• Kid Cudi is soon expected to testify in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial.
• The rapper may take the witness stand as soon as Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors say.
• Kid Cudi's 2011 affair with R&B singer Cassie Ventura provoked violent rages from Combs, prosecutors allege.

Rapper Kid Cudi is expected to testify as a government witness in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal sex-trafficking trial this week.

Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, may take the witness stand as soon as Wednesday in the Manhattan federal courtroom where the trial is underway.

The "Pursuit of Happiness" rapper briefly dated R&B singer Cassie Ventura, the prosecution's star witness who testified for more than 20 hours last week in the hip-hop mogul's trial.

While on the stand, Ventura testified that the 2011 relationship sent Combs into a violent rage.

She told the eight-man, four-woman jury that Combs threatened to blow up Kid Cudi's car when they were out of the country.

Prosecutors allege that the threat was not an empty one.

The rival's convertible was allegedly firebombed by Combs' underlings using a Molotov cocktail — an arson that Kid Cudi will likely be asked about on the stand.

"Sean wanted Scott's friends to be there to see the car get blown up in the driveway," Ventura testified.

Ventura's 2023 now-settled lawsuit against Combs first suggested that Combs was responsible for the 2012 firebombing.

In addition to the sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges against Combs, prosecutors have accused him and his associates of several other crimes, including arson.

Prosecutors have alleged in court papers that Combs ordered his underlings to torch a vehicle "by slicing open the car's convertible top and dropping a Molotov cocktail inside the interior."

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