A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs protested the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday after Combs and the public were excluded from arguments over whether another famous rapper's name could be disclosed.

An attorney for “Diddy,” Teny Geragos, shed more light on the rapper’s identity, referring to them as “iconic” and “very close to Mr. Combs.”