Bad Diddy is a mama’s Boy.

Was Diddy playing things . . . cautiously . . . in the months before his arrest?

Page Six has learned that the rap mogul did a paid appearance at a Miami club in 2023 — but had the club pay the $100,000 fee in cash . . . to a company named after his then-84-year-old mother, Janice Combs.

The Bad Boy mogul appeared at the M2 nightclub for a “kickoff party” for Race Week, as part of the festivities around the Miami round of the Formula 1 car racing championship, on May 4 of that year.

On May 1, organizers got a contract stipulating that the “one hundred thousand US dollars” appearance fee should be made in two installments and that “all payments shall be made via cash pursuant to . . . written directions.”

Meanwhile, the contract was made with “Janice Combs Music Holdings Inc.”

The “I’ll Be Missing You” singer’s home was raided by the FBI less than a year later in March 2024, and at the time, he was facing a number of civil suits seeking hefty damages.

Needless to say, he was soon on the stand in one of the most heavily covered celebrity trials of all time.

In September 2024, Diddy was indicted in federal court on charges including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.

In July 2025, a jury found him not guilty of those first two charges but guilty on two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution.

He was sentenced to four years and two months in prison, and he was given a $500,000 fine and five years of supervised release.

Diddy is now serving his sentence in Fort Dix, NJ, and he settled several of the civil suits against him, including one filed by ex Cassie Ventura for a reported $20 million.

A rep for Diddy didn’t respond to our request for comment.