating up his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura surfaced this week

In the aforementioned 2013 clip, Diddy said he didn’t ‘have a lot of memories’ of his late father and missed him and his presence as he was growing up, as he needed ‘to have someone to ask manly advice and just things that you would ask your father.’

Diddy said he also missed celebrating milestones with his father ‘that would make him proud.’

Diddy said he thinks his late father ‘played a role in’ his hustle en route to success and international stardom.

‘I think that even if we don’t know our parents, we still have their DNA in us,’ he said. ‘We have their genes. I have his hustler mentality, his hustler spirit, his drive, his determination. His swag. He’s gonna be on my mind a lot today. My father’s name was Melvin Combs and I’m Melvin’s son, Sean Combs.’

Diddy was seen out after he took to Instagram on Sunday morning to apologize, saying: ‘I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses.’

Looking into the camera, Diddy said: ‘So difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, sometimes you got to do that. I was f***ed up.

‘I mean I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses, my behavior in that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video, I’m disgusted.

He continued: ‘I was disgusted then when I did it, I am disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help, I got into going to therapy, going to rehab.

He wore a necklace with the image of his late father Melvin Combs, who was fatally shot at the age of 33 in New York City, posing next to a child

Combs in October of 2013 took to Instagram to detail the death of his father for the first time in conjunction with a Revolt TV project he’d been working on

Diddy said of his late father, ‘I learned early in life there’s only two ways out of that, dead or in jail. It made me work even harder’