Blueface‘s features may have taken on a purple glow after he let Ryan Garcia punch him … because he was having some trouble breathing in a wild new vid.

The boxer livestreamed his hang with the rapper Friday night … and, just 15 minutes into the stream, the duo engaged in an age-old guy tradition — one dude punching another as hard as possible.

Blueface asked if Garcia wanted to throw a haymaker at him … and Garcia accepted — though BF wore protective gear over his stomach to lessen the blow.

The two then lined up across from one another. Blueface pulled up his arms and Garcia uncorked a vicious blow to his side … which didn’t knock Blue down, but certainly put him out of commission for a couple of minutes.

Blueface, doubled over in pain, told the crew to cut the camera … and, he certainly didn’t want to try a second punch. He still sat around and hung out with the boys after withstanding the brutal beating, though.

BTW … if you don’t recognize Ryan in this clip, it’s probably because of the face tattoos. They appear to be temporary tats he got in honor of Blue which match the rapper’s own.

We’ve got shocking new details regarding the potential origins of the apartment fire that sent soul singer and former Prince collaborator Alexander O’Neal to the hospital early Friday morning.

The musician’s wife, Cynthia, tells TMZ … she recalls being woken up to Alexander frantically alerting her about a fire “with his arms in the air,” which is when she noticed “a bubble of fire” in the cord attached to his oxygen machine. He was on oxygen because he had just been released from the ICU hours before, following a nearly 2-week stay.

Cynthia says she noticed a separate fire on the floor that Alexander had tried stomping out with his bare foot and burned himself doing so. That blaze grew to the mattress, and that’s when they decided to leave their residence and call 911.

We told you all about the catastrophe … Cynthia and Alexander — who was tapped as the lead singer of Prince’s band The Time in 1980 before ultimately being let go — were both hospitalized as a result of the violent blaze that sprang up just after 1 AM. Cynthia tells us she was released swiftly, while Alexander was kept longer as tests were run on his lungs.

Cynthia recalls returning to their apartment complex in Burnsville, Minnesota for Alexander’s various medications to see the place totally destroyed and the bottles melted. She tells TMZ … “The whole place is totally demolished. There was nothing left. There was water up to my ankles.”

A rep for the city confirmed to TMZ the fire destroyed 4 units, making them unlivable. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Alexander was released from the hospital later on Friday, and they are now both seeking refuge at a family member’s home as they plan their next move. Cindy has stayed positive about the devastating experience, noting … “We are so happy to be alive. We may not have a toothbrush, but we have a car! Our spirits remain good and we are moving forward.”

Diddy is furious at Netflix for dropping the 50 Cent documentary on his legal troubles, but some of the video shot at Diddy’s behest almost certainly has his criminal defense lawyer enraged.

There’s a video in the doc shot by a guy Diddy hired to chronicle his life … where he’s talking to his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, about his impending arrest. Diddy is enraged at Agnifilo and the entire legal team, barking that they’re losing the case.

Diddy has fired off a demand letter to Netflix, claiming the streamer is screwing him over by releasing a video that Diddy — not the videographer — owned. But here’s the deal. There’s a true victim in all of this — the man who won the criminal case for Diddy — Marc Agnifilo. We’re told he did not know Diddy had someone recording their conversation when they spoke on the phone.

Harvey asked Diddy’s longtime lawyer, Mark Geragos, about this in the latest episode of “2 Angry Men,” and Mark went this far — if he was on the other end of the phone and found out his client was secretly recording their conversation, well … he’d be one angry man.