After beforehand having a viral stare-down with Sean “Diddy” Combs on The Four: Battle for Stardom, a recording artist and leisure character is detailing how he turned a actuality TV meme and confronted off with “the satan.”
Elijah Connor has introduced his memoir, Behind the Stare: The Price I Paid for Standing My Ground, set for launch Feb. 10, 2026, by way of Penguin Light Publishing. The guide guarantees an unfiltered account of the viral confrontation in The Four: Battle for Stardom, wherein Connor’s extended, silent stare-down with decide Sean “Diddy” Combs turned an immediate web obsession.
“For years, everybody has replayed that second: the stare, the silence, the smirk,” Connor wrote on Instagram whereas asserting the guide. “But what you noticed on TV was just one second of a a lot larger story… a narrative I’ve by no means informed publicly.”
While the clip lives on as a well-liked meme, Connor says in Behind the Stare that there was skilled fallout that adopted from his refusal to again down.
“This wasn’t about ego. It wasn’t a couple of viral clip,” Connor shared. “It was about standing my floor in a room the place most individuals fold.”
According to Connor, the expertise “price me sleep, peace, alternatives… and nearly broke me.” The memoir explores what he describes as “the facility, the stress, the manipulation, the reality — and the worth I paid for refusing to bow.”
Raised in Detroit and the youthful cousin of the late Prince, Connor credit his household’s musical lineage with shaping his sense of id and resolve, qualities he says have been examined within the aftermath of the televised confrontation.
The tome comes after Connor just lately sat down with Pastor Jamal Bryant on his podcast and known as Diddy “the satan” whereas reflecting on the incarcerated Bad Boy mogul.
“Diddy’s the satan,” stated Connor. “It’s a declaration. I’m standing on it. it’s positively a spirit—once you’ve been working for therefore lengthy, considering that you simply’re simply invincible with energy and you may simply do no matter. You need to deal with them [people] any type of means in addition to attempt to blackball individuals simply from them not coming to one in every of your occasions–behind the stare.”
“He tried to interrupt me,” he added.
Elijah Connor’s Behind The Stare will likely be accessible in hardcover, book, and a restricted deluxe collector’s version on February 10, 2026.
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